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A reduced motion aftereffect in strabismic amblyopia

The motion aftereffect was measured using both static and dynamic test stimuli in a group of normal observers and a group of strabismic amblyopes. Amblyopes exhibited a reduced direct aftereffect for both static and dynamic stimuli and only two of the eight amblyopes exhibited any measurable interocular transfer for either test stimulus. It is hard to explain these results in terms of either th...

Impaired Retinal Function in Young Labrador Retriever Dogs Heterozygous for Late Onset Rod-Cone Degeneration

Xenon-flash d.c.-electroretinograms were recorded from dark adapted, rod-cone degenerate homozygote affected (n = 6), heterozygote carrier (n = 3) and control retinas (n = 4) at 3 and 4 months of age, starting at 0.6 log units below control PII threshold. One log unit higher stimuli were necessary to evoke PII in heterozygote and affected retinas compared to controls. Unique to the heterozygote...

Edge co-occurrence in natural images predicts contour grouping performance

The human brain manages to correctly interpret almost every visual image it receives from the environment. Underlying this ability are contour grouping mechanisms that appropriately link local edge elements into global contours. Although a general view of how the brain achieves effective contour grouping has emerged, there have been a number of different specific proposals and few successes at ...

Coding of the contrasts in natural images by populations of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1)

It is possible to discriminate between grating contrasts over a 300-fold contrast range, whereas V1 neurons have very limited dynamic ranges. Using populations of model neurons with contrast-response parameters taken from electrophysiological studies (cat and macaque), we investigated ways of combining responses to code contrast over the full range. One model implemented a pooling rule that ret...

The 19th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)