Cognitive functions of cortical acetylcholine: toward a unifying hypothesis

M Sarter, JP Bruno - Brain Research Reviews, 1997 - Elsevier
Previous efforts aimed at attributing discrete behavioral functions to cortical cholinergic
afferents have not resulted in a generally accepted hypothesis about the behavioral …

Escaping the nocturnal bottleneck, and the evolution of the dorsal and ventral streams of visual processing in primates

JH Kaas, HX Qi, I Stepniewska - … Transactions of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Early mammals were small and nocturnal. Their visual systems had regressed and they had
poor vision. After the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 mya, some but not all escaped the …

Beyond blindsight: properties of visual relearning in cortically blind fields

A Das, D Tadin, KR Huxlin - Journal of Neuroscience, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) or its immediate afferents results in a dense
scotoma, termed cortical blindness (CB). CB subjects have residual visual abilities, or …

Linking neuronal direction selectivity to perceptual decisions about visual motion

T Pasternak, D Tadin - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of responses to visual motion have
converged on a consistent set of general principles that characterize visual processing of …

Evidence for greater sight in blindsight following damage of primary visual cortex early in life

BR Payne, SG Lomber, MA Macneil, P Cornwell - Neuropsychologia, 1996 - Elsevier
This review compares the behavioral, physiological and anatomical repercussions of lesions
of primary visual cortex incurred by developing and mature humans, monkey and cats …

Training-induced recovery of visual motion perception after extrastriate cortical damage in the adult cat

KR Huxlin, T Pasternak - Cerebral Cortex, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Unilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the lateral suprasylvian (LS) cortex severely impair the
ability of cats to integrate local motion signals (measured as direction range thresholds) and …

Limited restoration of contrast sensitivity with training after V1 damage in humans

J Yang, EL Saionz, MR Cavanaugh, BK Fahrenthold… - Eneuro, 2024 - eneuro.org
Stroke damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes severe visual deficits, which benefit
from perceptual retraining. However, whereas training with high-contrast stimuli can locally …

Photorefractive keratectomy in the cat eye: biological and optical outcomes

LJ Nagy, S MacRae, G Yoon, M Wyble, J Wang… - Journal of Cataract & …, 2007 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To quantify optical and biomechanical properties of the feline cornea before and
after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and assess the relative contribution of different …

Lesions in cat lateral suprasylvian cortex affect the perception of complex motion

KK Rudolph, T Pasternak - Cerebral Cortex, 1996 - academic.oup.com
We examined the effects of bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of cat lateral suprasylvian (LS)
cortex on motion perception. Cats were tested on tasks requiring integration of local …

Contribution of area 17 to cell responses in the striate‐recipient zone of the cat's lateral posterior‐pulvinar complex

C Casanova, T Savard… - European Journal of …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
The cat's lateral posterior‐pulvinar complex (LP‐pulvinar) contains three main
representations of the visual field. The lateral part of the LP nucleus (LPI or striate‐recipient …