[PDF][PDF] Effects of top-down influence suppression on behavioral and V1 neuronal contrast sensitivity functions in cats

J Ding, Z Ye, F Xu, X Hu, H Yu, S Zhang, Y Tu, Q Zhang… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
To explore the relative contributions of higher-order and primary visual cortex (V1) to visual
perception, we compared cats' behavioral and V1 neuronal contrast sensitivity functions …

New Evidence of Central Nervous System Damage in Diabetes: Impairment of Fine Visual Discrimination

H Chen, M Wang, L Xia, J Dong, G Xu, Z Wang… - Diabetes, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Diabetes can damage both the peripheral sensory organs, causing retinopathy, and the
central visual system, leading to contrast sensitivity and impaired color vision in patients …

[HTML][HTML] Study on the mechanism of visual aging in cats' primary visual cortex based on BDNF-TrkB signal pathway

C Tong, S Cao - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
To explore the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and specific receptor
tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB) in the primary visual cortex of young and old cats …

V1-Origin Bidirectional Plasticity in Visual Thalamo–Ventral Pathway and Its Contribution to Saliency Detection of Dynamic Visual Inputs

S Feng, Z Cui, Z Han, H Li, H Yu - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual neural plasticity and V1 saliency detection are vital for efficient coding of dynamically
changing visual inputs. However, how does neural plasticity contribute to saliency detection …

Neural noise is associated with age-related neural dedifferentiation

RE Pichot, DJ Henreckson, M Foley, JD Koen - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Age-related neural dedifferentiation–reductions in the selectivity and precision of neural
representations–contributes to cognitive aging and is thought to result from age increases in …

The effects of sleep deprivation on visual perception and metacognition

M Bigica - 2022 - orca.cardiff.ac.uk
Sleep serves fundamental functions for the human brain and lack of sleep leads to
impairments in cognitive and behavioural tasks. Yet, the mechanisms that underlie such …