The adaptive brain: aging and neurocognitive scaffolding

DC Park, P Reuter-Lorenz - Annual review of psychology, 2009‏ - annualreviews.org
There are declines with age in speed of processing, working memory, inhibitory function,
and long-term memory, as well as decreases in brain structure size and white matter …

Retinal stimulation strategies to restore vision: Fundamentals and systems

L Yue, JD Weiland, B Roska, MS Humayun - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Retinal degeneration, a leading cause of blindness worldwide, is primarily characterized by
the dysfunctional/degenerated photoreceptors that impair the ability of the retina to detect …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroplasticity in adult human visual cortex

E Castaldi, C Lunghi, MC Morrone - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Between 1-5: 100 people worldwide have never experienced normotypic vision due
to a condition called amblyopia, and about 1: 4000 suffer from inherited retinal dystrophies …

Adult visual cortical plasticity

CD Gilbert, W Li - Neuron, 2012‏ - cell.com
The visual cortex has the capacity for experience-dependent change, or cortical plasticity,
that is retained throughout life. Plasticity is invoked for encoding information during …

The HTM spatial pooler—A neocortical algorithm for online sparse distributed coding

Y Cui, S Ahmad, J Hawkins - Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
Hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) provides a theoretical framework that models several
key computational principles of the neocortex. In this paper, we analyze an important …

The neural mechanisms of perceptual filling-in

H Komatsu - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2006‏ - nature.com
Filling-in is a perceptual phenomenon in which a visual attribute such as colour, brightness,
texture or motion is perceived in a region of the visual field even though such an attribute …

Imagery and spatial processes in blindness and visual impairment

Z Cattaneo, T Vecchi, C Cornoldi, I Mammarella… - Neuroscience & …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The objective of this review is to examine and evaluate recent findings on cognitive
functioning (in particular imagery processes) in individuals with congenital visual …

A common framework for perceptual learning

AR Seitz, HR Dinse - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2007‏ - Elsevier
In this review, we summarize recent evidence that perceptual learning can occur not only
under training conditions but also in situations of unattended and passive sensory …

Leber congenital amaurosis due to RPE65 mutations and its treatment with gene therapy

AV Cideciyan - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2010‏ - Elsevier
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare hereditary retinal degeneration caused by
mutations in more than a dozen genes. RPE65, one of these mutated genes, is highly …

Large-scale remap** of visual cortex is absent in adult humans with macular degeneration

HA Baseler, A Gouws, KV Haak, C Racey… - Nature …, 2011‏ - nature.com
The occipital lobe contains retinotopic representations of the visual field. The representation
of the central retina in early visual areas (V1–3) is found at the occipital pole. When the …