Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Speed judgments during smooth pursuit reflect low gain efference copy

The paper investigates how efference copy affects motion perception during smooth pursuit by analyzing perceptual and oculomotor responses to speed perturbations.

Direct cortical feedforward and feedback pathways differentially shape visual responses and selectively engage looped circuits

The paper examines how feedforward and feedback pathways between mouse V1 and PM modulate visual responses, showing distinct functional roles in recurrent cortical loops.

Torsion in motion: the visual system as a three-axis gimbal

This study estimates eye torsion during walking using head-mounted technology and shows its role in altering retinal flow for self-motion parameter extraction.

Distinct gradients of cortical architecture capture visual representations and behavior across the lifespan

The paper shows two architectural gradients in human visual cortex that correlate with structural, functional, and behavioral traits across the lifespan.

Macaque Area LIP Reflects Confidence-Dependent Changes in Decision Policy

This study shows that neural activity in macaque lateral intraparietal area (LIP) reflects confidence-dependent changes in decision policy, linking confidence to subsequent decision-making.

Revealing the benefit of eye motion for acuity under emulated cone loss

The paper shows that eye motion compensates for cone loss in vision, maintaining acuity even with significant cone cell reduction.

Area MT carries acceleration information in a quickly and directly decodable representation

The paper shows that acceleration information can be directly decoded from MT neuron activity faster and more accurately than through velocity changes, while MST does not refine this representation.

Species-specific oculomotor control tolerances explain saccadic suppression strength differences between macaques and zebrafish

The paper compares saccadic suppression strength between macaques and zebrafish, showing it reflects differences in sensory and motor noise levels and computational resource allocation.

Cooperative processing of visual threat across collicular pathways

This study investigates how parallel pathways in the superior colliculus cooperate to support visually evoked escape behaviors through cell-type-specific inhibition and functional imaging.

Tree shrews combine panoramic vision with an expanded oculomotor repertoire

This study shows tree shrews, with laterally placed eyes, can control gaze with precise eye movements under head fixation, challenging the idea that panoramic vision limits eye-driven gaze control.

Pre-saccadic suppression and compensatory cortical distortions support predictive visual remapping

The paper presents a framework for predictive visual remapping during saccades, showing how pre-saccadic suppression and recurrent connectivity reduce remapping errors in macaque V2 recordings.

Dynamics of individual visual biases in space and time

The paper investigates spatial and temporal dynamics of visual biases in structure-from-motion stimuli, finding that variations are autocorrelated and not random.

Eye movements enhance stereoscopic 3D vision

This study shows that eye movements are essential for stereopsis, as suppressing their induced disparity changes impairs depth perception.

Walking Produces Oscillations in Orientation and Direction Perception at the Step Rate

The paper investigates whether visual perception tasks oscillate with stride rate during walking, finding performance peaks aligned with specific gait phases.

Perceptual repulsion and decisional attraction in male body serial dependence: a dimensional dissociation in channel architecture

The paper investigates serial dependence in body perception, finding dissociated perceptual repulsion and decisional attraction for male body fat and muscularity judgments.

Reactions to Perceiving Tangible vs Virtual Impossible objects: Investigating Dimensions of Visual Reality

The paper investigates how perception reacts to tangible vs virtual impossible objects, finding that real objects create more surprise and perceptual impact than 2D representations.

Can We Really See the World in Three Dimensions? An Exploratory Study with Finger Alignment Task and Ponzo Illusion

This study investigates depth perception limits using the Ponzo illusion and finger alignment task, finding reduced 3D perception beyond 8 degrees of retinal eccentricity.

Active sensing explains cortical variability and improves visual information

The paper shows fixational eye movements in marmosets significantly contribute to neuronal variability and enhance spatial information in visual cortex.

Stimulus category is associated with conscious access during motion-induced blindness

The paper investigates how stimulus category affects conscious access during motion-induced blindness, finding category-related differences in the temporal dynamics of visibility.

Entering and Exiting Awareness are Asymmetrical: Evidence from tracking Continuous Flash Suppression

This paper introduces a mathematical model to correct for reaction-time-induced overshoot in continuous flash suppression paradigms, revealing asymmetry in thresholds for entering and exiting awareness.

Seeing at Will: Shared Neural Representations of Motion Perception and Intention

The paper shows that intention to perceive motion in ambiguous stimuli pre-activates motion-related neural representations in dorsal visual areas before perception occurs.

Ethological variability shapes the structure and content of sensory population codes

The paper shows that sensory population codes change their statistical structure and content in response to internal and behavioral states, not just external stimuli.

The development of coarse and fine feature tuning in infant visual cortex

This study investigates how infant visual cortex encodes coarse and fine visual features using fMRI and deep neural networks, finding that V1 matures early while extrastriate cortex shows prolonged coarse-feature bias.

Prior visual context accelerates the emergence of object representations

The paper shows that prior visual context shifts the temporal trajectory of object representations, accelerating their emergence and improving object recognition speed.

Rapid alternation of conscious and suppressed stimulus representations in the primate brain

With stimulus and percept fixed, macaque inferotemporal face-patch populations alternate about 15 times per second between states purely representing the conscious or suppressed face; prefrontal cortex shows qualitatively similar interleaving.

Variabilities in the shapes of the receptive fields of simple cells in mice

The paper measures variability in receptive field shapes in mice, finding elongation variability exceeding measurement noise, supporting predictions from higher mammals.

Dynamic interactions between sensory and decision-making circuits shape temporal evidence weighting

The paper investigates how temporal weighting of sensory evidence in decision-making is shaped by interactions between sensory and decision circuits using behavioral, neural, and computational models in macaques.

Foveated metamers of the early visual system

This paper investigates how visual feature representation changes with eccentricity by comparing human perception and models of luminance and spectral energy.

Short-Term Plasticity of Contrast Surround Suppression During Repeated Psychophysical Measurement

This study shows contrast surround suppression changes during repeated psychophysical measurements, with variations based on stimulus and sampling conditions, suggesting rapid reweighting of contextual normalization.

Perceptual similarity representations beyond the sensory cortex

The paper investigates whether perceptual similarity information of color stimuli is represented in association cortex beyond the visual cortex using fMRI and electrophysiological data.