Giacomo Benvenuti

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Our "Self" is a simple mental construct/illusion: what are the best references for this?

I want to claim in an article that our Self is a simple and unstable mental representation and not something transcending the neural computation (e.g. a Soul) as it can appear to us. What are the...

22 March 2023 9,444 4 View

Does the pre-synaptic neuron location in a cortical map influences the spatial position of its synapses in the dendrite of the downstream neuron?

Are functional maps in the cortex used by the brain to carry out computations or are they just a byproduct of wiring minimization? A key element to answer this question is to know if, when...

27 January 2021 1,454 8 View

Do you know visual stimuli in which the pop-out of an object-shape can be controlled by a priming cue?

I am looking for visual stimuli that produce a similar effect than the well know “Dalmatian dog illusion” (see Figure attached). If you look briefly at the Dalmatian dog illusion for the first...

04 August 2019 7,890 6 View

How does orientation-discrimination threshold depends on stimulus spatial frequency?

Hi, I am interested in how subject performance are affected by the spatial frequency of the stimulus in a 2-alternative forced choice orientation discrimination task. So far, I have found this old...

29 March 2017 342 3 View

How do ganglion cells detect and encode low spatial frequencies?

Ganglion cells in the retina have relatively small receptive fields (RF) (~1deg or less). If we assume that these neurons work as spatial filters for local contrast, we should expect that spatial...

13 December 2016 8,551 3 View