Katie, I am doing an in-depth  review of literature  and visual research and incorporating it into a  new article that further explains how the on -center and off -center photoreceptors integrate with lateral geniculate body and cortex via fast brain oscillations . It is an advancement of the  visual consciousness article we wrote last year . 

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Hi Katie,

Just for info, you might be interested in following this recently started Q&A topic on visual information and representation:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_the_eyes_take_in_visual_information/1

Although its question and current answers are primarily from the perspectives of theoretical and philosophical psychology, and of general visual cognitive science, rather than specifically of neural substrates and processing-architecture, you might find their content relevant and stimulating as regards "current understanding of how the brain works". The topic's scope is certainly not limited to the aforementioned perspectives and, I suspect, will increasingly refer to neuroscience findings as answers continue to come in.

Recent answers have drawn attention to the extensive pioneering work of Jan Koenderink on visual feature-discrimination at different levels of complex representation. One of Koenderink's involvements is with the inter-disciplinary GestaltReVision Project. The link below will take you to its Publications home-page; you might find some of its papers of value.

http://www.gestaltrevision.be/en/our-publications

Regards and good luck!

Ravinder,

A super article - thanks for posting it!

Good wishes!

Richard. 

Thank you for the feedback. I found it to all of the resources to be useful and informative. I really appreciate the input!

Katie Kinsey

Visual impressions are converted into and stored as

tuples of symbols. Imagine the view of a cluttered

desktop: from a glance you can only keep a

working memory -ful of items. I'd like to

mention Kim's Game.

Visual working memory is restricted in capacity

to the Miller constant. On the other hand, we

don't have one working memory for auditory

and one for visual items: we only have a single

working memory for items of any modality, in

a neutral currency, the symbols.

Packets stored in long term memory can only

be recalled in a reliable way if any packet fits

entirely into working memory. Bigger data

structures can be made by linking pairs

of tuples by containing the same symbol,

like the equi-join in relational databases.

Literature

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-04-visual-network-human-brain.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6222804_Visual_working_memory_represents_a_fixed_number_of_items_regardless_of_complexity

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/18/7/622

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-visual-memory-specialized-brain-encoding.html

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-evidence-visual-ability-group.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-04/niom-bsp041604.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/bu-sas021607.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/gumc-bpw042409.php

http://phys.org/news/2005-11-matrix-closer-reality-neuroscientists-code.html

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-brain-code-visual-memory-deciphered.html

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/516254/

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-brain-scanning-technique-scientists-brain-visual.html

http://memory.ucr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sudden_Death.pdf

http://www.pnas.org/content/102/24/8776.full

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-07/gumc-ftf073107.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/isoa-tco080913.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/niom-ibw110212.php

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uocm-nba011112.php

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24023425_Decoding_reveals_the_content_of_visual_working_memory_in_early_visual_areas

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050962

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004003

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003963

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003167

http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002536

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-08/vu-aaa080102.php

http://www.pashler.com/Articles/Huang_Pashler_PR2007.pdf

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/afps-nsd082907.php

Regards,

Joachim

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