The neural basis of visual perception can be understood only when the sequence of cortical activity underlying successful recognition is known. The early steps in this processing chain, from retina to the primary visual cortex, are highly local, and the perception of more complex shapes requires integration of the local information. In Study I of this thesis, the progression from local to global visual analysis was assessed by recording cortical magnetoencephalographic (MEG) responses to arrays of elements that either did or did not form global contours. The results demonstrated two spatially and temporally distinct stages of processing: The first, emerging 70 ms after stimulus onset around the calcarine sulcus, was sensitive to local featu...
Visual processing is generaly understood as resulting from a complex and iterative processing. After...
The complex multi-stage architecture of cortical visual pathways provides the neural basis for effic...
The visual system is thought to accomplish categorization through a series of hi- erarchical featur...
Visual information processing in brain proceeds in both serial and parallel fashion throughout vario...
The earliest stages of human cortical visual processing can be conceived as extraction of local stim...
To understand how objects are recognized and represented in the human brain is still one of the ulti...
Visual object recognition is the principal mechanism by which humans and many animals interpret thei...
The objective of this thesis is to develop mathematical models of visual perception based on cortica...
The computer simulations carried out in this thesis demonstrated that a spherically symmetric conduc...
PhD thesisIn this thesis, I describe a quantitative model that accounts for the circuits and computa...
AbstractThe cortical mechanisms associated with conscious object recognition were studied using func...
The research summarized here shows that cortical representations of faces and objects are both spa...
Despite the importance of an observer’s goals in determining how a visual object is categorized, sur...
Much controversy exists around the locus of conscious visual perception in human cortex. Some author...
The ability to successfully allocate attention to a particular space or feature in the visual world ...
Visual processing is generaly understood as resulting from a complex and iterative processing. After...
The complex multi-stage architecture of cortical visual pathways provides the neural basis for effic...
The visual system is thought to accomplish categorization through a series of hi- erarchical featur...
Visual information processing in brain proceeds in both serial and parallel fashion throughout vario...
The earliest stages of human cortical visual processing can be conceived as extraction of local stim...
To understand how objects are recognized and represented in the human brain is still one of the ulti...
Visual object recognition is the principal mechanism by which humans and many animals interpret thei...
The objective of this thesis is to develop mathematical models of visual perception based on cortica...
The computer simulations carried out in this thesis demonstrated that a spherically symmetric conduc...
PhD thesisIn this thesis, I describe a quantitative model that accounts for the circuits and computa...
AbstractThe cortical mechanisms associated with conscious object recognition were studied using func...
The research summarized here shows that cortical representations of faces and objects are both spa...
Despite the importance of an observer’s goals in determining how a visual object is categorized, sur...
Much controversy exists around the locus of conscious visual perception in human cortex. Some author...
The ability to successfully allocate attention to a particular space or feature in the visual world ...
Visual processing is generaly understood as resulting from a complex and iterative processing. After...
The complex multi-stage architecture of cortical visual pathways provides the neural basis for effic...
The visual system is thought to accomplish categorization through a series of hi- erarchical featur...