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Department for Sensory & Sensorimotor Systems}

Liu, C.; Liu, C.; Huber, L.; Zhaoping, L.; Zhang, P.: The superficial layers of the primary visual cortex create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex. PLOS Biology 23 (10), e3003159 (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: Testing the top-down feedback in the central visual field using the reversed depth illusion. iScience 28 (4), 112223 (2025)

Liang, J.; Yang, Z.; Zhou, C.: Excitation-Inhibition Balance, Neural Criticality, and Activities in Neuronal Circuits. Neuroscientist 31 (1), pp. 31 - 46 (2025)

Liang, J.; Zhaoping, L.: Trans-saccadic integration for object recognition peters out with pre-saccadic object eccentricity as target-directed saccades become more saliency-driven. Vision Research 226, 108500 (2025)

Yang, Z.; Liang, J.; Zhou, C.: Critical Avalanches in Excitation-Inhibition Balanced Networks Reconcile Response Reliability with Sensitivity for Optimal Neural Representation. Physical Review Letters 134 (2), 028401 (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: Applying the efficient coding principle to understand encoding of multisensory and multimodality sensory signals. Vision Research 226, 108489 (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: Looking with or without seeing in an individual with age-related macular degeneration impairing central vision. i-Perception 15 (4), 20416695241265821 (2024)

Zhaoping, L.: Peripheral vision is mainly for looking rather than seeing. Neuroscience Research 201, pp. 18 - 26 (2024)

Liang, J.; Maher, S.; Zhaoping, L.: Eye movement evidence for the V1 Saliency Hypothesis and the Central-peripheral Dichotomy theory in an anomalous visual search task. Vision Research 212, 108308 (2023)

Zhaoping, L.; Liu, Y.: The central-peripheral dichotomy and metacontrast masking. Perception 51 (8), pp. 549 - 564 (2023)

Zhaoping, L.: Peripheral and central sensation: Multisensory orienting and recognition across species. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 27 (6), pp. 539 - 552 (2023)

May, K.; Zhaoping, L.: Li and Atick’s theory of efficient binocular coding: A tutorial and mini-review. Vision Research 201, 107950 (2022)

Scaramella, N.; Mausbach, J.; Laurila, A.; Stednitz, S.; Räsänen, K.: Short-term responses of Rana arvalis tadpoles to pH and predator stress: adaptive divergence in behavioural and physiological plasticity? Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology B-Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 192 (5), pp. 669 - 682 (2022)

Liang, J.; Zhou , C.: Criticality enhances the multilevel reliability of stimulus responses in cortical neural networks. PLoS Computational Biology 18 (1) (2022)

Zhaoping, L.: Parallel advantage: further evidence for bottom-up saliency computation by human primary visual cortex. Perception 51 (1), pp. 60 - 69 (2022)

Zhaoping, L.: Contrast-reversed binocular dot-pairs in random-dot stereograms for depth perception in central visual field: Probing the dynamics of feedforward-feedback processes in visual inference. Vision Research 186, pp. 124 - 139 (2021)

Zhaoping, L.: The Flip Tilt Illusion: Visible in Peripheral Vision as Predicted by the Central-Peripheral Dichotomy. i-Perception 11 (4), pp. 1 - 5 (2020)

Zhaoping, L.: Artificial and Natural Intelligence: From Invention to Discovery. Neuron 105 (3), pp. 413 - 415 (2020)

Zhaoping, L.: A new framework for understanding vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 58, pp. 1 - 10 (2019)

May, K.; Zhaoping, L.: Face perception inherits low-level binocular adaptation. Journal of Vision 19 (7), 7, pp. 1 - 10 (2019)

Zhaoping, L.: Probing the maximum speed of top-down feedback for aiding visual recognition using random-dot stereograms. In 47th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2025). 47th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2025), Mainz, Germany, August 24, 2025 - August 28, 2025. (2025)

Zhang, P.; Liu, C.; Liu, C.; Zhaoping, L.: 7T CBV fMRI reveals cortical microcircuits of bottom-up saliency in the human brain. In Journal of Vision, 24 10 Ed., p. 1488. Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2024), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, May 17, 2024 - May 22, 2024. Scholar One, Inc., Charlottesville, VA (2024)

Zhaoping, L.: Looking versus seeing in peripheral vision. In 46th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2024), pp. 220 - 221. 46th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2024) , Aberdeen, UK, August 25, 2024 - August 29, 2024. (2024)

Liu, C.; Liu, C.; Zhaoping, L.; Zhang, P.: 7T CBV fMRI reveals cortical microcircuits of bottom-up saliency in the human brain. In 16th Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society & 2nd CJK International Meeting, P-411. 16th Annual Meeting of Chinese Neuroscience Society & 2nd CJK International Meeting, Zhuhai, China, July 27, 2023 - July 30, 2023. (2023)

Zhaoping, L.: Central-peripheral dichotomy in vision: its motivation and predictions (such as in visual illusions. In CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2023. CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2023, Tübingen, Germany, March 10, 2023 - March 11, 2023. (2023)

Zhaoping, L.: Peripheral vision in the central-peripheral dichotomy. In 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNSS 2022), 3S10m-04, pp. 406 - 407. 45th Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society (JNSS 2022), Okinawa, Japan, June 30, 2022 - July 03, 2022. (2022)

