Even when the primary visual cortical area is absent bilaterally from early life, the rest of a primate visual brain can develop and function normally to support day-to-day visual behaviour.

The subcortical visual pathway through the midbrain superior colliculus is responsible for visually evoked Pavlovian conditioning and dopamine neuron responses with predicted value in monkeys, which remained after lesioning V1.

The three main types of inhibitory neurons in mouse primary visual cortex respond differently to locomotion in darkness and during visual stimulation, revealing context-dependent responses to changes in behavioral state.

MRI methods are promising techniques for investigating the human subcortical auditory system, and these publicly available data, atlases, and tools make researching human audition simpler and more reliable.

Neural pathways from mammalian visual cortex to ancestral brain structures control learning speed and performance of a simple detection task.

Short-term monocular deprivation effects are widespread in the visual cortex and extend subcortically to the ventral pulvinar, while sparing the dorsal pulvinar and the lateral geniculate nucleus.

Low-profile tetrodes that are compatible with wide-field imaging provide the opportunity to evaluate the relationship between spiking neurons and broad networks.

Representations in the subcortical sensory pathway do not only adapt to stimulus properties but also rely on the observer’s subjective model of the world.

Binocular combination of luminance signals exhibits strong interocular suppression in pathways governing the pupil response, and weak interocular suppression in cortical pathways subserving perception.

Innovative MRI mapping of the auditory pathway reveals that peripheral auditory structure significantly impacts the development of the central auditory-language network in children with profound sensorineural hearing loss, emphasizing the need for early speech input and tailored interventions.