Space Perception

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A continuous attractor network model without recurrent excitation: maintenance and integration in the head direction cell system. 
  • A large-scale distributed network for covert spatial attention: further anatomical delineation based on stringent behavioural and cognitive controls. 
  • A quality assurance study on the accuracy of measuring physical function under current conditions for use of clinical video telehealth. 
  • A statistical explanation of visual space. 
  • Activation in mesolimbic and visuospatial neural circuits elicited by smoking cues: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Aerobic fitness is associated with hippocampal volume in elderly humans. 
  • Afferent delays and the mislocalization of perisaccadic stimuli. 
  • Age similarities in the inertial properties of attention. 
  • Age-independent and dose-response effects of ethanol on spatial memory in rats. 
  • Age-related alterations in potentiation in the CA1 region in F344 rats. 
  • An analysis of immediate serial recall performance in a macaque. 
  • An electrophysiological dissociation of craving and stimulus-dependent attentional capture in smokers. 
  • An empirical explanation of the flash-lag effect. 
  • Anticonvulsant action and long-term effects of gabapentin in the immature brain. 
  • Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. 
  • Apolipoprotein E-low density lipoprotein receptor interaction affects spatial memory retention and brain ApoE levels in an isoform-dependent manner. 
  • Arrow-elicited cueing effects at short intervals: Rapid attentional orienting or cue-target stimulus conflict? 
  • Asymmetry of neuronal activity during extracellular microelectrode recording from left and right human temporal lobe neocortex during rhyming and line-matching. 
  • Auditory signals evolve from hybrid- to eye-centered coordinates in the primate superior colliculus. 
  • Cerebral lateralization in individuals diagnosed as autistic in early childhood. 
  • Chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit divergent spatial memory development. 
  • Chlorpyrifos exposure of developing zebrafish: effects on survival and long-term effects on response latency and spatial discrimination. 
  • Choline-induced spatial memory facilitation correlates with altered distribution and morphology of septal neurons. 
  • Chronic neuroleptic effects on spatial reversal learning in monkeys. 
  • Classifying intergral stimuli. 
  • Colorful success: preschoolers' use of perceptual color cues to solve a spatial reasoning problem. 
  • Combined organizational and activational effects of short and long photoperiods on spatial and temporal memory in rats. 
  • Comparative tests of primate cognition: different scaling methods produce different results. 
  • Comparison of the spatial limits on direction selectivity in visual areas MT and V1. 
  • Cortical Brain Activity Reflecting Attentional Biasing Toward Reward-Predicting Cues Covaries with Economic Decision-Making Performance. 
  • Cue-invariant networks for figure and background processing in human visual cortex. 
  • Deconvolution of event-related fMRI responses in fast-rate experimental designs: tracking amplitude variations. 
  • Delayed striate cortical activation during spatial attention. 
  • Dementia severity and pattern of cognitive performance in vascular dementia. 
  • Differential functional roles of slow-wave and oscillatory-α activity in visual sensory cortex during anticipatory visual-spatial attention. 
  • Discriminating signs: perceptual precursors to acquiring a visual-gestural language. 
  • Dissociating top-down attentional control from selective perception and action. 
  • Dogs (Canis familiaris) account for body orientation but not visual barriers when responding to pointing gestures. 
  • Dynamics of networks of randomly connected excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons. 
  • Effects of spatial cuing on luminance detectability: psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence for early selection. 
  • Efficient coding of spatial information in the primate retina. 
  • Emotional curiosity: modulation of visuospatial attention by arousal is preserved in aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Encoding and retrieving faces and places: distinguishing process- and stimulus-specific differences in brain activity. 
  • Eye-centered, head-centered, and complex coding of visual and auditory targets in the intraparietal sulcus. 
  • Figure-ground interaction in the human visual cortex. 
  • Form-from-motion: MEG evidence for time course and processing sequence. 
  • Functional Clusters of Neurons in Layer 6 of Macaque V1. 
