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Nov. 4 - The problem of vision; comparative vision; rods and cones.
- Lecture slides
- Reading:
  - Olshausen, 20 years of learning about vision: Questions answered, questions unanswered, and questions not yet asked.
  - Land & Fernald paper on Evolution of Eyes,
  - Rodieck: Chapter 3

Nov. 6 - Phototransduction; photoreceptor renewal; dynamic range
- Lecture slides
- Reading:
  - Rodieck: Chapter 8, plus "Interlude on plotting light intensity" (pp. 151-154)

Nov. 18 - 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. 20 - 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

Nov. 25 (4 - 6PM) - Extrastriate cortex
- Extrastriate cortex
  - Lecture slides
  - Supplemental readings (optional):
    - Chalupa and Werner, Volume 1, Chapter 34, pp. 541-562
    - Fahle and Greenlee, Chapter 7, pp. 210-218
    - Kandel et al., Chapter 28, pp. 621-628
    - Wolfe et al., Chapter 4, pp. 85-91; Chapter 8, p. 240
    - Livingstone and Hubel (1988) "Segregation of form, color, movement, and depth: Anatomy, physiology, and perception" Science 240:740-749
    - Merigan and Maunsell (1993) "How parallel are the primate visual pathways?" Annual Review of Neuroscience 16:369-402
  - Videos from lecture:

Dec. 2 (4 - 6PM) - Visual attention
- Visual attention
  - Lecture slides
  - Supplemental readings (optional):
    - Fahle and Greenlee, Chapter 7, pp. 218-236
    - Gazzaniga, Chapter 13, pp. 205-217; Chapter 14, pp. 219-234; Chapter 19, pp. 281-288
    - Wolfe et al., Chapter 7, pp. 187-218
  - Videos from lecture:
Dec. 4 (4 - 6PM) - Experimental methods in visual neuroscience
- Experimental methods in visual neuroscience

Dec. 11 (4 - 6PM) - Visual cortical development and plasticity
- Lecture slides
- Visual cortical development and plasticity
  - Supplemental readings (optional):
    - Fahle and Poggio, Introduction, pp. ix-xix
    - Gazzaniga, Chapter 1, pp. 7-28; Chapter 4, pp. 67-72; Chapter 8, pp. 129-140
    - Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell, Chapter 54, pp. 1218-1221; Chapter 56, pp. 1259-1274
    - Huberman, Feller, and Chapman (2008) "Mechanisms underlying development of visual maps and receptive fields" Annual Review of Neuroscience 31:479-509
    - Wandell and Smirnakis (2009) "Plasticity and stability of visual field maps in adult primary visual cortex" Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10:873-884
  - Video from lecture:
    - Retinal waves

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 **** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/VS212B/spinning_pinwheels.gif orientation pinwheels in visual cortex]
 **** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/VS212B/van_essen_struct_segmented.mpg gray/white matter segmentation movie]
-**** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/VS212B/van_essen_spin.mpg cortical inflation and flattening movie]
+**** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/VS212B/SubML_BrainInflation.mp4 cortical inflation and flattening movie]
 **** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/VS212B/V1_upper_right_far_peripheral.avi movie of layout of upper right visual field quadrant]
 **** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/VS212B/wedge.mov rotating wedge stimulus used for retinotopic mapping]