Visual deprivation in early life profoundly affects the characteristic sensitivity of visual cortical cells to stimulus orientation and direction. Recently, relay cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNd) have been shown to exhibit significant degrees of orientation and direction sensitivity. The effects of visual deprivation upon these properties of subcortical cells are unknown. In this ...

The human visual system encodes the chromatic signals conveyed by the three types of retinal cone photoreceptors in an opponent fashion. This opponency is thought to reduce redundant information by decorrelating the photoreceptor signals. Correlations in the receptor signals are caused by the substantial overlap of the spectral sensitivities of the receptors, but it is not clear to what extent ...

Sn02 nanowires with diameters of 30 — 200 nm have been synthesized by using carbothermalprocess via a thick film of tin dioxide and carbon powder precursor. The nanowires werecharacterized by X-ray power diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM),transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Selected Area Electron Diffraction (SAED).The gas sensing characteristic of nanowires toward eth...

Guided by a recent theory that proposes fundamental differences in how autistic individuals deal with uncertainty, we investigated the extent to which the cognitive construct 'intolerance of uncertainty' and anxiety were related to parental reports of sensory sensitivities in 64 autistic and 85 typically developing children aged 6-14 years. Intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety explained appro...