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Aerospace Medicine↗

Neuronal synchrony does not represent texture segregation.

The visual environment is perceived as an organized whole of objects and their surroundings. In many visual cortical areas, however, neurons are typically activated when a stimulus is presented over a very limited portion of the visual field, the receptive field of that neuron. To bridge the gap between this piecewise neuronal analysis and our global visual percepts, it has been postulated that neurons representing elements of the same object fire in synchrony to represent the perceptual organization of a scene. Experiments with stimuli such as moving bars or gratings have provided evidence for this hypothesis. We have further tested this by presenting monkeys with various textured scenes consisting of a figure on a background, and recorded neuronal activity in the primary visual cortex (area V1). Our results show no systematic relationship between the synchrony of firing of pairs of neurons and the perceptual organization of the scene. Instead, pairs of recording sites representing elements of the same figure most commonly showed equal amounts of synchrony between them as did pairs of which one site represented the figure and the other the background. We conclude that synchrony in V1 does not reflect the binding of features that leads to texture segregation.

Animals↗

Visual search for a conjunction of movement and form is parallel.

Treisman has proposed when a human subject performs a visual search, the search is parallel for targets defined by a single feature, and serial for targets defined by a conjunction of features. Here we report that this is not true for targets defined by a conjunction of the features movement and form. Detection of a moving X among randomly distributed moving Os and static Xs is parallel. Search is uninfluenced by the stationary stimuli despite their spatial intermingling with the moving items. Thus, attention can be restricted to a spatially dispersed perceptual group, defined by common movement. This contradicts previous conclusions from visual search experiments that attention can only be assigned to contiguous regions of visual space. The search process first segregates the array into moving and stationary items, and then examines the moving group for the target form. Cells in the middle temporal region (cortical area MT) have the properties required to perform these operations.

Color Perception↗

Art, illusion and the visual system.

The verve of op art, the serenity of a pointillist painting and the 3-D puzzlement of an Escher print derive from the interplay of the art with the anatomy of the visual system. Color, shape and movement are each processed separately by different structures in the eye and brain and then are combined to produce the experience we call perception.

Art↗

Visual deficits in a patient with 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of the visual world'.

We describe psychophysical, neuropsychological and neuro-ophthalmological studies of visual abilities in a patient who, following a right hemisphere stroke, had difficulty in combining parts of objects into a whole and in reading. Strikingly, her perceptual problems were accentuated when the objects moved or when she moved. Formal testing showed that her main deficits were in depth perception, various tasks of motion and object recognition of degraded stimuli. But low-level detection and discrimination of form and color were normal. Despite her deficits in visual motion and degraded static-object recognition, her visual recognition of 'biological motion' stimuli was normal. Structural magnetic resonance imaging revealed an infarct in the ventro-medial occipito-temporal region, extending ventro-laterally and leading to a 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of visible objects'.

Adrenalectomy↗

Monocular versus binocular contrast thresholds for movement and pattern.

The superiority of binocular vision over monocular vision has been compared for the detection of stationary sinusoidal grating patterns, and for the detection of the apparent movement induced by rapidly phase-reversing such gratings. The thresholds for binocular and monocular pattern perception were in the ratio 1:2 1/2, as found by previous workers. For apparent movement, however, binocular thresholds were lower than monocular thresholds by a factor of 1.9; for every subject tested (n = 20) the ratio for movement detection was larger than the ratio for pattern detection. The effects of combining inputs from the two eyes cannot be explained solely by linear summation models, but may in some circumstances depend on the nonlinearities of certain types of nerve cell.

Form Perception↗