Central factors contributing to para-contrast modulation of contour and brightness perception.

abstract：:Lateral suprasylvian visual cortex in the cat has been studied extensively, but its retinotopic organization remains controversial. Although some investigators have divided this region into many distinct areas, others have argued for a simpler organization. A clear understanding of the region's retinotopic organizatio...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Sherk H,Mulligan KA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vision begins with photoisomerization of 11-cis retinal to the all-trans conformation within the chromophore-binding pocket of opsin, leading to activation of a biochemical cascade. Release of all-trans retinal from the binding pocket curtails but does not fully quench the ability of opsin to activate transducin. All-...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Isayama T,McCabe England SL,Crouch RK,Zimmerman AL,Makino CL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to evaluate the maturity of three inhibitory mechanisms (end-inhibition, side-inhibition, and cross-orientation inhibition) in the striate cortex of kittens at 4 weeks postnatal. To accomplish this, we made extracellular recordings from area 17 neurons while presenting visual stimuli co...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Green ES,DeAngelis GC,Freeman RD

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to compare standard multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) pattern-reversal responses with those produced by pattern-onset, pattern-offset, and pulsed pattern stimuli. mfVEP recordings were obtained from five normal subjects using VERIS and a 4-electrode array. The standard rev...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Fortune B,Demirel S,Bui BV

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of contrast discrimination performance in human observers is developed and then extended to cover effects on performance of anticholinergic drugs. It is shown that it is necessary to assume that neural noise increases at high spatial frequencies in order to provide a satisfactory model of variations in discrim...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Smith AT

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The eye has become an excellent target for gene therapy, and gene augmentation therapy of inherited retinal disorders has made major progress in recent years. Nevertheless, a recent study indicated that gene augmentation intervention might not stop the progression of retinal degeneration in patients. In addition, for ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Nagel-Wolfrum K,Möller F,Penner I,Wolfrum U

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:Although galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) is known to affect the speed and accuracy of visual judgments, the underlying electrophysiological response has not been explored. In the present study, we therefore investigated the effect of GVS on the N170 event-related potential, a marker commonly associated with earl...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Wilkinson D,Ferguson HJ,Worley A

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance and spatial distribution of retinal cone photoreceptors change during thyroid hormone (TH)-induced and natural development of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). These changes are thought to allow the fish to adapt to different photic environments throughout its life history. To date, the ontogeny of ra...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Veldhoen K,Allison WT,Veldhoen N,Anholt BR,Helbing CC,Hawryshyn CW

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human eye, domination of the electroretinogram (ERG) by the b-wave and other postreceptor components ordinarily obscures all but the first few milliseconds of the rod photoreceptor response to a stimulating flash. However, recovery of the rod response after a bright rest flash can be analyzed using a paired-fla...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Pepperberg DR,Birch DG,Hood DC

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:L and M cones, divided into two groups by absorption spectra, have not been distinguished by structure. Here, we report what may be such a difference. We reconstructed the synaptic terminals of 16 non-S cones and the dendritic arbors of their ON and OFF midget bipolar cells from high-magnification electron micrographs...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Schein S,Ngo IT,Huang TM,Klug K,Sterling P,Herr S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is widely accepted that human color vision is based on two types of cone-opponent mechanism, one differencing L and M cone types (loosely termed "red-green"), and the other differencing S with the L and M cones (loosely termed "blue-yellow"). The traditional view of the early processing of human color vision sugges...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Sankeralli MJ,Mullen KT

更新日期：2001-01-01 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 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：:Anatomical and electrophysiological studies have provided us with detailed information regarding the extent and topography of the primary (V1) and secondary (V2) visual areas in primates. The consensus about the V1 and V2 maps, however, is in sharp contrast with controversies regarding the organization of the cortical...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Gattass R,Lima B,Soares JG,Ungerleider LG

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of visual area V4 in pattern vision, we tested two monkeys with lesions of V4 on tasks that required them to discriminate the orientation of contours defined by several different cues. The cues used to separate the contours from their background included luminance, color, motion, and texture, as we...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： De Weerd P,Desimone R,Ungerleider LG

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The retina of salmonid fishes has two types of cone photoreceptors: single and double cones. At the nuclear level, these cones are distributed in a square mosaic such that the double cones form the sides of the square and the single cones occupy positions at the centre and at the corners of the square. Double cones co...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Cheng CL,Flamarique IN

更新日期：2007-05-01 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：:The purpose of the present study was to examine the contributions made by cat posterior parietal cortex to the analyses of the relative position of objects in visual space. Two cats were trained on a landmark task in which they learned to report the position of a landmark object relative to a right or left food-reward...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Lomber SG,Payne BR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic suppression is the reduced visibility that occurs during saccadic eye movements. Recent psychophysical studies have suggested that this is due to a reduction in responsiveness of magnocellular (M), but not parvocellular (P), cells of the lateral geniculate nucleus. To address this and other phenomena of respo...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Ramcharan EJ,Gnadt JW,Sherman SM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitory synaptic transmission via GABA and glycine receptors plays a crucial role in shaping the excitatory response of neurons in the retina. Whole-cell recordings were obtained from ganglion cells in the intact rabbit eyecup preparation to correlate GABA- and glycine-activated currents with the presence of their ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Rotolo TC,Dacheux RF

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eyes of stomatopod crustaceans, or mantis shrimps, contain the greatest diversity of visual pigments yet described in any species, with as many as ten or more spectral classes present in a single retina. In this study, the eyes of seven species of mantis shrimp from three superfamilies of stomatopods were examined for...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Goldsmith TH,Cronin TW

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laminar and tangential organization of visual callosal projections of areas 17 and 18 were investigated in the adult ferret, using histochemical methods to visualize axonally transported horseradish peroxidase (HRP). Normal adult ferrets were given injections of HRP throughout one visual cortex or had gelfoam soak...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Grigonis AM,Rayos del Sol-Padua RB,Murphy EH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many diverse retinal disorders are characterized by retinal edema; yet, little experimental attention has been given to understanding the fundamental mechanisms underlying and contributing to these fluid-based disorders. Water transport in and out of cells is achieved by specialized membrane channels, with most rapid ...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Goodyear MJ,Crewther SG,Junghans BM

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In birds, neurons of the isthmo-optic nucleus (ION), as well as "ectopic" neurons, send axons to the retina, where they synapse on cells in the inner nuclear layer (INL). Previous work has shown that centrifugal axons can be divided into two anatomically distinct types depending on their model of termination: either "...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Nickla DL,Gottlieb MD,Marin G,Rojas X,Britto LR,Wallman J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphoinositide (PI) intracellular signaling pathway, which triggers Ca2+ release from intracellular stores, appears to be a central feature of phototransduction in most invertebrate species studied. Procedures designed to inhibit PI-pathway reactions cause suppression of excitation to dim lights. However, in Lim...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Johnson EC,Gray-Keller MP,O'Day PM

更新日期：1998-01-01 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

abstract：:The size, pattern of terminal arborizations, and laminar specificity of individual retinogeniculate axons were studied in the macaque following injections of HRP into the optic tract. Axons that terminated in the magnocellular layers had significantly larger fiber diameters and wider terminal fields than those that te...

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Conley M,Fitzpatrick D

更新日期：1989-01-01 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：:GABA is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian retina and it acts at many different sites via a variety of postsynaptic receptors. These include GABAA receptors and bicuculline-resistant GABAC receptors. The release of acetylcholine (ACh) is inhibited by GABA and strongly potentiated by GABA antagonists....

journal_title：Visual neuroscience

authors： Massey SC,Linn DM,Kittila CA,Mirza W

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00