Deep neural networks (DNNs), which are based loosely on the ventral stream pathway of the primate visual system, are good models of the visual system …
Visuomotor adaptation is a process engaged in everyday settings because of its critical role in adjusting visually-guided actions, such as reaching. Two processes contribute to …
This dissertation examines the central concept of the “image” in Walter Benjamin’s oeuvre, with particular attention to the recurrence of the figure of the cloud …
Worldwide, 253 million people are afflicted with visual impairment. The development of novel therapies for the prevention and treatment of visual disorders is necessary 1. …
Recognizing the content of human actions is an important skill in our adaptation to the environment. We rely on our visual system to constantly interpret …
Visual selective attention helps to filter irrelevant information, integrate an object’s constituent visual features, and enhance cortical visual processing at the attended location. Motivated by …
Visual spatial attention serves to select locations of interest in the visual field and enhances the cortical representation of objects at those locations. Previous studies …
Nevertheless, a block of copper appears to be both a preliminary draft and a ruin: complete and ravaged. The abandoned project and the devastated work …
1. Sudden Vision Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study PURPOSE: The prevalence and determinants of sudden vision loss (SVL) …
Top-down signals such as attention not only modulate an individual neuron’s activity, but also orchestrate the synchrony in sensory areas. For example, spatial attention selectively …
As we move throughout the world, our brains continuously acquire sensory information and make predictions when visual information is limited. For example, an animal hopping …
The visual system takes information from a handful of photoreceptor types and, using a complex circuitry of neurons, transforms that information into a wide range …
It has been established that the feed-forward sweep along the ventral visual pathway is crucial for core object recognition. However, the visual system contains abundant …
In this thesis we begin to articulate a computational theory that provides a neuronal-leveldescription of the macro-level function of the visual system, and we propose …