Although the ultimate aim of neuroscientific enquiry is to gain an understanding of the brain
and how its workings relate to the mind, the majority of current efforts are largely focused on …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) noninvasively measures human brain
activity at millimeter resolution. Scientists use different approaches to take advantage of the …

Numerosity, the set size of a group of items, is processed by the association cortex, but
certain aspects mirror the properties of primary senses. Sensory cortices contain …

A quarter-century ago visual neuroscientists had little information about the number and
organization of retinotopic maps in human visual cortex. The advent of functional magnetic …

Receptive field (RF) sizes and cortical magnification factor (CMF) are fundamental
organization properties of the visual cortex. At increasing visual eccentricity, RF sizes …

Contrasting the impact of congenital versus late-onset acquired blindness provides a unique
model to probe how experience at different developmental periods shapes the functional …

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare hereditary retinal degeneration caused by
mutations in more than a dozen genes. RPE65, one of these mutated genes, is highly …

Voluntary spatial attention concentrates neural resources at the attended location. Here, we
examined the effects of spatial attention on spatial position selectivity in humans. We …

The occipital lobe contains retinotopic representations of the visual field. The representation
of the central retina in early visual areas (V1–3) is found at the occipital pole. When the …

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare degenerative eye disease, linked to mutations in
at least 14 genes. A recent gene therapy trial in patients with LCA2, who have mutations in …