Psychophysical measurement and computational modeling show that sensory information cannot contribute directly to a cognitive judgment, but must first be integrated into resource-limited working memory.

A series of experiments suggest that the fronto-parietal attentional network is involved in controlling eye-based attention, and FEF plays a crucial causal role in generating the attention-induced ocular dominance shift.

A critical re-evaluation of some of the quintessential examples given as evidence for cortical reorganisation argues that, contrary to the prevalent view, any opportunities for functional change in cortical organisation are incremental and constrained by the underlying structural ‘blueprint'.

Single-unit recordings from cortical neurons in behaving macaque monkeys expose differential aspects of multisensory plasticity across different multisensory areas during visual–vestibular recalibration.

Stimulus representation in primary visual cortex rebounds to its original state following therapeutic sensory deprivation in adults.

The study of sleep following monocular deprivation has shown that sleep slow oscillations and spindles occurring during non-REM sleep have a role in homeostatic ocular dominance plasticity even in the adulthood, beyond synaptic homeostatic hypothesis that applies to Hebbian phenomena.

V1 damage impairs unconscious following movements of stimulus motion, even after conscious perception has been restored through psychophysical training, thus demonstrating distinct neural pathways for perception and action.

Archived histological material from tracing studies, immunohistochemistry, and Golgi impregnations allowed to discover a so far unrecognized structural difference, potentially of functional importance, between neocortical pyramidal neurons of rodent, carnivore, and ungulate as compared to monkey and man.

A cross-cultural study of reading acquisition and reading irmpairment reveals the invariance of the neural correlates of reading across cultures.