scholarly journals The Magnocellular visual pathway and the flash-lag illusion

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 24-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Chappell ◽  
K. T. Mullen
2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Eric T. Taylor ◽  
Davood G. Gozli ◽  
David Chan ◽  
Greg Huffman ◽  
Jay Pratt

AbstractA growing body of evidence demonstrates that human vision operates differently in the space near and on the hands; for example, early findings in this literature reported that rapid onsets are detected faster near the hands, and that objects are searched more thoroughly. These and many other effects were attributed to enhanced attention via the recruitment of bimodal visual-tactile neurons representing the hand and near-hand space. However, recent research supports an alternative account: stimuli near the hands are preferentially processed by the action-oriented magnocellular visual pathway at the expense of processing in the parvocellular pathway. This Modulated Visual Pathways (MVP) account of altered vision near the hands describes a hand position-dependent trade-off between the two main retinal-cortical visual pathways between the eye and brain. The MVP account explains past findings and makes new predictions regarding near-hand vision supported by new research.


Nature ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 371 (6497) ◽  
pp. 511-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Burr ◽  
M. Concetta Morrone ◽  
John Ross

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Hammarrenger ◽  
Marie-Sylvie Roy ◽  
Dave Ellemberg ◽  
Mélanie Labrosse ◽  
Jacqueline Orquin ◽  
...  

2007 ◽  
Vol 104 (3) ◽  
pp. 881-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Barnes ◽  
Lisa Hinkley ◽  
Stuart Masters ◽  
Laura Boubert

Representational Momentum refers to observers' distortion of recognition memory for pictures that imply motion because of an automatic mental process which extrapolates along the implied trajectory of the picture. Neuroimaging evidence suggests that activity in the magnocellular visual pathway is necessary for representational momentum to occur. It has been proposed that individuals with dyslexia have a magnocellular deficit, so it was hypothesised that these individuals would show reduced or absent representational momentum. In this study, 30 adults with dyslexia and 30 age-matched controls were compared on two tasks, one linear and one rotation, which had previously elicited the representational momentum effect. Analysis indicated significant differences in the performance of the two groups, with the dyslexia group having a reduced susceptibility to representational momentum in both linear and rotational directions. The findings highlight that deficits in temporal spatial processing may contribute to the perceptual profile of dyslexia.


Neuron ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 1135-1146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumya Chatterjee ◽  
Edward M. Callaway

2012 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey W. Stuart ◽  
Sandra E. Lambeth ◽  
Ross H. Day ◽  
Ian C. Gould ◽  
Anne E. Castles

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