Many behaviours that are critical for animals to survive and thrive rely on spatial navigation.
Spatial navigation, in turn, relies on internal representations about one's spatial location …

Segmentation, the computation of object boundaries, is one of the most important steps in
intermediate visual processing. Previous studies have reported cells across visual cortex …

Recent reports of the lack of periodic orientation columns in a very large rodent species, the
red-rumped agouti, and the existence of incompressible hypercolumns in the lineage of …

Object detection is an essential function of the visual system. Although the visual cortex
plays an important role in object detection, the superior colliculus can support detection …

How the activity of neurons gives rise to natural vision remains a matter of intense
investigation. The mid-level visual areas along the ventral stream are selective to a common …

Interactions between feedback connections from higher cortical areas and local horizontal
connections within primary visual cortex (V1) were shown to play a role in contextual …

Luminance and spatial contrast provide information on the surfaces and edges of objects.
We investigated neural responses to black and white surfaces in the primary visual cortex …

It is widely accepted that there is an inextricable link between neural computations,
biological mechanisms, and behavior, but it is challenging to simultaneously relate all three …

Scientists have long conjectured that the neocortex learns the structure of the environment in
a predictive, hierarchical manner. Under this hypothesis, the brain compares incoming …

Figure-ground segmentation is a fundamental process in visual perception that involves
separating visual stimuli into distinct meaningful objects and their surrounding context, thus …