The nature of consciousness in the visually deprived brain

R Kupers, P Pietrini, E Ricciardi, M Ptito - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Vision plays a central role in how we represent and interact with the world around us. The
primacy of vision is structurally imbedded in cortical organization as about one-third of the …

On specification and the senses

TA Stoffregen, BG Bardy - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
In this target article we question the assumption that perception is divided into separate
domains of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. We review implications of this …

Insights from darkness: what the study of blindness has taught us about brain structure and function

R Kupers, M Ptito - Progress in brain research, 2011 - Elsevier
Vision plays a central role in how we represent and interact with the world around us.
Roughly, one-third of the cortical surface in primates is involved in visual processes. The …

Self-organization of cortical areas in the development and evolution of neocortex

N Imam, B L. Finlay - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
While the mechanisms generating the topographic organization of primary sensory areas in
the neocortex are well studied, what generates secondary cortical areas is virtually …

Mapping behavioural evolution onto brain evolution: the strategic roles of conserved organization in individuals and species

BL Finlay, F Hinz, RB Darlington - … Transactions of the …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The pattern of individual variation in brain component structure in pigs, minks and laboratory
mice is very similar to variation across species in the same components, at a reduced scale …

NMDA antagonists in the superior colliculus prevent developmental plasticity but not visual transmission or map compression

L Huang, SL Pallas - Journal of Neurophysiology, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Partial ablation of the superior colliculus (SC) at birth in hamsters compresses the
retinocollicular map, increasing the amount of visual field represented at each SC location …

Cortical GABAergic Interneurons in Cross‐Modal Plasticity following Early Blindness

S Desgent, M Ptito - Neural plasticity, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Early loss of a given sensory input in mammals causes anatomical and functional
modifications in the brain via a process called cross‐modal plasticity. In the past four …

Perceptual information integration: Hypothetical role of astrocytes

A Pereira - Cognitive Computation, 2012 - Springer
In perceptual processes, signals carrying information about a stimulus are transmitted
through multiple processing lines to populations of receptive neurons and thalamocortical …

Altered expression of parvalbumin and calbindin in interneurons within the primary visual cortex of neonatal enucleated hamsters

S Desgent, D Boire, M Ptito - Neuroscience, 2010 - Elsevier
In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that the expression of calcium binding
proteins (CaBPs), parvalbumin (PV), calretinin (CR) and calbindin (CB), is dependent upon …

We are better off without perfect perception

E Brenner, JBJ Smeets - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2001 - cambridge.org
Stoffregen & Bardy's target article is based on the assumption that our senses' ultimate
purpose is to provide us with perfect information about the outside world. We argue that it is …