Cortical Mechanisms of Vision

Vision is the most important window of the human brain on the outside world. The predominance of vision over the other sense modalities is well expressed by ... In the visual cortex there is a hierarchy of neurons with in- creasingly complex response properties. The cortical cells that receive signals directly from the ...

Control of Attention Shifts between Vision and …

Nov 26, 1996 ... Repetition suppression appears to be an intrinsic property of visual cortical areas such as inferior temporal cortex and is thought to be important ...

The perception of colour is a central component of primate vision. Colour facilitates object perception and recognition, and has an important role in scene segmentation and visual memory. Moreover, it provides an aesthetic component to visual experiences that is fundamental to our perception of the world. Despite the long history of colour vision studies, much has still to be learned about the HOW DOES BINOCULAR RIVALRY EMERGE FROM CORTICAL …

Brain Mechanisms of Vision - JSTOR Brain Mechanisms of Vision A the most elementary of the cortical re­ gions concerned with vision. That will necessarily lead us into the related sub­ ject of visual perception, since the work­ ings of an organ cannot easily be sepa­ rated from its biological purpose. The cerebral cortex, a highly folded plate of neural tissue about two mil­ limeters thick, is an outermost crust