Neural Pathways Conveying Novisual Information to the Visual Cortex by Wen Qin, Chunshui Yu

“…The visual cortex has been traditionally considered as a stimulus-driven, unimodal system with a hierarchical organization. …”
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Classification of Visual Cortex Plasticity Phenotypes following Treatment for Amblyopia by Justin L. Balsor, David G. Jones, Kathryn M. Murphy

“…Monocular deprivation (MD) during the critical period (CP) has enduring effects on visual acuity and the functioning of the visual cortex (V1). This experience-dependent plasticity has become a model for studying the mechanisms, especially glutamatergic and GABAergic receptors, that regulate amblyopia. …”
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Aerobic Exercise and Human Visual Cortex Neuroplasticity: A Narrative Review by Dania Abuleil, Benjamin Thompson, Kristine Dalton

“…There is compelling evidence from animal models that physical exercise can enhance visual cortex neuroplasticity. In this narrative review, we explored whether exercise has the same effect in humans. …”
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BACE1 Is Necessary for Experience-Dependent Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity in Visual Cortex by Emily Petrus, Hey-Kyoung Lee

“…We previously reported that Arc is critical for sensory experience-dependent homeostatic reduction of excitatory synaptic transmission in the superficial layers of visual cortex. Here we demonstrate that mice lacking the major neuronal β-secretase, BACE1, exhibit a similar phenotype: stronger basal excitatory synaptic transmission and failure to adapt to changes in visual experience. …”
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All-or-none activity as a correlate of object awareness in monkey visual cortex by Anne‑Claire Collet, Roger Koenig‑Robert, Denis Fize, Rufin VanRullen

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Potential Role of Synaptic Activity to Inhibit LTD Induction in Rat Visual Cortex by Matthew R. Stewart, Hans C. Dringenberg

“…Under these conditions, LFS applied to the lateral geniculate nucleus resulted in LTD of field postsynaptic potentials (fPSPs) recorded in the primary visual cortex (V1). Pairing LFS with stimulation of the brainstem (pedunculopontine) reticular formation resulted in the appearance of faster, more complex activity in V1 and prevented LTD induction, an effect that did not require muscarinic or nicotinic receptors. …”
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The maturation of infant and toddler visual cortex neural activity and associations with fine motor performance by Katharina Otten, J. Christopher Edgar, Heather L. Green, Kylie Mol, Marybeth McNamee, Emily S. Kuschner, Mina Kim, Song Liu, Hao Huang, Marisa Nordt, Kerstin Konrad, Yuhan Chen

“…Our understanding of how visual cortex neural processes mature during infancy and toddlerhood is limited. …”
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IGF-1 Restores Visual Cortex Plasticity in Adult Life by Reducing Local GABA Levels by José Fernando Maya-Vetencourt, Laura Baroncelli, Alessandro Viegi, Ettore Tiraboschi, Eero Castren, Antonino Cattaneo, Lamberto Maffei

“…Exogenous administration of IGF-1 in the adult visual cortex, indeed, restores the susceptibility of cortical neurons to monocular deprivation and promotes the recovery of normal visual functions in adult amblyopic animals. …”
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Evidence for Individual Face Discrimination in Non-Face Selective Areas of the Visual Cortex in Acquired Prosopagnosia by Laurence Dricot, Bettina Sorger, Christine Schiltz, Rainer Goebel, Bruno Rossion

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APOE4 and sedentary lifestyle synergistically impair neurovascular function in the visual cortex of awake mice by Silvia Anderle, Orla Bonnar, Joseph Henderson, Kira Shaw, Andre M. Chagas, Letitia McMullan, Alexandra Webber, Kirsty McGowan, Sarah L. King, Catherine N. Hall

“…Using in vivo two-photon microscopy and haemodynamic measures, we record neurovascular function from the visual cortex of physically active or sedentary mice expressing APOE3 and APOE4 in place of murine APOE. …”
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Unexpected events trigger task-independent signaling in VIP and excitatory neurons of mouse visual cortex by Farzaneh Najafi, Simone Russo, Jérôme Lecoq

