J. Anthony Movshon
Vision and visual development
 I am interested in the
way the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the
mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior.
My research concerns the function and development of the primate visual
system,
especially the visual areas of the cerebral cortex. My laboratory
supports
work on neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and psychophysics; the main
experimental
tool is electrophysiological recording from single neurons in
anesthetized
and alert monkeys. We stress analytical and quantitative approaches to
the
study of visual receptive fields. Conceptually, much of this research
draws
on related work in visual psychophysics, and on computational
approaches
to understanding brain organization and visual processing.
I received my doctorate from Cambridge University in 1975, where I
studied visual neurophysiology and psychophysics. I joined the faculty
at New York University that same year, and here I have remained, apart
from a sabbatical year spent at Oxford University.
Presently, my laboratory's efforts are concentrated on two broad
groups
of studies. The first set is concerned with analysis of the functional
properties
of neurons in the extrastriate visual areas of the macaque monkey's
cerebral cortex, with special emphasis on the roles of those areas in
processing information
about visual motion, form, and color. I am particularly interested in
the
relationships between visual signals in these areas, and the perceptual
decisions
and motor activity they support. The second set of projects focuses on
analysis
of the functional development of the cortical visual system in monkeys,
and
the way that development is affected by forms of abnormal early visual
experience
that produce a visual system disorder known as amblyopia.
Much of my work seeks to uncover the links between brain and
behavior by
studying the relationship between neuronal activity in the visual
system and
its perceptual and motor consequences.
You can get my full cv here.
You may also want to visit the Visual Neuroscience
Laboratory web page.
E-mail: movshon@nyu.edu
Representative Publications
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J.
A. Movshon and W. T. Newsome (1996). Visual response properties of
striate cortical neurons projecting to area MT in macaque monkeys. Journal
of Neuroscience
16: 7733-7741
M.
N. Shadlen, K. H. Britten, W. T. Newsome and J. A. Movshon (1996). A
computational analysis of the relationship between neuronal and
behavioral responses to
visual motion. Journal of Neuroscience 16: 1486-1510.
M.
Carandini, D. J. Heeger and J. A. Movshon (1997). Linearity and
normalization in simple cells of the macaque primary visual cortex. Journal
of Neuroscience 17: 8621-8644.
S.
G. Lisberger and J. A. Movshon (1999). Visual motion analysis for
pursuit eye movements in area MT of macaque monkeys. Journal of
Neuroscience 19: 2224-2246.
M.
N. Shadlen and J. A. Movshon (1999). Synchrony unbound: a critical
evaluation of the temporal binding hypothesis. Neuron 24:
67-77.
J.
B. Levitt, R. A. Schumer, P. D. Spear, S. M. Sherman and J. A. Movshon
(2001).
Visual response properties of neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus
of
normally-reared and visually-deprived monkeys. Journal of
Neurophysiology
85: 2111-2129.
J.
R. Cavanaugh, W. Bair and J. A. Movshon (2002). Nature and interaction
of signals from the receptive field center and surround in macaque V1
neurons.
Journal of Neurophysiology 88: 2530-2546.
S.
P. McKee, D. M. Levi and J. A. Movshon (2003). The pattern of visual
deficits in amblyopia.
Journal of Vision 3: 380-405.
A.
Kohn and J. A. Movshon (2004). Adaptation changes the direction tuning
of macaque MT neurons.
Nature Neuroscience 7: 764-772.
M.
A. Smith, N. J. Majaj and J. A. Movshon (2005). Dynamics of motion
signaling by neurons in macaque area MT.
Nature Neuroscience 8: 220-228.
N. C. Rust,
O. Schwartz, E. P. Simoncelli and J. A. Movshon (2005). Spatiotemporal elements of macaque V1 receptive fields.
Neuron 46: 945-956.
M.A. Smith, W. Bair and J.A. Movshon (2006). Dynamics of suppression in macaque V1.
Journal of Neuroscience 26: 4826-4834.
M. Jazayeri
and J. A. Movshon (2006). Optimal representation of sensory information by neural populations. Nature Neuroscience
9: 690-696.
N.C. Rust,
V. Mante, E.P. Simoncelli and J.A. Movshon (2006). How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns.
Nature Neuroscience 9: 1421-1431.
M. Jazayeri
and J. A. Movshon (2007). A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding. Nature
446: 912-915.
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