We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

A dominant view in the cognitive neuroscience of object vision is that regions of the ventral
visual pathway exhibit some degree of category selectivity. However, recent findings …

Quantitative modeling of human brain activity can provide crucial insights about cortical
representations [1, 2] and can form the basis for brain decoding devices [3–5]. Recent …

The adult primate visual system comprises a series of hierarchically organized areas. Each
cortical area contains a topographic map of visual space, with different areas extracting …

Deep neural networks (DNNs) optimized for visual tasks learn representations that align
layer depth with the hierarchy of visual areas in the primate brain. One interpretation of this …

The relationship between mental imagery and vision is a long-standing problem in
neuroscience. Currently, it is not known whether differences between the activity evoked …

Defining the exact mechanisms by which the brain processes visual objects and scenes
remains an unresolved challenge. Valuable clues to this process have emerged from the …

Neocortical gamma activity has long been hypothesized as a mechanism for synchronizing
brain regions to support visual perception and cognition more broadly. Although early …

Sensory deprivation during the post-natal 'critical period'leads to structural reorganization of
the developing visual cortex. In adulthood, the visual cortex retains some flexibility and …

Vision develops rapidly during infancy, yet how visual cortex is organized during this period
is unclear. In particular, it is unknown whether functional maps that organize the mature …