There are declines with age in speed of processing, working memory, inhibitory function,
and long-term memory, as well as decreases in brain structure size and white matter …

Retinal degeneration, a leading cause of blindness worldwide, is primarily characterized by
the dysfunctional/degenerated photoreceptors that impair the ability of the retina to detect …

Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

The visual cortex has the capacity for experience-dependent change, or cortical plasticity,
that is retained throughout life. Plasticity is invoked for encoding information during …

Hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) provides a theoretical framework that models several
key computational principles of the neocortex. In this paper we analyze an important …

Filling-in is a perceptual phenomenon in which a visual attribute such as colour, brightness,
texture or motion is perceived in a region of the visual field even though such an attribute …

The objective of this review is to examine and evaluate recent findings on cognitive
functioning (in particular imagery processes) in individuals with congenital visual …

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare hereditary retinal degeneration caused by
mutations in more than a dozen genes. RPE65, one of these mutated genes, is highly …

In this review, we summarize recent evidence that perceptual learning can occur not only
under training conditions but also in situations of unattended and passive sensory …

The occipital lobe contains retinotopic representations of the visual field. The representation
of the central retina in early visual areas (V1–3) is found at the occipital pole. When the …