Vision Journal Club Archive

Sept 11

David Burr

cancelled

Sept 14

Hany Farid

cancelled

Sept 21
12-1:30pm

Concetta Morrone
& David Burr

The effects of attention on contrast increment thresholds: evidence for modality specificity and object orientation
Furher details here

Sept 28

Jon Peirce

Texture contrast aftereffects are monocular; texture density aftereffects are binocular
FH Durgin (2001) Vision Research, 41:2619-2630

Oct 5

Hany Farid

Grouping by Temporal Synchrony
Abstract here

Oct 12

Mike Hawken

cancelled

Oct 19 12:30-1:30

Simon Schultz

Effect of attentive fixation in macaque thalamus and cortex
D. B. Bender and M. Youakim (2001) J Neurophysiol, 85: 219-234

Oct 24

Tony Movshon

Neurophysiological investigation of the basis of the fMRI signal.
Logothetis NK, Pauls J, Augath M, Trinath T, Oeltermann A. (2001) Nature, 412:128-30
also see "News and views" coverage

Oct 31

Cancelled

(room not available)

Nov 7

Jonathan Pillow

Motion Processing in the Macaque: Revisted with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Tolias et al. (2001) J Neurosci. 21: 8594-8601.

Nov 14

n/a

Society for Neuroscience 2001 (San Diego)

Nov 21

??

TBA

Nov 28

Jon Peirce

Interocular rivalry revealed in the human cortical blind-spot representation
Tong & Engel (2001) Nature 411, 195 - 199

also see brief review in TICS here

Dec 5

Laurence Maloney

Lightness constancy: a direct test of the illumination estimation hypothesis.
Rutherford, M. D. and Brainard, D. H. (in press). Psychological Science.

Surface-illuminant ambiguity and color constancy: effects of scene complexity and depth cues.
Kraft, J. M., Maloney, S. I., and Brainard, D. H. (in press). Perception.

Dec 12

n/a

CNS Party

Jan 17

Jon Peirce

From eye movements to actions: how batsmen hit the ball
M.F.Land & P.Mcleod (2000) Nature Neuroscience 3(12):1340-1346

Jan 24

Elizabeth Johnson

Adaptation-induced plasticity of orientation tuning in adult visual cortex
V. Dragoi, J. Sharma & M. Sur (2000). Neuron, 28:287-298

Jan 31

Lynne Kiorpes

Early development of ocular dominance columns
Crowley and Katz, (2000). Science, 290:1321-1324

Feb 7

Laurence Maloney

The task-dependent use of binocular disparity and motion parallax information. Bradshaw, M. F., Parton, A. D., & Glennerster, A. (2000). Vision Research, 40, 3725-3734.

Feb 14

Denis Pelli

Unconscious perception: attention, awareness, and control.
Debner, J. A. and Jacoby, L. L. (1994) J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 20 (2), 304-17.

Feb 21

Nava Rubin

Visual responses in monkey areas V1 and V2 to three-dimensional surface configurations
Bakin, Nakayama and Gilbert (2000) Journal of Neuroscience vol 20, 8188-98

Feb 28

Leanne Chukoskie

Temporal dynamics of motion integration for the initiation of tracking eye movements at ultra-short latencies.
Masson GS, Rybarczyk Y, Castet E, and Mestre DR (2000) Visual Neuroscience, 17:753-767.

Mar 7

??

cancelled

Mar 14

n/a

Spring Recess

Mar 21

Isabelle Mareschal

Spatial Distribution of Contextual Interactions in Primary Visual Cortex and in Visual Perception
MK Kapadia, G Westheimer, and CD Gilbert (2000) J Neurophysiol 84 2048-2062.

Mar 28

Paul Warren

Evidence for curvilinear interpolation from dot alignment judgements.
Van Assen, M. A. & Vos, P.G. (1999) Vision Research 39, 4378-4392

Apr 4

Leslie Cameron

Selective visual attention modulates the direct tilt aftereffect.
Spivey MJ, Spirn MJ. (2000) Percept Psychophys. 62(8)1525-33.

