Submissions tagged with visual perception
(4 documents)
Can Vision Exist Without Somatosensation?
The interconnection between vision and somatosensation is already well-established and is further supplemented by the evolutionary link between eyes and photoreceptors, and the functional connectio…
Received 16 July 2009 14:23 UTC; Posted 17 July 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience
Dynamic reorganization of the middle fusiform gyrus: long-term bird expertise predicts decreased face selectivity
What is the functional relationship between face-selective and expertise-predicated object-selective regions in the human middle fusiform gyrus? In two separate fMRI experiments, superior behaviora…
Received 04 November 2008 18:26 UTC; Posted 05 November 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Motion-Induced Blindness
Visual disappearance illusions – such as motion-induced blindness (MIB) – are commonly used to study the neural underpinnings of visual perception. In such illusions a salient visual target becomes…
Received 09 January 2008 19:37 UTC; Posted 09 January 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
Koffka’s Ring Effect Depends on Thickness, Not Continuity
More than 70 years ago Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka described a fascinating effect1,2: When a contiguous grey ring is placed on a background half of one shade of grey (different from the ring) ...
Received 17 December 2007 06:13 UTC; Posted 17 December 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience
