[HTML][HTML] Polar angle asymmetries in visual perception and neural architecture

MM Himmelberg, J Winawer, M Carrasco - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Human visual performance changes with visual field location. It is best at the center of gaze
and declines with eccentricity, and also varies markedly with polar angle. These perceptual …

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 …

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 …

Transcranial magnetic stimulation to frontal but not occipital cortex disrupts endogenous attention

A Fernández, NM Hanning… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Covert endogenous (voluntary) attention improves visual performance. Human
neuroimaging studies suggest that the putative human homolog of macaque frontal eye …

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 …

Asymmetries around the visual field: From retina to cortex to behavior

ER Kupers, NC Benson, M Carrasco… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Visual performance varies around the visual field. It is best near the fovea compared to the
periphery, and at iso-eccentric locations it is best on the horizontal, intermediate on the …

[HTML][HTML] The Bouma law accounts for crowding in 50 observers

JW Kurzawski, A Burchell, D Thapa… - Journal of …, 2023 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Crowding is the failure to recognize an object due to surrounding clutter. Our visual
crowding survey measured 13 crowding distances (or “critical spacings”) twice in each of 50 …

Cortical magnification eliminates differences in contrast sensitivity across but not around the visual field

M Jigo, D Tavdy, MM Himmelberg, M Carrasco - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Human visual performance changes dramatically both across (eccentricity) and around
(polar angle) the visual field. Performance is better at the fovea, decreases with eccentricity …

Presaccadic attention sharpens visual acuity

Y Kwak, NM Hanning, M Carrasco - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Visual perception is limited by spatial resolution, the ability to discriminate fine details.
Spatial resolution not only declines with eccentricity but also differs for polar angle locations …

Microsaccades and temporal attention at different locations of the visual field

H Palmieri, A Fernández, M Carrasco - Journal of vision, 2023 - jov.arvojournals.org
Temporal attention, the prioritization of information at specific points in time, improves
performance in behavioral tasks but cannot ameliorate the perceptual asymmetries that exist …