Anatomical data suggest that visual information from the thalamofugal pathway contributes to visual processing in the tectofugal pathway. We addressed the question of the functionality of anatomically described connections to the visual system of a laterally eyed bird, the zebra finch. The study shows the contribution of visual wulst efferents, to visual processing in the ectostriatum by record...

Baumgartner and colleagues (this issue) report a replication of an ERP study by Kelly, Gomez-Ramirez, and Foxe (2008). Unlike the original authors, they failed to observe a significant modulation of the C1 by visuo-spatial attention. They conclude that initial afferent processing in V1 is impermeable to visuo-spatial attention. Although their study, like any replication effort, is valuable and ...

The watercolor effect is a visual illusion that manifests itself as a combination of long-range color spreading and figure-ground organization. The current study uses behavioral and physiological measures to study the watercolor effect. We utilize a novel technique of measuring the cortical response of the illusion using the visual evoked potential (VEP). To this end, three experiments were don...

this paper presents a new coding method for image compression based on jpeg2000 and contourlet transform. jpeg2000 standard is a common standard that uses discrete wavelet transform (dwt) in the compression process. the main problems of dwt are failure to detect curved edges in image and its shortage representation of the ridge and furrow patterns which cause deficiency and block artifacts rema...

This report describes the frequency response of the oddball paradigm upon auditory stimuli. Other reports related to wavelet analysis of the same ERPs (Demiralp et al., 1999) and the application of visual signals (Schürmann et al., this volume) indicate that the P300 response has a dominant delta response oscillation, independent of the modality of the stimulation. Moreover, the adaptive digita...

in this paper, we present an edge detection method based on wavelet transform and hessian matrix of image at each pixel. many methods which based on wavelet transform, use wavelet transform to approximate the gradient of image and detect edges by searching the modulus maximum of gradient vectors. in our scheme, we use wavelet transform to approximate hessian matrix of image at each pixel, too. ...

Attention was directed to the left or to the right of the fixation point by the lateral presentation of a target on which the subject had to perform an attention demanding task. A (task-irrelevant) grating displayed in the left visual field was the visual evoked potential (VEP) stimulus. Gratings modulated either in luminance or colour contrast at various temporal frequencies were used in order...

The evidence relating prenatal supplementation with DHA to offspring neurological development is limited. We investigated the effect of prenatal DHA supplementation on infant brainstem auditory-evoked responses and visualevoked potentials in a double-blind, randomized controlled trial in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Pregnant women were supplemented daily with 400 mg DHA or placebo from gestationwk 18–22...

A new method to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of single evoked potentials (EP) measurements is presented, in which, contrary to previous methods, no a priori assumptions on the signal are necessary. This method is based on the wavelets decomposition of the individual signals. A statistical thresholding is applied on the coefficients of the decomposition: we estimate whether the mean value o...