Adaptation is fundamental to life. All organisms adapt over timescales that span from
evolution to generations and lifetimes to moment-by-moment interactions. The nervous …

Understanding the relationship between changes in sensory perception and
functional/structural changes in the brain is a major endeavor in the field of systems …

When a visual stimulus is repeated, average neuronal responses typically decrease, yet
they might maintain or even increase their impact through increased synchronization …

Extraclassical surround suppression is a prominent receptive field property of neurons in the
lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the dorsal thalamus, influencing stimulus size tuning …

The thalamocortical (TC) relay neuron of the dorsoLateral Geniculate Nucleus (dLGN) has
borne its imprecise label for many decades in spite of strong evidence that its role in visual …

Many controlled in vitro studies have demonstrated how postsynaptic responses to
presynaptic spikes are not constant but depend on short-term synaptic plasticity (STP) and …

Of the five human senses, vision is said to account for 80% of the information acquired. The
presentation of light is an effective way to convey visual information. A blinking presentation …

Brain possesses a complex spatiotemporal architecture for efficient information processing
and computing. However, it remains unknown how neural signal propagates to its intended …

We present an extensive review of the repetition effect aiming to understand a simple
experimental fact: why the repetition of a stimulus leads to reduced neural activity as …

This dissertation highlights unique aspects of the LGN for visual processing in the hopes to
reframe the traditional view that the LGN is simply a relay center between the retina and …