Polar Angle Asymmetries in Visual Perception and Neural Architecture

Overview

Journal Trends Neurosci

Specialty Neurology

Date 2023 Apr 8

PMID 37031051

Authors

Marc M Himmelberg

Jonathan Winawer

Marisa Carrasco

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Abstract

Human visual performance changes with visual field location. It is best at the center of gaze and declines with eccentricity, and also varies markedly with polar angle. These perceptual polar angle asymmetries are linked to asymmetries in the organization of the visual system. We review and integrate research quantifying how performance changes with visual field location and how this relates to neural organization at multiple stages of the visual system. We first briefly review how performance varies with eccentricity and the neural foundations of this effect. We then focus on perceptual polar angle asymmetries and their neural foundations. Characterizing perceptual and neural variations across and around the visual field contributes to our understanding of how the brain translates visual signals into neural representations which form the basis of visual perception.

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