Mechanisms of early visual processing in the medulla of the locust optic lobe: how self-inhibition, spatial-pooling, and signal rectification contribute to the properties of transient cells.

abstract：:By establishing an avascular, highly elastic, region within the fetal area of high acuity (AHA), the developing primate eye has created a unique substrate on which the mechanical forces of intraocular pressure (IOP) and growth-induced retinal stretch (stretch) can act. We proposed (Springer & Hendrickson, 2004b) that ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Springer AD,Hendrickson AE

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of freely-flying honeybees to track moving targets was examined by training them to collect a reward on a target, and then videotaping their approach to the target while it was in motion. Training experiments were carried out with several groups of bees, using various colors for the target and the backgrou...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Zhang SW,Wang XA,Liu ZL,Srinivasan MV

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system is remarkably tolerant to degradation in image resolution: human performance in scene categorization remains high no matter whether low-resolution images or multimegapixel images are used. This observation raises the question of how many pixels are required to form a meaningful representation o...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Torralba A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent projections comprise a universal feature of cerebral organization. Here, we show that the corticofugal projections from the striate cortex (VI) to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) robustly and multiplicatively enhance the responses of parvocellular neurons, stimulated by gratings restricted to the classi...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Przybyszewski AW,Gaska JP,Foote W,Pollen DA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal ganglion cell (RGC) dendritic atrophy is an early feature of many forms of retinal degeneration, providing a challenge to RGC classification. The characterization of these changes is complicated by the possibility that selective labeling of any particular class can confound the estimation of dendritic remodeli...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Tribble JR,Cross SD,Samsel PA,Sengpiel F,Morgan JE

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lesion or inactivation of the superior colliculus (SC) of the cat results in an animal that fails to orient toward peripheral visual stimuli which normally evoke a brisk, reflexive orienting response. A failure to orient toward a visual stimulus could be the result of a sensory impairment (a failure to detect the visu...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Fitzmaurice MC,Ciaramitaro VM,Palmer LA,Rosenquist AC

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dopamine on luminosity-type horizontal cells have been documented in different vertebrate retinas, both in vivo and in vitro. Some of these effects may reflect direct action of dopamine onto these cells, but indirect effects mediated by presynaptic neurons cannot be ruled out. Furthermore, direct effect...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Ammermüller J,Weiler R,Perlman I

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For over 30 years there has been a controversy over whether color-defined motion can be perceived by the human visual system. Some results suggest that there is no chromatic motion mechanism at all, whereas others do find evidence for a purely chromatic motion mechanism. Here we examine the chromatic input to global m...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Ruppertsberg AI,Wuerger SM,Bertamini M

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined cytochrome oxidase (CO) activity in striate cortex of four macaque monkeys after monocular enucleation at ages 1, 1, 5, and 12 weeks. These animal experiments were performed to guide our interpretation of CO patterns in occipital lobe specimens obtained from two children who died several years after monocu...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Horton JC,Hocking DR

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following up on a prior study of contour and brightness processing in visual masking (Breitmeyer et al., 2006), we investigated the effects of a binocular and dichoptic para-contrast masking on the visibility of the contour and brightness of a target presented to the other eye. Combined, the results support the contri...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Breitmeyer BG,Ziegler R,Hauske G

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the plasticity of human voluntary fixational eye movement control in relation to visual experience/chronic visual deprivation. Twelve blind adults participated (self-reported vision < or = light perception in each eye; age range = 23-56 years; visual experience range = 0-28 years; b...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Hall EC,Ciuffreda KJ

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of GABA-like immunoreactivity in the cat retina was studied through the use of preembedding immunocytochemistry for light microscopy and by postembedding immunogold techniques for electron microscopy. Staining was observed in both inner and outer plexiform layers. Approximately 30% of the somata in th...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Pourcho RG,Owczarzak MT

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptically localized calcium channels shape the timecourse of synaptic release, are a prominent site for neuromodulation, and have been implicated in genetic disease. In retina, it is well established that L-type calcium channels play a major role in mediating release of glutamate from the photoreceptors and bipolar...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Bieda MC,Copenhagen DR

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peripheral visual field is marked by a deterioration in color sensitivity, sometimes attributed to the random wiring of midget bipolar cells to cone photoreceptors in the peripheral retina (Mullen, 1991; Mullen & Kingdom, 1996). Using psychophysical methods, we explored differences in the sensitivity of peripheral...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Newton JR,Eskew RT Jr

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have described the currents flowing across the presynaptic membranes of the four median photoreceptors of the giant barnacle, Balanus nubilus, using a quasi-voltage clamp arrangement. Membrane potential, measured in the terminal region of one photoreceptor, was controlled in all four terminals by feedback current s...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Hayashi JH,Stuart AE