“…Summary: The visual cortex predicts incoming sensory stimuli through internal models that are updated following unexpected events. …”
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Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Localising insights from right visual cortex stroke complicated by epilepsia partialis continua by Gashirai K. Mbizvo, Viraj Bharambe, Brython Hywel, Shubhabrata Biswas, Andrew J. Larner

“…We present a case of Alice in Wonderland syndrome in association with a right posterior/visual cortex infarction with subsequent seizures including focal motor status (epilepsia partialis continua), the latter a hitherto unreported association. …”
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The Generation and Modulation of Distinct Gamma Oscillations with Local, Horizontal, and Feedback Connections in the Primary Visual Cortex: A Model Study on Large-Scale Networks by Chuanliang Han, Tian Wang, Yujie Wu, Yang Li, Yi Yang, Liang Li, Yizheng Wang, Dajun Xing

“…Here, we aimed to understand this question in a large-scale network model for the primary visual cortex (V1). We created a computational model composed of multiple excitatory and inhibitory units with biologically plausible connectivity patterns for RC, FF, FB, and HC in V1; then, we quantitated GAMMA in network models at different strength levels of HC and other connection types. …”
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Age-Dependent Switch of the Role of Serotonergic 5-HT1A Receptors in Gating Long-Term Potentiation in Rat Visual Cortex In Vivo by Peter J. Gagolewicz, Hans C. Dringenberg

“…The rodent primary visual cortex (V1) is densely innervated by serotonergic axons and previous in vitro work has shown that serotonin (5-HT) can modulate plasticity (e.g., long-term potentiation (LTP)) at V1 synapses. …”
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Cross-Modal Functional Reorganization of Visual and Auditory Cortex in Adult Cochlear Implant Users Identified with fNIRS by Ling-Chia Chen, Pascale Sandmann, Jeremy D. Thorne, Martin G. Bleichner, Stefan Debener

“…Higher cross-modal activations were confirmed in both auditory and visual cortex for CI users compared to NH controls, demonstrating that functional reorganization of both auditory and visual cortex can be identified with fNIRS. …”
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Disrupted Dynamic Functional Connectivity of the Visual Network in Episodic Patients with Migraine without Aura by Heng-Le Wei, Tian Tian, Gang-Ping Zhou, Jin-Jin Wang, Xi Guo, Yu-Chen Chen, Yu-Sheng Yu, Xindao Yin, Junrong Li, Hong Zhang

“…The purpose was to assess the association between dynamic functional connectivity (dFC) of the visual cortex and clinical characteristics in migraine without aura (MwoA) patients. …”
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Gustatory-Visual Interaction in Human Brain Cortex: fNIRS Study by Karolina Jezierska, Aneta Cymbaluk-Płoska, Justyna Zaleska, Wojciech Podraza

“…Background: Many studies, for example, on taste-visual dissonance, have shown that the influence of the visual cortex on taste sensation is enormous. The presented work aims to investigate, using fNIRS, whether a taste stimulus, in this case, the taste of bitter, also causes stimulation of the visual cortex in the fNIRS study. …”
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Altered Spontaneous Brain Activity of Children with Unilateral Amblyopia: A Resting State fMRI Study by Peishan Dai, Jinlong Zhang, Jing Wu, Zailiang Chen, Beiji Zou, Ying Wu, Xin Wei, Manyi Xiao

“…The ROIs-FC between the default mode network, salience network, and primary visual cortex network (PVCN) were significantly reduced, whereas the ROIs-FC between the PVCN and the high-level visual cortex network were significantly increased in amblyopia. …”
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Hierarchical Feature Extraction Assisted with Visual Saliency for Image Quality Assessment by Ruizhe Deng, Yang Zhao, Yong Ding

“…Considering the characteristics of hierarchical visual cortex, a novel full reference IQA method is proposed in this paper. …”
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Vision After Early-Onset Lesions of the Occipital Cortex: II. Physiological Studies by M. G. Knyazeva, P. Maeder, D. C. Kiper, T. Deonna, G. M. Innocenti

“…In one of two patients (MS and FJ) with bilateral, early-onset lesion of the primary visual cortex, Kiper et al. (2002) observed a considerable degree of functional recovery. …”
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