Neural activity plays an important role in development and maturation of visual circuits in the brain. Activity can be instructive in refining visual projections by directly mediating formation and elimination of specific synaptic contacts through competition-based mechanisms. Alternatively, activity could be permissive-regulating production of factors that create a favorable environment for ci...

The human hands form very unique and versatile parts of the body. They explore the environment via tactile and haptic feedback, they manipulate the environment and they communicate with interlocutors. The movements of the hands thus provide the receptive observer with information about the current sensory information state, the current actions or the communicative intent of a subject. Scientifi...

25 Our eyes are constantly moving, allowing us to attend to different visual objects in our 26 environment. With each eye movement, a given object activates an entirely new set of visual 27 neuron, yet we perceive a stable scene. One potential neural mechanism for stable perception is 28 the phenomenon of remapping. Neurons in lateral intraparietal cortex (area LIP), frontal eye 29 fields (FEF)...

Our eyes are constantly moving, allowing us to attend to different visual objects in the environment. With each eye movement, a given object activates an entirely new set of visual neurons, yet we perceive a stable scene. One neural mechanism that may contribute to visual stability is remapping. Neurons in several brain regions respond to visual stimuli presented outside the receptive field whe...