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is reportedly 3% bi-nucleated. The importance to human vision of multi-nucleated (MN)-RPE cells could be clarified with more data about their distribution in central retina. METHODS:Nineteen human RPE-flatmounts (9 ≤ 51 years, 10 > 80 years) were imaged at 12 locat...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Starnes AC,Huisingh C,McGwin G Jr,Sloan KR,Ablonczy Z,Smith RT,Curcio CA,Ach T

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While color vision mediated by rod photoreceptors in dim light is possible (Kelber & Roth, 2006), most animals, including humans, do not see in color at night. This is because their retinas contain only a single class of rod photoreceptors. Many of these same animals have daylight color vision, mediated by multiple cl...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Manning JR,Brainard DH

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retinas of adult teleost fish can regenerate following injury, but little is known about the neuronal integration of the visual scene that is performed by the regenerated retina. Using goldfish retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) as the experimental system, an evaluation of dendritic arbor structure and passive electrot...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Cameron DA,Vafai H,White JA

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study of the tree shrew, Tupaia belangeri, provides evidence for an intracollicular pathway that arises in the superficial gray layer and terminates in the optic layer. As a first step, Nissl, myelin, and cytochrome oxidase stains were used to identify the layers of the superior colliculus in the tree shrew. Seco...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Lee P,Hall WC

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments on the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the cat based on 14C 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) autoradiography and intraocular injections of 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (APB) provided evidence for gradients of metabolic activity in the ON and OFF pathways in layer A, but only very weakly, if at all, in layer A1...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Thurlow GA,Bowling DB,Cooper RM

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AMPA-selective glutamate receptors play a major role in glutamatergic neurotransmission in the retina and are expressed in a variety of neuronal subpopulations. In the present study, immunocytochemical techniques were used to visualize the distribution of GluR2 and GluR4 subunits in the cat retina. Results were compar...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Qin P,Pourcho RG

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ablation of visual cortical areas 17 and 18 in neonatal and young adult cats induces novel retinal projections to terminate bilaterally in the lateral posterior nucleus (LP) at a position ventromedial from the medial interlaminar nucleus. Comparison with the visual-field maps of LP indicate that the terminations are f...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Payne BR,Foley HA,Lomber SG

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent isolation of at least five different cDNAs encoding functional subunits of glutamate receptors (GluR1 to GluR5) has revealed a diversity whose function is not understood. To learn more about how these different receptor subunits are used in the brain, we undertook an in situ hybridization study of the retin...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Hughes TE,Hermans-Borgmeyer I,Heinemann S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linking propositions have played an important role in refining our understanding of the relationship between neural activity and perception. Over the last 40 years, visual evoked potentials (VEPs) have been used in many different ways to address questions of the relationship between neural activity and perception. Thi...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Norcia AM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entire population of ganglion cells in the retina of the toad Bufo marinus was labeled by retrograde transport of a lysine-fixable biotinylated dextran amine of 3000 molecular weight. Synaptic connections between bipolar, amacrine, and ganglion cells in the inner plexiform layer were quantitatively analyzed, with ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Zhu BS,Gibbins IL

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent interest in nitric oxide and its relationship to cGMP has produced many attempts to anatomically localize the enzyme synthesizing nitric oxide, nitric oxide synthase. In the retina, numerous previous studies have used the NADPH-diaphorase enzyme activity of nitric oxide synthase as a histochemical method to loc...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Blute TA,Mayer B,Eldred WD

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the grating acuity and contrast sensitivity of cats whose eye position was monitored with a scleral search-coil technique. During each trial, the cat was required to maintain fixation on a laser spot and respond to the presence or the absence of a grating by pressing a right or left pedal. With this proced...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Pasternak T,Horn K

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to use non-invasive magneto-encephalographic techniques, together with visual stimulus paradigms that can psychophysically separate the M- and P-pathways, to examine the physiological relations of the pathways at the fovea with (1) the magneto-encephalography components M70 and M100 (in laten...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Yang CY,Hsieh JC,Chang Y

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual perception is not instantaneous; the perceptual representation of our environment builds up over time. This can strongly affect our responses to visual stimuli. Here, we study the temporal dynamics of visual processing by analyzing the time course of priming effects induced by the well-known Ebbinghaus illusion...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Schmidt F,Weber A,Haberkamp A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the influence of voltage-sensitive conductances in shaping light-evoked responses of retinal bipolar cells, whole-cell recordings were made in the slice preparation of the tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum. To study contrast encoding, the retina was stimulated with 0.5-s steps of negative and positiv...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Thoreson WB,Burkhardt DA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00