  • Functional MR imaging using a visually guided saccade paradigm for comparing activation patterns in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease and in cognitively able elderly volunteers. 
  • Functional connectivity: a source of variance in the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and cognition? 
  • Functional parcellation of attentional control regions of the brain. 
  • Functional specificity of callosal connections in tree shrew striate cortex. 
  • Graded Neuronal Modulations Related to Visual Spatial Attention. 
  • Hemispheric asymmetry and aging: right hemisphere decline or asymmetry reduction. 
  • High-resolution echo-planar fMRI of human visual cortex at 3.0 tesla. 
  • III. Electrophysiological studies of face processing in Williams syndrome. 
  • Identification and the form of multidimensional discrimination space. 
  • Interindividual variation in human visual performance. 
  • Investigation of the effects of temporal and spatial interactions on speech-recognition skills in cochlear-implant subjects. 
  • Lateralized auditory spatial perception and the contralaterality of cortical processing as studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography. 
  • Learning to control a brain-machine interface for reaching and grasping by primates. 
  • Learning to use prepositions: a case study. 
  • Left hemisphere specialization for facial and manual imitation. 
  • Looking at the ventriloquist: visual outcome of eye movements calibrates sound localization. 
  • Mechanisms of moving the mind's eye: planning and execution of spatial shifts of attention. 
  • Mechanisms of oleoylethanolamide-induced changes in feeding behavior and motor activity. 
  • Motor-related signals in the intraparietal cortex encode locations in a hybrid, rather than eye-centered reference frame. 
  • Multisensory guidance of orienting behavior. 
  • Multisensory processing and oscillatory gamma responses: effects of spatial selective attention. 
  • Natural-scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientation. 
  • Network level properties of short-term plasticity in the somatosensory system. 
  • Neural integration of top-down spatial and feature-based information in visual search. 
  • Neural mechanisms mediating contingent capture of attention by affective stimuli. 
  • Neural mechanisms of top-down control during spatial and feature attention. 
  • Neural processes underlying the orienting of attention without awareness. 
  • Neuroanatomic overlap of working memory and spatial attention networks: a functional MRI comparison within subjects. 
  • Neurocognitive and electrophysiological evidence of altered face processing in parents of children with autism: implications for a model of abnormal development of social brain circuitry in autism. 
  • Neurocognitive impairments in boys on the life-course persistent antisocial path. 
  • Neurocognitive predictors of social and communicative developmental trajectories in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Neuropsychiatric complications after temporal lobe limbic system surgery. 
  • Neuropsychological status of subjects at high risk for a first episode of psychosis. 
  • Nicotinic antagonist administration into the ventral hippocampus and spatial working memory in rats. 
  • Object shape processing in the visual system evaluated using functional MRI. 
  • On the link between mind wandering and task performance over time. 
  • Optimizing a linear algorithm for real-time robotic control using chronic cortical ensemble recordings in monkeys. 
  • Parietal lobe and episodic memory: bilateral damage causes impaired free recall of autobiographical memory. 
  • Performance of patients with schizophrenia on a pen and paper visuospatial working memory task with short delay. 
  • Perspective and the rotating trapezoid. 
  • Pinna reflections as cues for localization. 
  • Pre-target activity in visual cortex predicts behavioral performance on spatial and feature attention tasks. 
  • Preparatory neural activity predicts performance on a conflict task. 
  • Range image statistics can explain the anomalous perception of length. 
  • Relationship between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease and cognition in cognitively normal older adults. 
  • Responses of neurons in the medial superior temporal visual area to apparent motion stimuli in macaque monkeys. 
  • Retention of VOR gain following short-term VOR adaptation. 
  • Saccades exert spatial control of motion processing for smooth pursuit eye movements. 
  • Scaled medial axis representation: evidence from position discrimination task. 
  • Scopolamine effects on Hamilton search task performance in monkeys. 
  • Search for a threatening target triggers limbic guidance of spatial attention. 
