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* Nov. 2 - The problem of vision; comparative vision; rods and cones. | * 'Nov. 2 - The problem of vision; comparative vision; rods and cones.' | ||
** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/VS212B/olshausen-lecture1.pdf Lecture slides] | ** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/VS212B/olshausen-lecture1.pdf Lecture slides] | ||
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Revision as of 20:05, 26 January 2010
Reading and other resources
- Rodieck, "First steps in seeing"
- Wandell, "Foundations of Vision"
- WEBVISION (online resource)
- Books on reserve in Optometry library:
- Leo Chalupa and John Werner (2004) The Visual Neurosciences (two volumes)
- Manfred Fahle and Mark Greenlee (2003) The Neuropsychology of Vision
- Manfred Fahle and Tomaso Poggio (2002) Perceptual Learning
- Michael Gazzaniga (2004, 3rd edition) The Cognitive Neurosciences
- Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, and Tom Jessell (2000, 4th edition) Principles of Neural Science
- Jeremy Wolfe, et al. (2009, 2nd edition) Sensation and Perception
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
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:
- Lab 2 - natural image statistics and efficient coding
Week 4 (Silver)
- Nov. 23 - Extrastriate cortex: physiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology
- Lecture slides
- Supplemental readings (optional):
- Chalupa and Werner, Volume 1, Chapter 34, pp. 541-562
- Fahle and Greenlee, Chapter 7, pp. 210-218
- Wolfe et al., Chapter 4, pp. 96-101; Chapter 7, pp. 186-187
- 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:
Week 5 (Silver)
- Nov. 30 - Visual attention
- Lecture slides
- Supplemental readings (optional):
- Fahle and Greenlee, Chapter 7, pp. 218-236
- Gazzaniga, Chapter 43, pp. 589-606
- Wolfe et al., Chapter 8, pp. 189-209
- Pessoa, Kastner, and Ungerleider (2003) "Neuroimaging studies of attention: From modulation of sensory processing to top-down control" Journal of Neuroscience 23:3990-3998
- Reynolds and Chelazzi (2004) "Attentional modulation of visual processing" Annual Review of Neuroscience 27:611-647
- Videos from lecture:
- Dec. 2 - Experimental methods in visual neuroscience
- Lecture slides
- Supplemental readings (optional):
- Videos from lecture:
- single cell calcium imaging
- evoked versus spontaneous activity with voltage-sensitive dyes
- orientation pinwheels in visual cortex
- gray/white matter segmentation movie
- cortical inflation and flattening movie
- movie of layout of upper right visual field quadrant
- rotating wedge stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
- expanding ring stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
- angle mapping in visual cortex
- eccentricity mapping in visual cortex
- cortical magnification
Week 6 (Silver)
- Dec. 7 - Visual cortical development and plasticity
- Lecture slides
- Supplemental readings (optional):
- Fahle and Poggio, Introduction, pp. ix-xix
- Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell, Chapter 53, pp. 1049-1051; Chapter 54, pp. 1063-1066; Chapter 56, pp. 1115-1127
- 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:
