Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

Surround modulation (SM) is a fundamental property of sensory neurons in many species
and sensory modalities. SM is the ability of stimuli in the surround of a neuron's receptive …

The small visual area known as MT or V5 has played a major role in our understanding of
the primate cerebral cortex. This area has been historically important in the concept of …

Aims and Scope This book is both an introductory textbook and a research monograph on
modeling the statistical structure of natural images. In very simple terms,“natural images” are …

Three classes of perceptual phenomena have repeatedly been associated with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD): superior processing of fine detail (local structure), either inferior …

Typical natural visual scenes contain many objects, which need to be segregated from each
other and from the background. Present theories subdivide the processes responsible for …

Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary
visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long …

Practicing certain visual tasks leads, as a result of a process termed “perceptual learning,” to
a significant improvement in performance. Learning is specific for basic stimulus features …

Singer, 1994). The basis for this argument is that it is necessary to “tag” each visual neuron
to signify the object to which its activity relates. Each neuron therefore has to carry two …

A fundamental task of vision is to group the image elements that belong to one object and to
segregate them from other objects and the background. This review provides a conceptual …