Nonlinear processing of shape information in rat lateral extrastriate cortex

G Matteucci, RB Marotti, M Riggi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
In rodents, the progression of extrastriate areas located laterally to primary visual cortex (V1)
has been assigned to a putative object-processing pathway (homologous to the primate …

Figure-ground perception in the awake mouse and neuronal activity elicited by figure-ground stimuli in primary visual cortex

UH Schnabel, C Bossens, JAM Lorteije, MW Self… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Figure-ground segregation is the process by which the visual system identifies image
elements of figures and segregates them from the background. Previous studies examined …

Mice and primates use distinct strategies for visual segmentation

FJ Luongo, L Liu, CLA Ho, JK Hesse, JB Wekselblatt… - elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
The rodent visual system has attracted great interest in recent years due to its experimental
tractability, but the fundamental mechanisms used by the mouse to represent the visual …

Involvement of superior colliculus in complex figure detection of mice

JL Cazemier, R Haak, TKL Tran, ATY Hsu, M Husic… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Object detection is an essential function of the visual system. Although the visual cortex
plays an important role in object detection, the superior colliculus can support detection …

The importance of contrast features in rat vision

AE Schnell, K Vinken, HO de Beeck - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Models of object recognition have mostly focused upon the hierarchical processing
of objects from local edges up to more complex shape features. An alternative strategy that …

A computationally informed comparison between the strategies of rodents and humans in visual object recognition

AE Schnell, M Leemans, K Vinken, HO de Beeck - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Many species are able to recognize objects, but it has been proven difficult to pinpoint and
compare how different species solve this task. Recent research suggested to combine …

The visual acuity of rats in touchscreen setups

E Crijns, H Op de Beeck - Vision, 2019 - mdpi.com
Touchscreen setups are increasingly used in rodents for a wide range of cognitive tasks,
including visual discrimination. The greater automation and high throughput of this platform …

Mice can use second-order, contrast-modulated stimuli to guide visual perception

Z Khastkhodaei, O Jurjut, S Katzner… - Journal of …, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual processing along the primate ventral stream takes place in a hierarchy of areas,
characterized by an increase in both complexity of neuronal preferences and invariance to …

Motion Selectivity of the Local Filed Potentials in the Primary Visual Cortex of Rats: A Machine Learning Approach

A Pourhedayat, M Aghababaeipour Dehkordi… - Cognitive …, 2024 - Springer
Using rodents as a model of physiological vision studies requires adequate information
about their visual cortex. Although the primary visual cortex of rats has different sub-regions …

Rat sensitivity to multipoint statistics is predicted by efficient coding of natural scenes

R Caramellino, E Piasini, A Buccellato, A Carboncino… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Efficient processing of sensory data requires adapting the neuronal encoding strategy to the
statistics of natural stimuli. Previously, in Hermundstad et al., 2014, we showed that local …