New technologies in neuroscience generate reams of data at an exponentially increasing
rate, spurring the design of very-large-scale data-mining initiatives. Several supranational …

Low-level perception results from neural-based computations, which build a multimodal
skeleton of unconscious or self-generated inferences on our environment. This review …

Neurons in sensory systems often pool inputs over arrays of presynaptic cells, giving rise to
functional subunits inside a neuron's receptive field. The organization of these subunits …

Substantial evidence at the subcellular level indicates that the spatial arrangement of
synaptic inputs onto dendrites could play a significant role in cortical computations, but how …

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 …

The primary visual cortex of carnivores and primates is dominated by the OFF visual
pathway and responds more strongly to dark than light stimuli. Here, we demonstrate that …

Turtle dorsal cortex (dCx), a three-layered cortical area of the reptilian telencephalon,
receives inputs from the retina via the thalamic lateral geniculate nucleus and constitutes the …

Neurons in the primary visual cortex are known for responding vigorously but with high
variability to classical stimuli such as drifting bars or gratings. By contrast, natural scenes are …

Visual object identification requires both selectivity for specific visual features that are
important to the object's identity and invariance to feature manipulations. For example, a …

Visual processing depends on specific computations implemented by complex neural
circuits. Here, we present a circuit-inspired model of retinal ganglion cell computation …