Visual Neuroscience is turning twenty

Twenty Years of Exciting Neuroscience

Twenty years ago, Neuron was launched with the aim of providing a forum for the publication of research in cellular and molecular neurobiology. In the late eighties, molecular biology had exploded as a field and was providing powerful new experimental tools for probing cellular function. The founding editors of the journal—Zach Hall, A.J. Hudspeth, Eric Kandel, and Louis Reichardt— envisioned t...

Social Neuroscience of the Twenty-First Century

Social species are so characterized because they form organizations that extend beyond the individual. The goal of social neuroscience is to investigate the biological mechanisms that underlie these social structures, processes, and behaviors and the influences between social and neural structures and processes. Such an endeavor is challenging because it necessitates the integration of multiple...

Abstracts from the Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience

a computational visual neuroscience model for object recognition

in this study with the inspirations from both neuroscience and computer science, a combinatorial framework for object recognition was proposed having benefited from the advantages of both biologically-inspired hmax_s architecture model for feature extraction and extreme learning machine (elm) as a classifier. hmax model is a feed-forward hierarchical structure resembling the ventral pathway in ...

Turning visual search time on its head

Our everyday visual experience frequently involves searching for objects in clutter. Why are some searches easy and others hard? It is generally believed that the time taken to find a target increases as it becomes similar to its surrounding distractors. Here, I show that while this is qualitatively true, the exact relationship is in fact not linear. In a simple search experiment, when subjects...