• Although landscape videos engaged a greater expanse of high-level visual cortex compared to that observed for images of landscapes, independently localized category-selective visual regions (e.g., scene-selective parahippocampal place area and motion-selective hMT+) were not significantly modulated by aesthetic appeal. (maxplanckneuroscience.org)
  • These findings suggest that aesthetic appeal per se is not represented in well-characterized feature- and category-selective regions of visual cortex. (maxplanckneuroscience.org)
  • Here, we performed two-photon population calcium imaging in L2/3 primary visual cortex (V1) of headfixed mice performing a visual detection task while simultaneously activating specific groups of neurons using targeted two-photon optogenetics during low contrast visual stimulation. (biorxiv.org)
  • Selective deficit of mental visual imagery with intact primary visual cortex and visual perception. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There is a vigorous debate as to whether visual perception and imagery share the same neuronal networks, whether the primary visual cortex is necessarily involved in visual imagery, and whether visual imagery functions are lateralized in the brain. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In both patients the calcarine cortex with the primary visual area was bilaterally intact. (ox.ac.uk)
  • ii) visual imagery deficits can occur when the primary visual cortex is intact and (iii) the left temporal lobe plays an important role in visual mental imagery. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Damage to a part of the brain that processes visual information-the inferotemporal (IT) cortex-can be devastating, especially for adults. (medicalxpress.com)
  • Specifically, we propose to use two-photon calcium imaging to recognize single neurons with particular functional properties in mouse visual cortex and accurately identify their location within the network. (europa.eu)
  • Mangun, G.R. and Fannon, S.P. (2007) Attention: Control in the Visual Cortex. (scirp.org)
  • The visual system includes the eyes, connecting pathways through to the visual cortex, and other parts of the brain (see the image below). (medscape.com)
  • From the LGN, the signals continue to the primary visual cortex, where further visual processing takes place. (medscape.com)
  • The eye has many features of a camera, beginning with the cornea and ending with the occipital (visual) cortex. (medscape.com)
  • The unusual case of a man who regained his sight after 40 years of blindness allows researchers to examine the neural and behavioral effects of losing visual experience on the establishment and maintenance of visual system function in humans. (nature.com)
  • In the primate, researchers have argued from both behavioral and neural evidence that a key step in visual representation is 'figure-ground segmentation', the delineation of figures as distinct from backgrounds. (elifesciences.org)
  • Developmental cognitive neuroscience 2018 6 34 7-17. (cdc.gov)
  • In this article, we show that visual distance perception (VDP) is influenced by the auditory environmental context through reverberation-related cues. (nature.com)
  • Results of both experiments show that the auditory environment can influence VDP, presumably through reverberation cues related to the perception of room size. (nature.com)
  • Two patients with brain damage from closed head injury were submitted to tests of mental imagery in the visual, tactile, auditory, gustatory, olfactory and motor domains, as well as to an extensive testing of cognitive functions. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Visual mechanisms for voice‐identity recognition flexibly adjust to auditory noise level. (mpg.de)
  • Visual mechanisms in the face-sensitive posterior superior temporal sulcus facilitate auditory-only speaker recognition in high levels of auditory noise. (mpg.de)
  • Here, we show that in noisy conditions the visual face processing network responds in a remarkably adaptive manner to support auditory voice-identity processing, even when no face input is available. (tu-dresden.de)
  • Congruent visual information enhances auditory speech perception. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • This visual benefit has been widely observed in perception of segments and linked to reduced amplitudes and latencies of auditory N1 and P2 event-related potential (ERP) components when visual information was present. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Anil Seth, professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at University of Sussex, will visit Lund University in May to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. (lu.se)
  • I have PhDs in Biological Cybernetics (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and Neuroscience (Experimental Psychology, USP, Brazil). (kingston.ac.uk)
  • You can provide housing and support … and authorities are doing that in conjunction with the VA," said Michael Green, a UCLA professor of psychiatry and researcher at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. (ucla.edu)
  • Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 61, 142-148. (scirp.org)
  • However, in the laboratory it becomes possible to induce highly inaccurate spatial percepts that may provide insights into the brain mechanisms that underlie the perception of visual space. (jneurosci.org)
  • My studies on perception (motion and spatial vision) were supported by EPSRC and EU2020 Marie Sklodowska Currie grants. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • Electrophysiological data were examined in control adults and adults with ADHD during a cued visual spatial selective attention task where in addition to directing attention, the cue probabilistically predicted the presence of a distractor. (scirp.org)
  • Findings suggest functional visual spatial selective attention in adults with ADHD. (scirp.org)
