Partial damage of the primary visual cortex (V1) and optic radiation lesions can cause visual eld de cits restricted to speci c regions of the contralateral visual hemi eld. This thesis has explored the functional properties ...
The brain is dynamic. Spontaneous neuronal activity can be observed in cortical and subcortical regions even in the absence of external inputs. At a large scale, long-range coherent spontaneous fluctuations are thought to ...
One fundamental goal of the brain is to predict sensory events in the environment in
order to spatially direct actions. In vision, the ability to identify and locate objects
depends on two cortical pathways: a ventral ...