A simpler primate brain: the visual system of the marmoset monkey

SG Solomon, MGP Rosa - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Humans are diurnal primates with high visual acuity at the center of gaze. Although primates
share many similarities in the organization of their visual centers with other mammals, and …

The suppressive field of neurons in lateral geniculate nucleus

V Bonin, V Mante, M Carandini - Journal of Neuroscience, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
The responses of neurons in lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) exhibit powerful suppressive
phenomena such as contrast saturation, size tuning, and masking. These phenomena …

Adaptation to stimulus contrast and correlations during natural visual stimulation

NA Lesica, J **, C Weng, CI Yeh, DA Butts, GB Stanley… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
In this study, we characterize the adaptation of neurons in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus
to changes in stimulus contrast and correlations. By comparing responses to high-and low …

Spatial vision in older adults: perceptual changes and neural bases

AM McKendrick, YM Chan… - … and Physiological Optics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The number of older adults is rapidly increasing internationally, leading to a
significant increase in research on how healthy ageing impacts vision. Most clinical …

Temporal properties of the polarity advantage effect in crowding

R Chakravarthi, P Cavanagh - Journal of vision, 2007 - jov.arvojournals.org
If the target in a crowding display differs from the distracters in its contrast polarity, the extent
of crowding is reduced compared to the condition where all the elements in the display have …

Specificity of M and L cone inputs to receptive fields in the parvocellular pathway: random wiring with functional bias

P Buzás, EM Blessing, BA Szmajda… - Journal of …, 2006 - Soc Neuroscience
Many of the parvocellular pathway (PC) cells in primates show red–green spectral selectivity
(cone opponency), but PC ganglion cells in the retina show no anatomical signs of cone …

Visual contextual effects of orientation, contrast, flicker, and luminance: all are affected by normal aging

BN Nguyen, AM McKendrick - Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The perception of a visual stimulus can be markedly altered by spatial interactions between
the stimulus and its surround. For example, a grating stimulus appears lower in contrast …

Eye movements and the neural basis of context effects on visual sensitivity

R Ennis, D Cao, BB Lee, Q Zaidi - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
The effects of context on visual sensitivity are well established (eg, sensitivity to luminance
flicker is substantially higher on mean-gray surrounds than on white or black surrounds) …

Spatial receptive field properties of lateral geniculate cells in the owl monkey (Aotus azarae) at different contrasts: a comparative study

BE Kilavik, LCL Silveira… - European Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Several physiological properties of owl monkey lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) cells were
studied to verify whether its nocturnal habit has an influence on the organization of its …

The lateral geniculate nucleus

J Kremers, JH Kaas, PR Martin… - The Primate Visual …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) is a part of the thalamus. Most sensory input to
the thalamus is relayed to the neocortex. In comparison with non-mammalian vertebrates …