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Everything about Visual cortex
Region of the brain that processes visual information
In mammals, the visual cortex of the brain is the area of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information. The visual cortex is located in the occipital lobe, located at the rear of the head. Sensory input originating from the eyes travels through the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus and then reaches the visual cortex. The area of the visual cortex that receives the sensory input from the lateral geniculate nucleus is the primary visual cortex, also known as visual area 1 (V1), Brodmann area 17, or the striate cortex. The extrastriate areas consist of visual areas 2, 3, 4, and 5. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Visual cortexA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortexInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The primate visual systemThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortexCited 10,752 times
- Go sideways: Colour centreA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Visual modularityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The part of the cerebral cortex that processes visual information.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex
Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects
Oscillatory responses in cat visual cortex exhibit inter-columnar synchronization which reflects global stimulus properties
THE HUMAN VISUAL CORTEX
Primary visual cortex and visual awareness
Hebbian synapses in visual cortex
Motion Opponency in Visual Cortex
Remapping in Human Visual Cortex
🆕 Influential since 2022
Functional connectomics spanning multiple areas of mouse visual cortex
Visual Attention in the Prefrontal Cortex
The Butterfly Effect in Primary Visual Cortex
How ‘visual’ is the visual cortex? The interactions between the visual cortex and other sensory, motivational and motor systems as enabling factors for visual perception
High-level visual prediction errors in early visual cortex
📚 Books worth reading
The primate visual systemJon H. Kaas · 2003
Blindness and brain plasticity in navigation and object perceptionJohn J. Rieser · 2007
Synaptic Modification, Neuron Selectivity, and Nervous System OrganizationJames A. Anderson, William B. Levy · 1985
Neuroscience of Visual HallucinationsDaniel Collerton · 2014
The Speed of ThoughtMartin J. Tovee · 1998
Perceptual learningManfred Fahle · 2002
The New Visual NeurosciencesLeo M. Chalupa, Wolfgang Baehr · 2013
The visual neurosciencesLeo M. Chalupa · 2003
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🔗 Related topics
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- Visual modularity In cognitive neuroscience, visual modularity is an organizational concept concerning how vision works. The way in which the primate visual system operates…
- Binocular neurons Binocular neurons are neurons in the visual system that assist in the creation of stereopsis from binocular disparity. They have been found in the primary…
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- Inferior temporal gyrus The inferior temporal gyrus is one of three gyri of the temporal lobe and is located below the middle temporal gyrus, connected behind with the inferior…
- Koniocellular cell In neuroscience, koniocellular cells, also called K-cells, are relatively small neurons located in the koniocellular layer of the lateral geniculate nucleus…
- Glob (visual system) Globs are millimeter-sized color modules found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's color processing ventral (also known as parvocellular) pathway…
- Retinotopy Retinotopy (from Greek τόπος (tópos) 'place') is the mapping of visual input from the retina to neurons, particularly those neurons within the visual stream…