"Modeling vision based on a linear receptive field poses several inherent problems: it changes with each input, it presupposes a set of basis functions for the visual system, and it conflicts with ...

One theory about why the visual system is arranged hierarchically is that it helps with object recognition. If receptive fields were tiny, the brain would need to integrate more information to ...

To do so, they trained macaque monkeys — a species whose visual systems and abilities are most similar to humans — to fixate on the center of a screen while visual stimuli were presented in and ...

22 calibre bullet), but they also hold the world record for the most complex visual system. They have up to ... and allows the mantis shrimp to have a large field of view. Many animals are known ...

How that visual 'clutter' affects visual processing ... while visual stimuli were presented in and outside of their receptive fields. During this task, researchers recorded neural activity in ...