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 …
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 …
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 …