Zhaoping, L.: Efficient coding as the provenance of matched and opposite neuronal feature preferences for multisensory and multi-modal inputs. In 20th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2022), p. 61. 20th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF 2022), Ulm, Germany , July 04, 2022 - July 07, 2022. (2022)

Watamaniuk, S.; Badler, J.; Heinen, S.: A small foveated target is not the optimal fixation stimulus. In Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2022), 7, p. 89. Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS 2022) , St. Pete Beach, FL, USA, May 13, 2022 - May 18, 2022. (2022)

Zhaoping, L.: Central-Peripheral Dichotomy (CPD) in feedforward and feedback processes explored by depth perception in random-dot stereograms (RDSs). In Journal of Vision, 22 (3), p. 28. Optica Fall Vision Meeting 2021, Seattle, WA, USA, September 30, 2021 - October 03, 2021. Scholar One, Inc., Charlottesville, VA (2022)

Bokharaie, V.; Fedorov, L.; Logothetis, N.; Xiao, W.: Topological Analysis of Human Gaze on Natural Image Space. In NeNa Conference 2021: Neurowissenschaftliche Nachwuchskonferenz (Conference of Junior Neuroscientists), T12, p. 13. 22nd Conference of Junior Neuroscientists (NeNa 2021), Tübingen, Germany, October 07, 2021. (2021)

de los Santos Bernal, F.; Scheffer Teixeira, R.; Moscato, L.; van den Munkhof, H.; Choi, H.-N.; Korotkova, T.: Regulation of social behaviors by the lateral septum. In 100th Meeting of the German Physiological Society, Joint Meeting with the Austrian Physiological Society (APS) and Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) Physiology, A 01-03. 100th Meeting of the German Physiological Society, Joint Meeting with the Austrian Physiological Society (APS) and Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) Physiology, Frankfurt a.M., Germany, September 30, 2021 - October 02, 2021. (2021)

Denninger, A.; Bogadhi, A.; Baumann, M.; Hafed, Z.: Sensory tuning in neuronal movement commands. In NeNa Conference 2021: Neurowissenschaftliche Nachwuchskonferenz (Conference of Junior Neuroscientists), T3, p. 4. 22nd Conference of Junior Neuroscientists (NeNa 2021) , Tübingen, Germany, October 07, 2021. (2021)

Qian, C.; Liu, C.; Zou, J.; He, S.; Zhang, P.: Layer- and column-resolved 7T fMRI reveals neural correlates of consciousness in human visual cortex and thalamus. In 2021 ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM 2021), 0636. 2021 ISMRM & SMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM 2021), May 15, 2021 - May 20, 2021. (2021)

Zhaoping, L.: Parallel popout: further confirmation of the V1 Saliency Hypothesis (V1SH). In AVA Virtual Spring Meeting 2021, p. 3. AVA Virtual Spring Meeting 2021, March 29, 2021. (2021)

Zhaoping, L.: The central-peripheral dichotomy in the top-down Feedback in visual recognition. In 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2019), 347.03. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2019) , Chicago, IL, USA, October 19, 2019 - October 23, 2019. (2019)

Zhaoping, L.; Grassi, P.; Erb, M.; Scheffler, K.; Bartels, A.: fMRI investigation of the central-peripheral difference along the human cortical visual pathway for depth perception of correlated and anti-correlated random-dot stereograms. In Perception, 48 (Supplement 2), p. 83. 42nd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2019) , Leuven, Belgium, August 25, 2019 - August 29, 2019. Pion Ltd., London (2019)

Zhaoping, L.: Visual selection. In Neuroforum, 25 (Supplement 1), S23-4, p. 178. 13th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 37th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, March 20, 2019 - March 23, 2019. (2019)

Zhaoping, L.: The central-peripheral dichotomy theory and the reversed depth illusion. Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium 2025, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: The peripheral versus central field for looking versus seeing. The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: The central-peripheral dichotomy theory and the reversed depth illusion. The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: Central-peripheral dichotomy in visual coding. The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: Exercise/programming: decoding color from cone responses. The Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium, Tübingen, Germany (2025)

Zhaoping, L.: The VBC framework for how vision works in primate brain. Systems Neuroscience Symposium (SNS 2024), Tübingen, Germany (2024)

Zhaoping, L.: "Looking and Seeing" vs "modal and amodal". Eberhard-Karls-Universität: Department of Psychology, Tübingen, Germany (2023)

Zhaoping, L.: Investigating feedforward and feedback processes along the visual pathway using random-dot stereograms. Systems Vision Science: Summer School & Symposium, Tübingen, Germany (2023)

Zhaoping, L.: Central-peripheral dichotomy in vision: its motivation and predictions (such as in visual illusions). 11th CIN-NIPS-Asia Pacific Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2023, Tübingen, Germany (2023)

Zhaoping, L.: New ideas and directions by Zhaoping Lab. TNC Elevator Pitches, Tübingen, Germany (2022)

Zhaoping, L.: Re-vision: inspirations from the early attentional selection by the primary visual cortex. TNC Neurocolloquium & The Brain Prize Webinar Series 2022/23: Circuits of Movement (2022)

Zhaoping, L.: Seeing reversed depth in contrast-reversed random-dot stereograms in central vision. 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2021) (2021)

Zhaoping, L.: Understanding early visual receptive fields from efficient coding principles. 30th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2021) Tutorial (2021)