Recent sensory experience affects both perception and the response properties of visual
neurons. Here I review a rapid form of experience-dependent plasticity that follows …

How an object is perceived depends on the temporal context in which it is encountered.
Sensory signals in the brain also depend on temporal context, a phenomenon often referred …

The firing rate responses of neurons in the primary visual cortex grow with stimulus contrast,
the variation in the luminance of an image relative to the mean luminance. These responses …

The cellular mechanisms of spike-frequency adaptation during prolonged discharges and of
the slow afterhyperpolarization (AHP) that follows, as occur in vivo with contrast adaptation …

Prior exposure to a moving grating of high contrast led to a substantial and persistent
reduction in the contrast sensitivity of neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of …

Contrast adaptation is a psychophysical phenomenon, the neuronal bases of which reside
largely in the primary visual cortex. The cellular mechanisms of contrast adaptation were …

Visual adaptation to temporal contrast (intensity modulation of a spatially uniform, randomly
flickering stimulus) was examined in simultaneously recorded ensembles of retinal ganglion …

The responses of neurons in lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) exhibit powerful suppressive
phenomena such as contrast saturation, size tuning, and masking. These phenomena …

Neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) are thought to receive inhibition from other V1 neurons
selective for a variety of orientations. Evidence for this inhibition is commonly found in cross …

The human visual system can distinguish variations in image contrast over a much larger
range than measurements of the static relationship between contrast and response in visual …