Visual Perception Part 1

I. Visual Circuits and Perception since Ramon Y Cajal.<br>Retinogeniculate connections: a balancing act between connection specificity and receptive field diversity.<br>Double bouquet cells in the monkey and human cerebral cortex with special reference to areas 17 and 18.<br>Covert attention increases contrast sesitivity: psychophysical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies.<br><br>II. Recent Discoveries on Receptive Field Structure.<br>The generation of receptive field structure in cat primary visual cortex. <br>The contribution of feedforward, lateral and feedback connections to the classical receptive field center and extra-classical receptive field surround of primate V1 neurons.<br>Cortical cartography revisited: a frequence perspective on the functional architecture of visual cortex.<br>The sensitivity of primate STS neurons to walking sequences and the degree of articulation in static images.<br><br>III. Eye Movements and Perception during Visual Fixation.<br>Fixational eye movements in normal and pathological vision.<br>Microsaccades: a microcosm for research on oculomotor control, attention, and visual perception.<br>Fixational eye movements and motion perception.<br>A cholinergic mechanism underlies persistent neural activity necessary for eye fixation.<br><br>IV. Perceptual Completion.<br>Perceptual filling-in: more than the eye can see.<br>The visual phantom illusion: a perceptual product of surface completion depending on brightness and contrast.<br><br>V. Form Object and Shape Perception.<br>Bayesian inference of form and shape.<br>Contour discontinuities subserve two types of form analysis that underlie motion processing.<br>Neural basis of shape representation in the primate brain.<br>The role of familiarity in the recognition of static and dynamic objects.