Vision loss after retinal or cerebral visual injury (CVI) was long considered to be irreversible.
However, there is considerable potential for vision restoration and recovery even in …

The'bionic eye'—so long a dream of the future—is finally becoming a reality with retinal
prostheses available to patients in both the US and Europe. However, clinical experience …

A tidal wave of recent research purports to have discovered that higher-level states such as
moods, action capabilities, and categorical knowledge can literally and directly affect how …

The visual cortex has the capacity for experience-dependent change, or cortical plasticity,
that is retained throughout life. Plasticity is invoked for encoding information during …

Damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) causes homonymous visual-field loss long
considered intractable. Multiple studies now show that perceptual training can restore visual …

We previously reported large-scale reorganization of visual processing (ie, activation of
“foveal” cortex by peripheral stimuli) in two individuals with loss of foveal input from macular …

Following the pioneering studies of the receptive field (RF), the RF concept gained further
significance for visual perception by the discovery of input effects from beyond the classical …

Cortical reorganization of visual and object representations following neural injury was
examined using fMRI and behavioral investigations. We probed the visual responsivity of the …

Recent work has shown that foveal cortex, deprived of its normal bottom-up input as a result
of macular degeneration (MD), begins responding to stimuli presented to a peripheral retinal …

Cortical blindness is a chronic loss of vision following damage to the primary visual cortex
(V1) or its postchiasmal afferents. Such damage is followed by a brief period of spontaneous …