Topic: visual fields

Our visual experience of living in a three-dimensional world is created from the information contained in the two-dimensional images projected into our eyes. The overlapping visual fields of the two eyes mean that their images are highly correlated, and that the small differences that are present represent an important cue to depth. Binocular neurons encode this information in a way that both maximises efficiency and optimises disparity tuning for the depth structures that are found in our natural environment. Neural network models provide a clear account of how these binocular neurons encode

Several studies have showed that face stimuli elicit extremely fast and involuntary saccadic responses toward them, relative to other categories of visual stimuli. In the talk, I will mainly focus on a quite recent research done in our team that investigated to what extent face stimuli influence the programming and execution of saccades. In this research, two experiments were performed using a saccadic choice task: two images (one with a face, one with a vehicle) were simultaneously displayed in the left and right visual fields of participants who had to execute a saccade toward the image (Exp

Cases with visuospatial abnormalities provide opportunities for understanding the underlying cognitive mechanisms. Three cases of visual mirror-reversal have been reported: AH (McCloskey, 2009), TM (McCloskey, Valtonen, & Sherman, 2006) and PR (Pflugshaupt et al., 2007). This research reports a fourth case, BS -- with focal occipital cortical dysgenesis -- who displays highly unusual visuospatial abnormalities. They initially produced mirror reversal errors similar to those of AH, who -- like the patient in question -- showed a selective developmental deficit. Extensive examination of BS revea