ON and OFF thalamic afferents from the two eyes converge in the primary visual cortex to form binocular receptive fields. The receptive fields need to be diverse to sample our visual world but also similar across eyes to achieve binocular fusion. It is currently unknown how the cortex balances these competing needs between receptive-field diversity and similarity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost decisions require information gathering from a stimulus presented with different gaps. However, the neural mechanism underlying this integration is ambiguous. Recently, it has been claimed that humans can optimally integrate the information of two discrete pulses independent of the temporal gap between them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBias in perceptual decisions can be generally defined as an effect which is controlled by factors other than the decision-relevant information (e.g., perceptual information in a perceptual task, when trials are independent).
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