Everything about Visual modularity

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Visual modularityA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Altered visual network modularity and communication in ADHD subtypes: Classification via source-localized EEG modulesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: PsychologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Modulation of Oscillatory Neuronal Synchronization by Selective Visual AttentionCited 2,329 times
5. Go sideways: Visual cortexA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Colour centreA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Modulation of Oscillatory Neuronal Synchronization by Selective Visual Attention

  Pascal Fries, John H. Reynolds, Alan E. Rorie · 2001 · Science · 2,329 citations

• Modularity in the Organization of Mouse Primary Visual Cortex

  Weiqing Ji, Răzvan Gămănuţ, Pawan Bista · 2015 · Neuron · 109 citations

• The autonomy of the visual systems and the modularity of conscious vision

  The American Association for Research into Nervous and Mental Diseases, S. Zeki, A. Bartels · 1998 · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · 69 citations

• Visual spatial constancy and modularity: Does intention penetrate vision?

  Wayne Wu · 2012 · Philosophical Studies · 44 citations

• Does Visual Modularity Increase Over the Course of Development?

  Karen R. Dobkins · 2009 · Optometry and Vision Science · 12 citations

• Indexing the World? Visual Tracking, Modularity, and the Perception–Cognition Interface

  Santiago Echeverri · 2016 · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 5 citations

• Visual Neuroscience: A Hat-Trick for Modularity

  Paul E. Downing · 2009 · Current Biology · 3 citations

• Visual Analytic Method for Students’ Association via Modularity Optimization

  XiaoYong Li, QinYang Yu, Yong Zhang · 2020 · Applied Sciences · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Altered visual network modularity and communication in ADHD subtypes: Classification via source-localized EEG modules

  Amir Hossein Ghaderi, Shiva Taghizadeh, Mohammad Ali Nazari · 2025 · Biomedical Signal Processing and Control · 11 citations

• Saccades alter cortical network modularity and decrease lateralization in a visual perception task

  Amirhossein Ghaderi, Matthias Niemeier, John Douglas Crawford · 2023 · Journal of Vision · 2 citations

• Lack of statistical significance is not evidence against modularity in visual feature processing

  Joseph C Griffis, Aaron D Boes · 2025 · Brain · 1 citations

• Reply: Lack of statistical significance is not evidence against modularity in visual feature processing

  Selma Lugtmeijer, Edward H F de Haan, H Steven Scholte · 2025 · Brain · 0 citations

• The Blobulator: A Toolkit for Identification and Visual Exploration of Hydrophobic Modularity in Protein Sequences

  Connor Pitman, Ezry Santiago-McRae, Ruchi Lohia · 2026 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• PsychologyDennis Coon, John O. Mitterer · 2001
• C How to ProgramPaul J. Deitel, Harvey M. Deitel · 2007
• Advertising by designRobin Landa · 2010
• Operations ManagementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard Taylor · 1998
• The personal MBAJosh Kaufman · 2010
• Allez-y!Julia Batters, Anneli McLachlan · 1991
• Computational modelling in behavioural neuroscienceDietmar Heinke, Eirini Mavritsaki · 2009
• UNIX for peoplePeter M. Birns, John C. C. Muster · 1982

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