Topic: Visual textures

Visual textures efficiently represent real-world information that is essential for perceptual tasks like pattern detection, object segmentation and classification. This information appears to be encoded in intermediate areas along the primate ventral visual stream (areas V2-V4), but how textural selectivity emerges at the circuit level, and whether the neural architectures that support texture processing are shared across mammalian species is currently unknown. We addressed these questions in the mouse by first examining the mouse’s perceptual ability to discriminate higher order texture stat