Visuospatial coding as ubiquitous scaffolding for human cognition

IIA Groen, TM Dekker, T Knapen, EH Silson - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
For more than 100 years we have known that the visual field is mapped onto the surface of
visual cortex, imposing an inherently spatial reference frame on visual information …

Fundamental movement skill proficiency among British primary school children: Analysis at a behavioral component level

C Lawson, ELJ Eyre, J Tallis… - Perceptual and Motor …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Fundamental Movement Skill (FMS) proficiency is an important antecedent of physical
activity for children and adolescents. Many studies report children's overall FMS proficiency …

Linking individual differences in human primary visual cortex to contrast sensitivity around the visual field

MM Himmelberg, J Winawer, M Carrasco - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
A central question in neuroscience is how the organization of cortical maps relates to
perception, for which human primary visual cortex (V1) is an ideal model system. V1 …

Comparing retinotopic maps of children and adults reveals a late-stage change in how V1 samples the visual field

MM Himmelberg, E Tünçok, J Gomez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Adult visual performance differs with angular location–it is better for stimuli along the
horizontal than vertical, and lower than upper vertical meridian of the visual field. These …

The functional neuroanatomy of face perception: from brain measurements to deep neural networks

K Grill-Spector, KS Weiner, J Gomez… - Interface …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A central goal in neuroscience is to understand how processing within the ventral visual
stream enables rapid and robust perception and recognition. Recent neuroscientific …

Population receptive fields in nonhuman primates from whole-brain fMRI and large-scale neurophysiology in visual cortex

PC Klink, X Chen, W Vanduffel, PR Roelfsema - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Population receptive field (pRF) modeling is a popular fMRI method to map the retinotopic
organization of the human brain. While fMRI-based pRF maps are qualitatively similar to …

Early visual experience refines the retinotopic organization within and across visual cortical regions

C Heitmann, M Zhan, M Linke, C Hölig, R Kekunnaya… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Early visual areas are retinotopically organized in human and non-human primates.
Population receptive field (pRF) size increases with eccentricity and from lower-to higher …

The development of visual cognition: The emergence of spatial congruency bias

M Gao, MD Starks, JD Golomb… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In adults, spatial location plays a special role in visual object processing. People are more
likely to judge two sequentially presented objects as being identical when they appear in the …

A demonstration of cone function plasticity after gene therapy in achromatopsia

M Farahbakhsh, EJ Anderson, RO Maimon-Mor… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Recent advances in regenerative therapy have placed the treatment of previously incurable
eye diseases within arms' reach. Achromatopsia is a severe monogenic heritable retinal …

Development of population receptive fields in the lateral visual stream improves spatial coding amid stable structural-functional coupling

J Gomez, A Drain, B Jeska, VS Natu, M Barnett… - Neuroimage, 2019 - Elsevier
Human visual cortex encompasses more than a dozen visual field maps across three major
processing streams. One of these streams is the lateral visual stream, which extends from V1 …