150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa

HF Lamb, CR Bates, CL Bryant, SJ Davies, DG Huws… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Climatic change is widely acknowledged to have played a role in the dispersal of modern
humans out of Africa, but the timing is contentious. Genetic evidence links dispersal to …

“What not” detectors help the brain see in depth

NR Goncalves, AE Welchman - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Binocular stereopsis is one of the primary cues for three-dimensional (3D) vision in species
ranging from insects to primates. Understanding how the brain extracts depth from two …

Modelling binocular disparity processing from statistics in natural scenes

T Chauhan, Y Héjja-Brichard, BR Cottereau - Vision Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The statistics of our environment impact not only our behavior, but also the selectivity and
connectivity of the early sensory cortices. Over the last fifty years, powerful theories such as …

A dataset of stereoscopic images and ground-truth disparity mimicking human fixations in peripersonal space

A Canessa, A Gibaldi, M Chessa, M Fato, F Solari… - Scientific data, 2017 - nature.com
Binocular stereopsis is the ability of a visual system, belonging to a live being or a machine,
to interpret the different visual information deriving from two eyes/cameras for depth …

Visual perception: Neural networks for stereopsis

JCA Read, BG Cumming - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
How does our brain use differences between the images in our two eyes, binocular
disparities, to generate depth perception? New work shows that a type of neural network …

3D contrast image reconstruction from human brain activity

H Zheng, L Yao, M Chen, Z Long - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Several studies demonstrated that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals in
early visual cortex can be used to reconstruct 2-dimensional (2D) visual contents. However …

The effect of image position on the Independent Components of natural binocular images

DW Hunter, PB Hibbard - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Human visual performance degrades substantially as the angular distance from the fovea
increases. This decrease in performance is found for both binocular and monocular vision …

Neural computation of depth from binocular disparity

N Reis Goncalves - 2018 - repository.cam.ac.uk
Stereopsis is a par excellence demonstration of the computational power that neural
systems can encapsulate. How is the brain capable of swiftly transforming a stream of …

An integrated system based on binocular learned receptive fields for saccade-vergence on visually salient targets

D Re, A Gibaldi, SP Sabatini… - … Conference on Computer …, 2017 - scitepress.org
The human visual system uses saccadic and vergence eyes movements to foveate
interesting objects with both eyes, and thus exploring the visual scene. To mimic this …