Incoming sensory information is sent to the brain along modality-specific channels
corresponding to the five senses. Each of these channels further parses the incoming …

The small visual area known as MT or V5 has played a major role in our understanding of
the primate cerebral cortex. This area has been historically important in the concept of …

This article is about how the brain data mines its sensory inputs. There are several
architectural principles of functional brain anatomy that have emerged from careful anatomic …

Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary
visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long …

This year, the field of neuroscience celebrates the 50th anniversary of Mountcastle's
discovery of the cortical column. In this review, we summarize half a century of research and …

Our visual system can process information at both conscious and unconscious levels.
Understanding the factors that control whether a stimulus reaches our awareness, and the …

Current hypotheses that use visually guided reaching and grasping to explain orbital
convergence, visual specialization, and brain expansion in primates are open to question …

A central question in visual neuroscience is what circuits generate the responses of neurons
in the primary visual cortex (V1). V1 neurons respond best to oriented stimuli of optimal size …

The perception of colour is a central component of primate vision. Colour facilitates object
perception and recognition, and has an important role in scene segmentation and visual …

Primary and secondary visual cortex (V1 and V2) form the foundation of the cortical visual
system. V1 transforms information received from the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and …