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Suppressive mechanisms in visual motion processing: From perception to intelligence.
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- Asymmetric stimulus representations bias visual perceptual learning.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Investigating causal effects of pupil size on visual discrimination and visually evoked potentials in an optotype discrimination task.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Detection of vertical interocular phase disparities using luster as cue.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Asymmetries in the discrimination of motion direction around the visual field.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Visual orientation discrimination skills are tightly linked with specific aspects of human intelligence.PloS one · 2023Article
- Spatially distributed computation in cortical circuits.Science advances · 2022Article
- On the interplay of temporal resolution power and spatial suppression in their prediction of psychometric intelligence.PloS one · 2022Article
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- White matter deficits correlate with visual motion perception impairments in dyslexic carriers of the DCDC2 genetic risk variant.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Reduced surround suppression in monocular motion perception.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Detection of scene-relative object movement and optic flow parsing across the adult lifespan.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Weaker neural suppression in autism.Nature communications · 2020Article
- Spatial suppression promotes rapid figure-ground segmentation of moving objects.Nature communications · 2019Article
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Abstract
Perception operates on an immense amount of incoming information that greatly exceeds the brain's processing capacity. Because of this fundamental limitation, the ability to suppress irrelevant information is a key determinant of perceptual efficiency. Here, I will review a series of studies investigating suppressive mechanisms in visual motion processing, namely perceptual suppression of large, background-like motions. These spatial suppression mechanisms are adaptive, operating only when sensory inputs are sufficiently robust to guarantee visibility. Converging correlational and causal evidence links these behavioral results with inhibitory center-surround mechanisms, namely those in cortical area MT. Spatial suppression is abnormally weak in several special populations, including the elderly and individuals with schizophrenia-a deficit that is evidenced by better-than-normal direction discriminations of large moving stimuli. Theoretical work shows that this abnormal weakening of spatial suppression should result in motion segregation deficits, but direct behavioral support of this hypothesis is lacking. Finally, I will argue that the ability to suppress information is a fundamental neural process that applies not only to perception but also to cognition in general. Supporting this argument, I will discuss recent research that shows individual differences in spatial suppression of motion signals strongly predict individual variations in IQ scores.
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