Apr 11

Bob Shapley

Orientation tuning of input conductance, excitation, and inhibition in cat primary visual cortex.
Anderson JS, Carandini M, Ferster D (2000) J Neurophysiol 84(2):909-26

Apr 18

Tony Movshon

cancelled

Apr 25

n/a

ARVO practice talks

May 2

n/a

ARVO

May 9

n/a

VSS

Sept 13

Jamie Kraft

Variations in normal color vision. II. Unique hues
Michael A. Webster, Eriko Miyahara, Gokhan Malkoc, and Vincent E. Raker (2000) J. Optical Society of America: A 17(9): 1545-1555

Sept 20

Mike Landy

The viewpoint-dependency of veridicality:psychophysics and modelling.
Willems, B. & Wagemans, J. (2000). Vision Research, 40(21): 3017-3027

Sept 27

Jean-Michel Hupe

Coding of border ownership in monkey visual cortex.
Zhou H, Friedman HS, von Der Heydt R. (2000) Journal of Neuroscience Sep 1;20(17):6594-611.

Oct 4

Sue Fenstemaker

A comparison of visual and auditory motion processing in human cerebral cortex.
Lewis, Beauchamp & DeYoe (2000) Cerebral Cortex 10: 873-888

Oct 11

Visiting speaker
Valerio Mante

Testing models of cortical area MT
View abstract

Oct 18

Jon Peirce

Activity in primary visual cortex predicts performance in a visual detection task
Ress, Backus & Heeger (2000) Nature Neuroscience, 3(9):940-945
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Effects of attention on orientation-tuning functions of single neurons in macaque cortical area V4
McAdams & Maunsell (1999) J Neuroscience, 19(1):431-441

Oct 25

Erica Alliston

An information limit on the spatial integration of local orientation signals.
Steven Dakin (in submission)

Nov 1

Eero Simoncelli

Adaptive Rescaling Maximizes Information Transmission
N Brenner, W Bialek and R de Ruyter van Steveninck (2000) Neuron, 26:695-702

Nov 8

N/A

Society for Neuroscience 2000

Nov 15

??

SFN review

Nov 22

N/A

It's Thanksgiving tomorrow but if you really want....

Nov 29

Jason Forte

Contrast gain control in the visual cortex: monocular versus binocular mechanisms.
Truchard AM, Ohzawa I, Freeman RD.
J Neurosci. 2000 Apr 15;20(8):3017-32.

Dec 6

Nicole Rust

Neuronal mechanisms of selectivity for object features revealed by blocking inhibition in inferotemporal cortex.
Yi Wang, Ichiro Fujita, and Yusuke Murayama (2000). Nature Neuroscience 3(8) 807 - 813.

There is also a commentary on the paper

Dec 13

CRS ltd.

Demo of fMRI eye tracking (and VSG2/5?)

Jan 19

Denis Pelli

Verghese P, Watamaniuk SNJ, McKee, SP, Grzywacz, NM (1999) "Local motion detectors cannot account for the detectability of an extended trajectory in noise." Vision Research . 39(1):19-30. Pdf .

Jan 26

Jamie Kraft

Bloj MG, Kersten D, Hurlbert AC (1999) "Perception of three dimensional shape influences colour perception through mutual illumination." Nature . 402:877-879. Pdf

Gegenfurtner KR (1999) "Reflections on colour constancy." Nature . 402:855-856. Pdf

Feb 2

Visiting Speaker

Bruce Henning (Oxford University) "Variations on a Theme of Mach"

Feb 9

Jonathan Pillow

Murphy PC, Duckett SG, Sillito AM (1999) "Feedback connections to the lateral geniculate nucleus and cortical response properties". Science . 286:1552-1554. Pdf

Murphy PC, Duckett SG, Sillito AM (2000) "Comparison of the laminar distribution of input from areas 17 and 18 of the visual cortex to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the cat". J. Neurosci. 20(2):845-853. Pdf

Feb 16

Leanne Chukoskie

Castet E, Masson GS (2000) "Motion perception during saccadic eye movements". Nature Neuroscience. 3(2)177:183. Pdf

Feb 23

Melanie Palomares

Dakin SC, Hess RF (1999) "Contour integration and scale combination processes in visual edge detection". Spatial Vision 12(3)309:327.

Mar 1

Jean-Michel Hupé

Treue S, Hol K, Rauber H-J (2000) "Seeing multiple directions of motion-- physiology and psychophysics". Nature Neuroscience 3(3):270-276. Pdf

Groh, J (2000) "Predicting perception from population codes". Nature Neuroscience 3(3):201-202. Pdf

Mar 8

Cancelled

Mar 15

Spring Break!

