The book you are about to read is about research that asks questions like" How do our
senses operate?"" What is the connection between nervous system activity and perception?" …

Humans are good at performing visual tasks, but experimental measurements have
revealed substantial biases in the perception of basic visual attributes. An appealing …

Functional (f) MRI has revolutionized the field of human brain research. fMRI can
noninvasively map the spatial architecture of brain function via localized increases in blood …

1. Human perceptual learning in discrimination of the oblique orientation was studied using
psychophysical methods. Subjects were trained daily to improve their ability to identify the …

Visual perception critically depends on orientation-specific signals that arise early in visual
processing. Humans show greater behavioral sensitivity to gratings with horizontal or …

The details of oriented visual stimuli are better resolved when they are horizontal or vertical
rather than oblique. This “oblique effect” has been confirmed in numerous behavioral …

The performance of individual neurons in monkey striate cortex has been examined in three
spatial-resolution tasks by making microelectrode recordings from single cells in …

Recent advances in the study of delay differential equations draw attention to the potential
benefits of the interplay between random perturbations ('noise') and delay in neural control …

Line orientation discrimination improves with selective practice for oblique orientations and
not for principal orientations. This training effect was observed with an identification task as …

The invitation by the editors of the series" studies of brain function" to contribute a
monograph on the visual cortex gives me the opportunity to present in a concentrated …