  • Mangun, G.R. and Hillyard, S.A. (1991) Modulations of Sensory-Evoked Brain Potentials Indicate Changes in Perceptual Processing during Visual-Spatial Priming. (scirp.org)
  • Gabay Y. (2023) Internal Cognitive Load Differentially Influences Acoustic and Lexical Context Effects in Speech Perception: Evidence From a Population With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. (oeaw.ac.at)
  • Such gaze shifts are themselves a source of powerful retinal stimulation, and so the visual system appears to have evolved mechanisms to maintain perceptual stability during movements of the eyes in space. (jneurosci.org)
  • This perisaccadic compression of visual space has been the subject of much research, but few studies have attempted to relate it to specific brain mechanisms. (jneurosci.org)
  • Rather, we propose that the observed activations reflect a local transformation from a feature-based visual representation to a representation of "elemental affect," computed through information-processing mechanisms that detect deviations from an observer's expectations. (maxplanckneuroscience.org)
  • Descriptions of basic visual mechanisms and related clinical abnormalities, by a neuroscientist and an ophthalmologist. (mit.edu)
  • The brain mechanisms underlying such visual-vestibular integration in humans remain, however, elusive. (unil.ch)
  • The rodent visual system has attracted great interest in recent years due to its experimental tractability, but the fundamental mechanisms used by the mouse to represent the visual world remain unclear. (elifesciences.org)
  • With increasing noise level there is a switch in visual mechanisms - the right posterior superior temporal sulcus motion-sensitive face area (pSTS-mFA) is recruited, and interacts with, voice-sensitive regions in the temporal lobe. (tu-dresden.de)
  • Mangun, G. (1995) Neural Mechanisms of Visual Selective Attention. (scirp.org)
  • A radically integrative account of visual perception, grounded in neuroscience but drawing on insights from philosophy and psychology. (mit.edu)
  • Researchers in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences have combined efforts with visual perception experts from Leicester's Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour to shape the study, which will track participants' eye movements when faced with multiple fast-moving hazards simultaneously. (le.ac.uk)
  • Stephen Measures, Project Lead at Synoptix, added: "Synoptix are delighted to have the opportunity to work with both Leicester's School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour on this breakthrough study. (le.ac.uk)
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance , 47 (4), 479-494. (lu.se)
  • Importantly, because our model can be characterized by a simple closed-form expression, it also makes specific predictions about the outcome of future psychophysical experiments and the characteristics of brain structures that might be involved in perceptual estimates of the metrics of visual space. (jneurosci.org)
  • We show that perceptual sensitivity to visual stimuli can be modulated by matches between the contents of working memory (WM) and stimuli in the visual field. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Verbal cues were as effective as visual cues at modulating perceptual identification, and the effects were independent of the effects of target saliency. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2002) 14 (7): 1030-1043. (mit.edu)
  • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002, 1936-1949. (scirp.org)
  • Specifically, we propose that perisaccadic compression is determined by the distance between the probe and saccade end point on a map that has a logarithmic representation of visual space, similar to those found in numerous cortical and subcortical visual structures. (jneurosci.org)
  • Moreover, the behavioural effects depended on overall performance: when the task was challenging for the mouse, V1 activity was more closely linked to performance, and cortical stimulation boosted perception. (biorxiv.org)
  • The Max Planck Society brings together hundreds of neuroscience researchers, equipping them with the best tools and resources to explore some of the most complex issues facing all facets of brain science. (maxplanckneuroscience.org)
  • Today, many researchers all over the world are studying audio-visual perception of viewers from different perspectives. (frontiersin.org)
  • Researchers at the George Washington University have gained important insight into how the human brain processes an object in the visual system and where in the brain this processing takes place. (medicalxpress.com)
  • A team of researchers from UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior will determine whether formerly homeless veterans with brain-based deficits will succeed or fail at integrating back into the community. (ucla.edu)
  • Researchers also used the visual analogue scale to measure pain intensity. (medscape.com)
  • Visual Impairment in Children due to Damage to the Brain: Clinics in Developmental Medicine. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast to other visual aesthetic domains, aesthetically appealing interactions with natural landscapes may rely more heavily on comparisons between ongoing stimulation and well-formed representations of the natural world, and less on top-down processes for resolving ambiguities or assessing self-relevance. (maxplanckneuroscience.org)
  • Here we studied the spatiotemporal brain dynamics underlying the modulation of visual evoked potentials by natural vestibular stimulation, induced by passive whole-body yaw rotation. (unil.ch)
  • In this issue, a thorough characterization of such a subject shows that he had instant sight for identification of simple shapes like a circle or triangle, with interesting abnormalities and a need for learning about more complicated visual objects, and almost completely spared motion perception. (nature.com)
  • Accurate self-motion perception critically depends on the integration of visual and vestibular signals. (unil.ch)
  • Enhanced visual motion perception in major depressive disorder. (bvsalud.org)
  • Under this assumption, the psychophysical data on perisaccadic compression can be appreciated intuitively by imagining that, around the time of a saccade, the brain confounds nearby oculomotor and sensory signals while attempting to localize the position of objects in visual space. (jneurosci.org)
  • Although we watch media content constantly, very little is known about how brain manages the perception of this type of content. (frontiersin.org)
  • and it would also be of great interest for clinical purposes, since learning the correlations of audio-visual content and brain behaviour could inspire to new insights. (frontiersin.org)
  • Brain Connectomics is a developing eld in neuroscience which strives to understand cognitive processes and psychiatric diseases through the analysis of interactions between brain regions. (stanford.edu)
  • Visual search results from adaptive psychophysical procedures are reported from 12 healthy individuals and 23 individuals with unilateral brain injury. (cambridge.org)
  • The existence of this adaptable audio-visual network helps explain how the brain maintains robust perception in challenging conditions. (tu-dresden.de)
  • Comparing AI and human performance in this way will help us understand how the human brain identifies and weights visual information so that we can safely navigate the world around us. (le.ac.uk)
  • European Journal of Neuroscience, 56(7), 5047-5069. (sussex.ac.uk)
  • The Journal of Neuroscience, 29 (28), 9072-9077. (bvsalud.org)
  • In patients, psychophysical outcomes (as well as those from standard paper-and-pencil search tasks) reveal visual hemispatial neglect. (cambridge.org)
  • it remains unclear to what extent the two species share more abstract representations of visual objects and scenes. (elifesciences.org)
  • Working directly with faculty P.I.s, the Ph.D. students in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program engage in cutting edge research, tackling grand challenges from different angles. (udel.edu)
  • Understanding how neural activity corresponds to visual perception has been a milestone question in neuroscience research. (europa.eu)
  • My current research interests are linked to emotional responses to the environment and the role of imagination and prosocial traits in art perception and well-being. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • My lab is open to new and exciting research proposals linked to visual perception, vision, and mental imagery. (kingston.ac.uk)
  • A glance back on 50 years of research in perception. (mpg.de)
  • The Division for Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University conducts research about older, modern and contemporary art, from historical, social and aesthetic angles of approach. (lu.se)
  • In Lund, as internationally, the growing link between Art History and Visual Studies has made the research less disciplinary isolated, while the awareness of the disciplinary identity has been strengthened. (lu.se)
  • Only activation of groups of cells with similar tuning to the relevant visual stimulus led to a measurable bias of detection behaviour. (biorxiv.org)
  • In this line, recent studies have shown that, even in the presence of multiple visual cues, VDP can be influenced by the visual environmental context. (nature.com)
  • It is believed that the study is the first of its kind in comparing humans and AI for the task of 'visual census' in this way. (le.ac.uk)
  • In the beginning of May, he visits Lund University and Neuroscience Day to give this year's prestigious Segerfalk lecture. (lu.se)
  • Dorsal‐movement and ventral‐form regions are functionally connected during visual‐speech recognition. (mpg.de)
  • Working memory enhances visual perception: evidence from signal detection analysis. (ox.ac.uk)
  • One patient showed pure visual mental imagery deficits in the absence of imagery deficits in other sensory domains as well as in the motor domain, while the other patient showed both visual and tactile imagery deficits. (ox.ac.uk)
  • At the clinical level, I am interested on how emotions, perception, and mental imagery are affected by neurocognitive and physical constraints (e.g., muscular dystrophy, dementia). (kingston.ac.uk)
  • Navalpakkam, V. and Itti, L. (2007) Article Search Goal Tunes Visual Features Optimally. (scirp.org)
  • When a highly salient distractor is present in a search array, it speeds target absent visual search and increases errors during target present visual search, suggesting lowered quitting thresholds (Moher in Psychol Sci 31(1):31-42, 2020). (bvsalud.org)
  • Visual search can be disrupted by irrelevant salient stimuli. (bvsalud.org)
  • This question is theoretically important given the low visual saliency of lexical tones. (bournemouth.ac.uk)
  • Although many studies have shed light on how perception corresponds to neural activity, a causal relationship between the occurrence of particular neural events and the perception of sensory stimuli has yet to be established. (europa.eu)
  • Handy, T.C. and Khoe, W. (2005) Attention and Sensory Gain Control: A Peripheral Visual Process? (scirp.org)
  • During aesthetically appealing visual experiences, visual content provides a basis for computation of affectively tinged representations of aesthetic value. (maxplanckneuroscience.org)
  • By learning about viewers' perception, better (more effective, more understandable) audio-visual content could be made. (frontiersin.org)
  • Gluten neuropathy is common and can be painful, but a gluten-free diet can reduce this pain," lead author, Panagiotis Zis, consultant neurologist/honorary senior lecturer, Academic Department of Neurosciences, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Sheffield, United Kingdom, told Medscape Medical News . (medscape.com)