Functional maps arise in developing visual cortex as response selectivities become
organized into columnar patterns of population activity. Recent studies of developing …

Unilateral naris occlusion has long been the method of choice for effecting stimulus
deprivation in studies of olfactory plasticity. A significant body of literature speaks to the …

Perceptual asymmetry is one of the most important characteristics of our visual functioning.
We carefully reviewed the scientific literature in order to examine such asymmetries …

In mammals, a larger number of neurons in V1 are devoted to cardinal (horizontal and
vertical) orientations than to oblique orientations. However, electrophysiological results from …

Visual acuity is better for vertical and horizontal compared to other orientations. This cross-
species phenomenon is often explained by “efficient coding,” whereby more neurons show …

In this, the post-genomic age, our knowledge of biological systems continues to expand and
progress. As the research becomes more focused, so too does the data. Genomic research …

Orientation processing in visual cortex appears matched to the environment, such that larger
neural populations are tuned to cardinal (horizontal/vertical) than oblique orientations. This …

The neural basis of an oblique effect, a reduced visual sensitivity for obliquely oriented
stimuli, has been a matter of considerable debate. We have analyzed the orientation tuning …

Orientation perception is a fundamental property of the visual system and an important basic
processing stage for visual scene perception. Neurophysiological studies have found …

When observers detect an oriented, broadband contrast increment on a background of 1/f
spatial noise, thresholds will be lowest for obliquely orientated stimuli and highest for …