Mar 22

Simon Schultz

Deneve S, Latham PE, Pouget A (1999) "Reading population codes: a neural implementation of ideal observers". Nature Neuroscience 2(8):740-745. Pdf

Additional information on methods ['Optimal decoding of noisy neuronal populations using recurrent networks'] PostScript

Mar 29

Erica Alliston

Hess RF, Wang YZ, Dakin SC (1999) "Are judgements of circularity local or global?". Vision Research 39: 4354-4360. Pdf

Apr 5

Jason Forte

Lee SH, Blake R (1999) "Visual form created solely from temporal structure". Science 284:1165-1168. Pdf

Adelson EH, Farid H (1999) "Filtering reveals form in temporally structured displays". Science 286:2231a. Pdf

Apr 12

Isabelle Mareschal

Lee TS, Mumford D, Romero R, Lamme VAF (1998) "The role of the primary visual cortex in higher level vision". Vision Research 38:2429:2454. Pdf

Apr 19

Visiting Speaker

Josh Trachtenberg (Keck Center, UCSF) "Rapid extragranular plasticity in the absence of thalamocortical plasticity in the developing primary visual cortex."

Note: We will be meeting in room 551!

Apr 26

12 pm

ARVO practice

Cancelled!

May 3

ARVO

May 10

ARVO wrap-up

Sep 15

Larry Maloney

Jacobs, RA (1999)." Optimal integration of texture and motion cues to depth ". Vision Research . 39:3621-3629.

Sep 22

Leanne Chukoskie

Stanley GB, Li FF, and Dan Y (1999). " Reconstruction of natural scenes from ensemble responses in the lateral geniculate nucleus ". J. Neurosci. 19(18):8036-8042. Pdf .

Sep 29

Bob Shapley

Anderson JC, Binzegger T, Kahana O, Martin KAC, and Segev I (1999). " Dendritic asymmetry cannot account for directional responses of neurons in visual cortex ". Nature Neuroscience 2:820-824. Pdf .

Livingstone MS (1998). " Mechanisms of direction selectivity in macaque V1 ". Neuron 20:509-526. Pdf .

Oct 6

Nava Rubin

Sugita Y (1999). " Grouping of image fragments in primary visual cortex ". Nature 401:269-272. Pdf .

Oct 13

Lynne Kiorpes

Dobkins KR, Anderson CM, and Lia B. (1999). " Infant temporal contrast sensitivity functions (tCSFs) mature earlier for luminance than for chromatic stimuli: evidence for precocious magnocellular development? ". Vis. Res. 39(19):3223-3239.

Oct 20

Pete Lennie

Farell B (1998). " Two-dimensional matches from one-dimensional stimulus components in human stereopsis. ". Nature 395:689-693. Pdf .

Nov 3

Tony Movshon

Kapadia MK, Westheimer G, Gilbert CD (1999). " Dynanmics of spatial summation in primary visual cortex of alert monkeys. " PNAS 96:12073-78. Pdf .

Sceniak MP, Ringach DL, Hawken MJ, Shapley RM (1999). " Contrast's effect on spatial summation by macaque V1 neurons. " Nature Neurosci. 2:733-739. Pdf .

Nov 10

Najib Majaj

Heeger DJ, Boynton GM, Demb JB, Seidemann E, Newsome WT (1999). " Motion opponency in visual cortex. " J. Neurosci. 19(16):7162-74. Pdf .

Nov 17

Mike Hawken

Beutter BR, Stone LS (1998) " Human motion perception and smooth eye movements show similar directional biases for elongated apertures. " Vis. Res. 38:1273-1286. Pdf .

Krauzlis RJ, Stone LS (1999) " Tracking with the mind's eye. " TINS 22(12):544-550. Pdf .

Dec 1

Elizabeth Johnson

Stromeyer III CF, Thabet R, Chaparro A, Kronauer RE (1999)." Spatial masking does not reveal mechanisms selective to combined luminance and red-green color. " Vis. Res. 39(12):2099-2112. Pdf .

Dec 8

Visiting speaker

Josh McDermott (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London ) " Mid-level Visual Constraints on Motion. "

Jan 20

 Leanne Chukoskie

Rao, RPN and Ballard, DH (1999)." Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects ". Nature Neuroscience . V 2(1) 79-87.

Jan 27

  Cancelled

Feb 3

Visiting speaker

  Richard Marrocco (University of Oregon ) " Local and global modulation of the covert orienting of attention in primates "

Feb 10

Visiting speaker

Stephane Mallat ( Courant Institute of Mathematical Science ) " Image representations through deformations "

Feb 17

Larry O'Keefe

 DeAngelis, GC and Newsome, WT (1999 ) "Organization of disparity-selective neurons in macaque area MT ". Journal of Neuroscience . 19(4):1398-1415.

Feb 24

Cancelled

Mar 3

 John Krauskopf

Jacobs, GH and Deegan, JF (1997) " Spectral sensitivity of macaque monkeys measured with ERG flicker photometery ". Visual Neuroscience . 14(5):921-928.

Jacobs, GH, Neitz, J and Krogh, K (1996) " Electroretinogram flicker photometry and its applications ". JOSA . 13(3):641-648.

Mar 10

Bob Shapley

 Kleinschmidt, A, Buchel, C, Zeki, S and Frackowiak, RSJ (1998) " Human brain activity during spontaneously reversing perception of ambiguous figures ." Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. . 265:2427-2433.

Lumer, ED, Friston, KJ and Rees, G. (1998) "Neural correlates of perceptual rivalry in the human brain ." Science . 280:1930-1934.

Mar 17

Spring Break-- no journal club

Mar 24

 Marisa Carrasco

  Cancelled

Mar 31

 Erica Alliston

 Page, WK and Duffy, CJ (1999) " MST neuronal responses to heading direction during pursuit eye movements ". J. Neurophys . 81(2):596-610.

PDF

Apr 7

Visiting speaker

  Peter Foldiak, University of St. Andrews " Multi-tasking in the ventral visual stream ".

Apr 14

Davi Geiger

 Davi presented his own work-in-progress on Stereo Vision.

Apr 21

Matthew Smith

 Lampl, Reichova and Ferster (1999) " Synchronous membrane potential fluctuations in neurons of the cat visual cortex ". Neuron 22: 361-374.

Apr 28

 Sue Fenstemaker

 Yabuta, NH and Callaway, EM (1998) " Cytochrome-oxidase blobs and intrinsic horizontal connections of layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons of primate V1 ". Visual Neuroscience . 15:1007-1027.

May 5

ARVO practice

Sep 9

Matteo Carandini

Weiss Y and Adelson EH (1998), " Slow and smooth: a Bayesian theory for the combination of local motion signals in human vision ", MIT AI Memo 1624 (CBCL Paper 158).

Sep 16

Dario Ringach

Oram MW, Foldiak P, Perrett DI, Sengpiel F(1998) " The 'Ideal Homunculus': decoding neural population signals ", TINS , 21 : 259-265

Abbott, L.F. and Dayan, P. (1998) The Effect of Correlated Variability on the Accuracy of a Population Code . Neural Comp . (in press). Gzip'd ps

Sep 23

Tony Movshon

Laurent G, Gabbiani F (1998) Collision-avoidance: nature's many solutions . Nature Neuroscience 1: 261-263. (News and Views). Pdf .

Sun H, Frost BJ (1998) Computation of different optical variables of looming objects in pigeon nucleus rotundus neurons . Nature Neuroscience 1: 296-303. Pdf .

Hatsopoulos N, Gabbiani F, Laurent G (1995) Elementary computation of object approach by a wide-field visual neuron . Science 270: 1000-1003.

Sep 30

Wyeth Bair

Shadlen, M. N. and Newsome, W. T. (1998). The variable discharge of cortical neurons: implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding . J Neurosci, 18 : 3870-3896. Pdf

Oct 7

Elizabeth Johnson

Cavanagh, P, Henaff, M-A, Michel, F, Landis, T, Troscianko, T, Intriligator, J (1998) Complete sparing of high-contrast color input to motion perception in cortical color blindness . Nature Neuroscience 1 (July): 242-247.

Oct 14

Lynne Kiorpes

S.L. Macknik and M.S. Livingstone, Neuronal correlates of visibility and invisibility in the primate visual system . Nature Neuroscience 1 (2): 144-149, 1998. Pdf

Oct 21

Ivan Lamouret

Dobbins, A. C., Jeo, R. M., Fiser, J. and Allman, J. M. (1998). Distance modulation of neural activity in the visual cortex . Science, 281 : 552-555.

Oct 28

Leanne Chukoskie

Logothetis, N. K., (1998) See and Grasp , Nature , 395: 444-445.

Sereno, A. B., and Maunsell, J. H. R., (1998) Shape selectivity in primate lateral intraperietal cortex , Nature , 395 :500-503.

Snyder, L. H., Grieve, K. L., Brotchie, P., and Andersen, R. A., (1998) Separate body-and world-referenced representations of visual space in parietal cortex . Nature , 394 : 887-891.

NB: These pdfs are available to Nature subscribers only

Nov 4

Eero Simoncelli

Weiss Y. and Adelson E.H. (1996) A unified mixture framework for motion segmentation: incorporating spatial coherence and estimating the number of models. Proceedings of IEEE conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. pp. 321-326.

Nov 11

Society for Neuroscience Meeting - No Jclub

Nov 18

Najib Majaj

Neri, P., Morrone, M. C. and Burr, D. C. (1998). Seeing biological motion . Nature, 395 : 894-896.

Ahlstrom, V., Blake, R. and Ahlstrom, U. (1997). Perception of biological motion . Perception, 26 : 1539-1548.

Nov 25

Odelia Schwartz

Denis Pelli

NIPS poster preview: Modeling surround suppression in V1 neurons with a statistically-derived normalization model .

Thomas, J. P. and Olzak, L. A. (1990). Cue summation in spatial discriminations . Vision Research , 30 (11):1865-1875.

Dec 2

CANCELLED!

Dec 9

Dan Tranchina

Jacobs, A. L., and Werblin, F. S. (1998) Spatiotemporal patterns at the retinal output . Journal of Neurophysiology . 80 (1): 447- 451. Pdf

Dec 16

Mike Landy

Seyama, J. and Sato, T. (1998). Shape from shading: estimation of reflectance map . Vision Research , 38 : 3805-3815.

Jan 28

John Krauskopf

M A Webster, J D Mollon " Adaptation and the color statistics of natural images ". Vision Research 37: 3283-3298 (1997)

Feb 4

Eero Simoncelli

J J Atick, Z Li, A N Redlich. " What Does Post-Adaptation Color Appearance Reveal about Cortical Color Representation? " Vision Research 33: 123-129 (1993).

Feb 11

Dario Ringach

M. F. Land and T. S. Collett, " Chasing Behaviour of Houseflies ", J. Comp. Physiol., 89:331-357, 1974.

Feb 18

Bob Shapley

MB Dalva, M Weliky and LC Katz, " Relationships between local synaptic connections and orientation domains in primary visual cortex ", Neuron, 19: 871-880 (1997). [paper was later retracted]

Feb 25

David Heeger (Stanford University)

Mar 4

Jonn McCollum

J.L. Gallant, C.E. Connor, S. Rakshit, J.W. Lewis, & D.C. Van Essen. " Neural Responses to Polar, Hyperbolic, and Cartesian Gratings in Area V4 of the Macaque Monkey " J Neurophysiol, 76:4 2718-39 (1996).

Mar 11

Mike Hawken

Cumming and Parker (1997) Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without depth perception . Nature 389, 280-83.

Masson et al (1997) Vergence eye movements in response to binocular disparity without depth perception . Nature 389, 283-286.

Mar 25

Chao Tang

HB Barlow and SP Tripathy " Correspondence Noise and Signal Pooling in the Detection of Coherent Visual Motion ". J Neurosci, 17(20):7954-66 (1996).

Apr 1

Corrado Caudek

Hogervorst, Kappers, & Koenderink, " Monocular discrimination of rigidly and nonrigidly moving objects ", Perception and Psychophysics, 1997, 59: 1266-1279

Sparrow & Stine, " The perceived rigidity in rotating eight-vertex geometric forms: Extracting nonrigid structure from rigid motion ", Vision Research, 1998, 38, 541-556.

Apr 8

James Cavanaugh

A Grinvald, EE Lieke, RD Frostig, R Hildesheim " Cortical point-spread function and long-range lateral interactions revealed by real-time optical imaging of macaque monkey primary visual cortex ", J. Neurosci. 14: 2545-2568 (1994).

Apr 15

Alexandre Pouget (Georgetown University)

Apr 22

Denis Pelli

" Visual agnosia in monkey and man " by David N. Levine. No further ref.

Apr 29

Moshe Gur (Harvard University)

May 6

ARVO practice talks

May 20

post-ARVO discussion