383 research outputs found
Act quickly, decide later: long latency visual processing underlies perceptual decisions but not reflexive behavior
Jolij J, Scholte H, Van Gaal S, Hodgson TL, Lamme VAF (2011) Act quickly, decide later: Long latency visual processing underlies perceptual decisions but not reflexive behavior. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(12), p 3734-3745
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Quadrupole Collective States in a Large Single-J Shell
We discuss the ability of the generator coordinate method (GCM) to select
collective states in microscopic calculations. The model studied is a
single- shell with hamiltonian containing the quadrupole-quadrupole
interaction. Quadrupole collective excitations are constructed by means of the
quadrupole single-particle operator. Lowest collective bands for =31/2 and
particle numbers =4,6,8,10,12, and are found. For lower values of ,
exact solutions are obtained and compared with the GCM results.Comment: submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. C, revtex, 28 pages, 15
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Population Receptive Field Dynamics in Human Visual Cortex
Seminal work in the early nineties revealed that the visual receptive field of neurons in cat primary visual cortex can change in location and size when artificial scotomas are applied. Recent work now suggests that these single neuron receptive field dynamics also pertain to the neuronal population receptive field (pRF) that can be measured in humans with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). To examine this further, we estimated the pRF in twelve healthy participants while masking the central portion of the visual field. We found that the pRF changes in location and size for two differently sized artificial scotomas, and that these pRF dynamics are most likely due to a combination of the neuronal receptive field position and size scatter as well as modulatory feedback signals from extrastriate visual areas
How Awareness Changes the Relative Weights of Evidence During Human Decision-Making
A combined behavioral and brain imaging study shows how sensory awareness and stimulus visibility can influence the dynamics of decision-making in humans
Feed-Forward Segmentation of Figure-Ground and Assignment of Border-Ownership
Figure-ground is the segmentation of visual information into objects and their surrounding backgrounds. Two main processes herein are boundary assignment and surface segregation, which rely on the integration of global scene information. Recurrent processing either by intrinsic horizontal connections that connect surrounding neurons or by feedback projections from higher visual areas provide such information, and are considered to be the neural substrate for figure-ground segmentation. On the contrary, a role of feedforward projections in figure-ground segmentation is unknown. To have a better understanding of a role of feedforward connections in figure-ground organization, we constructed a feedforward spiking model using a biologically plausible neuron model. By means of surround inhibition our simple 3-layered model performs figure-ground segmentation and one-sided border-ownership coding. We propose that the visual system uses feed forward suppression for figure-ground segmentation and border-ownership assignment
Concepts of visual consciousness and their measurement.
Although visual consciousness can be manipulated easily (e.g., by visual
masking), it is unresolved whether it can be assessed accurately with behavioral
measures such as discrimination ability and self-report. Older theories of
visual consciousness postulated a sensory threshold and distinguished between
subjective and objective thresholds. In contrast, newer theories distinguish
among three aspects: phenomenal, access, and reflexive consciousness. This
review shows that discrimination ability and self-report differ in their
sensitivity to these aspects. Therefore, both need to be assessed in the study
of visual consciousness
Properties of V1 Neurons Tuned to Conjunctions of Visual Features: Application of the V1 Saliency Hypothesis to Visual Search behavior
From a computational theory of V1, we formulate an optimization problem to investigate neural properties in the primary visual cortex (V1) from human reaction times (RTs) in visual search. The theory is the V1 saliency hypothesis that the bottom-up saliency of any visual location is represented by the highest V1 response to it relative to the background responses. The neural properties probed are those associated with the less known V1 neurons tuned simultaneously or conjunctively in two feature dimensions. The visual search is to find a target bar unique in color (C), orientation (O), motion direction (M), or redundantly in combinations of these features (e.g., CO, MO, or CM) among uniform background bars. A feature singleton target is salient because its evoked V1 response largely escapes the iso-feature suppression on responses to the background bars. The responses of the conjunctively tuned cells are manifested in the shortening of the RT for a redundant feature target (e.g., a CO target) from that predicted by a race between the RTs for the two corresponding single feature targets (e.g., C and O targets). Our investigation enables the following testable predictions. Contextual suppression on the response of a CO-tuned or MO-tuned conjunctive cell is weaker when the contextual inputs differ from the direct inputs in both feature dimensions, rather than just one. Additionally, CO-tuned cells and MO-tuned cells are often more active than the single feature tuned cells in response to the redundant feature targets, and this occurs more frequently for the MO-tuned cells such that the MO-tuned cells are no less likely than either the M-tuned or O-tuned neurons to be the most responsive neuron to dictate saliency for an MO target
Dos and don’ts in response priming research
Response priming is a well-understood but sparsely employed paradigm in cognitive
science. The method is powerful and well-suited for exploring early visuomotor
processing in a wide range of tasks and research fields. Moreover, response
priming can be dissociated from visual awareness, possibly because it is based
on the first sweep of feedforward processing of primes and targets. This makes
it a theoretically interesting device for separating conscious and unconscious
vision. We discuss the major opportunities of the paradigm and give specific
recommendations (e.g., tracing the time-course of priming in parametric
experiments). Also, we point out typical confounds, design flaws, and data
processing artifacts
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