▪ Abstract It has long been assumed that sensory neurons are adapted, through both
evolutionary and developmental processes, to the statistical properties of the signals to …

The sensory pathways of animals are well adapted to processing a special class of signals,
namely stimuli from the animal's environment. An important fact about natural stimuli is that …

A number of recent attempts have been made to describe early sensory coding in terms of a
general information processing strategy. In this paper, two strategies are contrasted. Both …

The appearance of faces can be strongly affected by the characteristics of faces viewed
previously. These perceptual after-effects reflect processes of sensory adaptation that are …

Visual coding is a highly dynamic process and continuously adapting to the current viewing
context. The perceptual changes that result from adaptation to recently viewed stimuli …

Low-dimensional representations of sensory signals are key to solving many of the
computational problems encountered in high-level vision. Principal component analysis …

No sensory stimulus is an island unto itself; rather, it can only properly be interpreted in light
of the stimuli that surround it in space and time. This can result in entertaining illusions and …

While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there
have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional …

Color perception depends profoundly on adaptation processes that adjust sensitivity in
response to the prevailing pattern of stimulation. We examined how color sensitivity and …

The question of how our brains and those of other animals code sensory information is of
fundamental importance to neuroscience research. Visual illusions offer valuable insight into …