Brain maps, great and small: lessons from comparative studies of primate visual cortical organization

MGP Rosa, R Tweedale - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In this paper, we review evidence from comparative studies of primate cortical organization,
highlighting recent findings and hypotheses that may help us to understand the rules …

Differentially synchronized spiking enables multiplexed neural coding

M Lankarany, D Al-Basha, S Ratté… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Multiplexing refers to the simultaneous encoding of two or more signals. Neurons have been
shown to multiplex, but different stimuli require different multiplexing strategies. Whereas the …

Selective block of conduction in Y optic nerve fibres: significance for the concept of parallel processing

Burke, Dreher, Wang - European Journal of Neuroscience, 1998 - search.ebscohost.com
MINI-REVIEW Selective block of conduction in Y optic nerve fibres: significance for the concept
of parallel processing Page 1 European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 10, pp. 8–19, 1998 © …

Contrast dependency of VEPs as a function of spatial frequency: the parvocellular and magnocellular contributions to human VEPs.

D Ellemberg, B Hammarrenger, F Lepore, MS Roy… - Spatial …, 2001 - europepmc.org
The present study investigated the contrast dependency of visual evoked potentials (VEPs)
elicited by phase reversing sine wave gratings of varying spatial frequency. Sixty-five trials …

Modulatory influence of feedback projections from area 21a on neuronal activities in striate cortex of the cat

C Wang, WJ Waleszczyk, W Burke, B Dreher - Cerebral Cortex, 2000 - academic.oup.com
We have examined the influence of 'feedback'projections from extrastriate visual cortical
area 21a on the responses of neurons in area 17 of the cat, by cooling area 21a to 5–10° C …

All developmental dyslexic subtypes display an elevated motion coherence threshold

WH RIDDER III, E Borsting… - Optometry and Vision …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Purpose. Psychophysical studies indicate that many dyslexics have a motion-processing
deficit. The purpose of this study was to determine whether elevated motion coherence …

The evolution of subcortical pathways to the extrastriate cortex

MKL Baldwin, JA Bourne - Evolutionary neuroscience, 2020 - Elsevier
There are multiple routes for visual information to reach the neocortex from the retina. The
most well studied are those that pass through the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus …

Melanopsin-mediated amplification of cone signals in the human visual cortex

P Adhikari, S Uprety, B Feigl… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The ambient daylight variation is coded by melanopsin photoreceptors and their luxotonic
activity increases towards midday when colour temperatures are cooler, and irradiances are …

Motion sensitivity in cat's superior colliculus: contribution of different visual processing channels to response properties of collicular neurons

W Waleszczyk, C Wang, G Benedek, W Burke… - Acta neurobiologiae …, 2004 - ane.pl
It is well established that neurons in the retinorecipient layers of superior colliculus (SC), the
mammalian homologue of the optic tectum of other vertebrates, are extremely sensitive to …

The effects of reversible inactivation of postero-temporal visual cortex on neuronal activities in cat's area 17

JY Huang, C Wang, B Dreher - Brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
'Spontaneous' and visually evoked action potentials were recorded from single neurons in
cytoarchitectonic area 17 (striate cortex, area V1) of anaesthetized and immobilized cats …