  • Searching from the top down: ageing and attentional guidance during singleton detection. 
  • Selective deletion of GRK2 alters psychostimulant-induced behaviors and dopamine neurotransmission. 
  • Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of natural scene geometry. 
  • Spatial and temporal scales of neuronal correlation in visual area V4. 
  • Spatial attention evokes similar activation patterns for visual and auditory stimuli. 
  • Spatial generalization of learning in smooth pursuit eye movements: implications for the coordinate frame and sites of learning. 
  • Spatial imagery preserves temporal order. 
  • Spatial memory and hippocampal plasticity are differentially sensitive to the availability of choline in adulthood as a function of choline supply in utero. 
  • Spatial memory retention is enhanced by acute and continuous estradiol replacement. 
  • Spatial performance correlates with in vitro potentiation in young and aged Fischer 344 rats. 
  • Spatial properties and functional organization of small bistratified ganglion cells in primate retina. 
  • Spatiotemporal memory is an intrinsic property of networks of dissociated cortical neurons. 
  • Spatiotemporal properties of layer V neurons of the rat primary somatosensory cortex. 
  • Spectral sensitivity, spatial resolution and temporal resolution and their implications for conspecific signalling in cleaner shrimp. 
  • Stimulus-Driven Attention, Threat Bias, and Sad Bias in Youth with a History of an Anxiety Disorder or Depression. 
  • Structure--function spatial covariance in the human visual cortex. 
  • Studying the effects of stereo, head tracking, and field of regard on a small-scale spatial judgment task. 
  • Surgery results in exaggerated and persistent cognitive decline in a rat model of the Metabolic Syndrome. 
  • Test-retest reliability of the dot test of visuospatial working memory in patients with schizophrenia and controls. 
  • The "other" transformation required for visual-auditory integration: representational format. 
  • The Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image-source relationships. 
  • The development and stability of estrogen-modulated spatial navigation strategies in female rats. 
  • The development of direction selectivity in ferret visual cortex requires early visual experience. 
  • The effect of a moving distractor on the initiation of smooth-pursuit eye movements. 
  • The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees. 
  • The large-scale neural network for spatial attention displays multifunctional overlap but differential asymmetry. 
  • The neural circuitry underlying the executive control of auditory spatial attention. 
  • The neural dynamics of stimulus and response conflict processing as a function of response complexity and task demands. 
  • The organizational effects of gonadal steroids on sexually dimorphic spatial ability. 
  • The short and long of it: neural correlates of temporal-order memory for autobiographical events. 
  • The structure of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of children and chimpanzees. 
  • The temporal dynamics of object processing in visual cortex during the transition from distributed to focused spatial attention. 
  • The temporal dynamics of the effects in occipital cortex of visual-spatial selective attention. 
  • Three-dimensional arm movements at constant equi-affine speed. 
  • Timing and sequence of brain activity in top-down control of visual-spatial attention. 
  • TrkB signaling is required for behavioral sensitization and conditioned place preference induced by a single injection of cocaine. 
  • Unique Spatial Integration in Mouse Primary Visual Cortex and Higher Visual Areas. 
  • Video game players show more precise multisensory temporal processing abilities. 
  • Visual experience promotes the isotropic representation of orientation preference. 
  • Watching my mind unfold versus yours: an fMRI study using a novel camera technology to examine neural differences in self-projection of self versus other perspectives. 
  • Water maze experience and prenatal choline supplementation differentially promote long-term hippocampal recovery from seizures in adulthood. 
  • Wayfinding and Glaucoma: A Virtual Reality Experiment. 
  • Zebrafish assessment of cognitive improvement and anxiolysis: filling the gap between in vitro and rodent models for drug development. 
  • fMRI evidence for both generalized and specialized components of attentional control. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Appelbaum, Lawrence Gregory, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Groh, Jennifer M., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Henriquez, Craig S., Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
  • Schmehl, Meredith, Student, Neurobiology