Publications

Journal Papers

2006

Bethge M (2006) Factorial coding of natural images: how effective are linear models in removing higher-order dependencies? J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 23(6): 1253-1268.

Rehn M, Sommer FT (2006) A network that uses few active neurones to code visual input predicts the diverse shapes of cortical receptive fields. J. Comp. Neurosci. SpringerLink DOI 10.1007/s10827-006-003-9 pdf

Rehn M, Sommer FT (2006) Storing and restoring visual input with collaborative rank coding and associative memory. Neurocomputing 69 (10-12) 1219-1223 pdf

Sommer FT, Kanerva P (2006) Can neural models of cognition benefit from the advantages of connectionism? Behavoral and Brain Sciences 29 (1) 86-87 pdf

2005

George D, Sommer FT (2005) Computing with inter-spike inverval codes in networks of integrate and fire neurons. Neurocomputing 65-66, 414 - 420. pdf

Johnson JS, Olshausen BA (2005) The recognition of partially visible natural objects in the presence and absence of their occluders. Vision Research, 45, 3262-3276. pdf

Johnson JS, Olshausen BA (2005) The earliest EEG signatures of object recognition in a cued-target task are postsensory. Journal of Vision, 5, 299-312. link

Martinez LM, Wang Q, Reid RC, Pillai C, Alonso J-M, Sommer FT, Hirsch JA (2005) Receptive field structure varies with layer in the primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 8 , 372 - 379 pdf

Olshausen BA, Field DJ (2005) How close are we to understanding V1? Neural Computation, 17, 1665-1699. pdf

Sommer FT, Wennekers T (2005) Synfire chains with conductance-based neurons: internal timing and coordination with timed input. Neurocomputing 65-66, 449 - 454. pdf

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Bell A.J., Parra L.C. (2005) Maximising Sensitivity in a Spiking Network, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, Saul L.K. and Weiss Y. and Bottou L., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA pdf

Talks and Posters

Blanche TJ (2007) The influence of cortical dynamics on spike timing precision in cat V1. Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, California.

Koepsell K (2007) The hidden clock in LGN -- is phase coding employed in early vision?. Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany

Garrigues PJ, Olshausen BA (2007) Learning Horizontal Connections from the Statistics of Natural Images. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Koepsell K, Wang X, Wei Y, Wang Q, Vaingankar V, Hirsch JA, Sommer FT (2006) Retinal oscillations carry visual information to cortex. Computational and Systems Neuroscience, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Blanche TJ (2007) How active is the cortex? COSYNE workshop, The Canyons, Utah.

Blanche TJ, Koepsell K (2007) Spike timing precision and the influence of cortical dynamics. Grand Challenges in Neuroscience, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Blanche TJ, Freiwald WA, Swindale NV (2006) Neural sparseness in cat and monkey visual cortex studied with silicon polytrode arrays. Society for Neuroscience.

Koepsell K, Wang X, Wei Y, Wang Q, Vaingankar V, Hirsch JA, Sommer FT (2006) Two channels for visual information to travel from thalamus to cortex. Society for Neuroscience.

Koepsell K, Wang X, Wei Y, Wang Q, Vaingankar V, Hirsch JA, Sommer FT (2005) Ongoing retinal activity explains variability of thalamic responses. Society for Neuroscience.

Redwood Neuroscience Institute

An incomplete list of publications from the Redwood Neuroscience Institute (2002-2005) is available here (will be updated soon).