A fundamental goal of sensory neuroscience is to understand how stimulus features are
encoded by neuronal populations as information arrives from the periphery and travels …

Human and macaque observers can detect and discriminate visual forms defined by
differences in texture. The neurophysiological correlates of visual texture perception are not …

Texture is an important visual attribute for surface pattern discrimination and therefore object
segmentation, but the neural bases of texture perception are largely unknown. Previously …

Complex shape and texture representations are known to be constructed from V1 along the
ventral visual pathway through areas V2 and V4, but the underlying mechanism remains …

Neural circuits in the periphery of the visual, auditory, and olfactory systems are believed to
use limited resources efficiently to represent sensory information by adapting to the …

Midlevel features, such as contour and texture, provide a computational link between low-
and high-level visual representations. Although the nature of midlevel representations in the …

As information propagates along the ventral visual hierarchy, neuronal responses become
both more specific for particular image features and more tolerant of image transformations …

Most single units recorded from macaque secondary visual cortex (V2) respond with higher
firing rates to synthetic texture images containing “naturalistic” higher-order statistics than to …

Visual textures are a class of stimuli with properties that make them well suited for
addressing general questions about visual function at the levels of behavior and neural …

To determine visual areas of the human brain involved in elementary form processing,
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to measure regional responses to …