Understanding how the human brain represents the information picked up by the senses is a longstanding objective of ...

The visual system enables us to perceive our environment and perform functions such as safe navigation. An example of a critical component of effective perception is gaze stability, which relies on ...

Complementary immunohistochemical evidence further identifies neurochemical perturbations within the primary visual cortex (V1), such as dysregulated glutamate receptor expression and astrocytic ...

There are two main theories that pertain to the role of the primary visual cortex (V1) in visual awareness. Hierarchical models propose that although V1 provides necessary input, only high-level ...

We trained macaque monkeys to judge the orientation of ambiguous stimuli and additionally report their confidence in these judgments. We recorded population activity in the primary visual cortex and ...

We conducted single-voxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) in 11 blind patients with end-stage primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and 11 normal controls to characterize metabolic ...

Retinal degenerative disorders are one of the leading causes of human blindness in adult life. Electronic retinal prostheses aim to restore vision in blind people who have photoreceptor cell loss by ...

Here we show that a late (> 100-ms) component of the neural activity in the primary visual cortex of the monkey is selectively suppressed when stimuli are not seen.

Neighborly help in the brain: Cerebral cortex networks rapidly reorganize to compensate for lost neurons by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan ...