VS212B

Reading and other resources

• Rodieck, "First steps in seeing"
• Wandell, "Foundations of Vision"
• WEBVISION (online resource)

Syllabus

Week 1 (Olshausen)

• Nov. 2 - The problem of vision; comparative vision; rods and cones.
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Land & Fernald paper on Evolution of Eyes,
    • Rodieck: Chapters 3 & 8, plus "Interlude on plotting light intensity" (pp. 151-154)
• Nov. 4 - Photoreceptors; lateral inhibition
  • Lecture slides

Week 2 (Olshausen)

• Nov. 9 - Retinal information processing; scale-invariant sampling lattice
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Van Essen & Anderson article on Information Processing Strategies and Pathways in the Primate Visual System
    • Handout on Degrees, radians, retinal size and sampling
    • Useful numbers in vision science
• Lab 1 - simulation of retinal sampling lattice

Week 3 (Olshausen)

• Nov. 16 - Sampling; receptive fields; optic nerve
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Rodieck: chapters 12-14
    • Handout on Aliasing
    • Simons et al. paper on induced visual fading
  • Demos:
    • Mach bands
    • Vanishing gray
    • Induced visual fading movie

• Nov. 18 - Redundancy reduction; LGN; visual cortex
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Derrington-Krauskopf-Lennie paper on color-opponency in LGN
    • Ruderman et al paper on principal components of color in natural images
    • Olshausen & Field paper on sparse coding of natural images
  • Demos:
    • Spanish castle color after-effect

• Lab 2 - natural image statistics and efficient coding

Week 4 (Silver)

• Nov. 23 - Extrastriate cortex: physiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology
  • Lecture slides
  • Supplementary readings (optional):
    • Livingstone and Hubel 1988
  • Videos from lecture:
    • Luminance illusion
    • Waterfall motion illusion
    • Single unit recording in area MT
    • Locating area MT with fMRI
    • Prosopagnosia
    • Misbinding of color and motion

Week 5 (Silver)

• Nov. 30 - Visual attention
• Dec. 2 - Imaging methods in visual neuroscience

Week 6 (Silver)

• Dec. 7 - Visual cortical development and plasticity