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* [http://www.amazon.com/First-Steps-Seeing-Robert-Rodieck/dp/0878937579 Rodieck, "First steps in seeing"] | * [http://www.amazon.com/First-Steps-Seeing-Robert-Rodieck/dp/0878937579 Rodieck, "First steps in seeing"] | ||
* [http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Vision-Brian-Wandell/dp/0878938532/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258702769&sr=8-1 Wandell, "Foundations of Vision"] | * [http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Vision-Brian-Wandell/dp/0878938532/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258702769&sr=8-1 Wandell, "Foundations of Vision"] | ||
* [http://webvision.med.utah.edu/ | * [http://webvision.med.utah.edu/ book] (online resource) | ||
* Books on reserve in Optometry library: | * Books on reserve in Optometry library: | ||
** Leo Chalupa and John Werner (2004) The Visual Neurosciences (two volumes) | ** Leo Chalupa and John Werner (2004) The Visual Neurosciences (two volumes) | ||
Revision as of 23:43, 5 November 2012
Reading and other resources
- Rodieck, "First steps in seeing"
- Wandell, "Foundations of Vision"
- book (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 (2009, 4th 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. 5 - 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. 7 - Phototransduction; photoreceptor renewal; dynamic range
- Lecture slides
- Reading:
- Rodieck: Chapter 8, plus "Interlude on plotting light intensity" (pp. 151-154)
Week 2 (Olshausen)
- Nov. 14 - Retinal information processing; scale-invariant sampling lattice
Week 3 (Olshausen)
- Nov. 19 - Sampling; receptive fields; optic nerve
- Nov. 21 - Redundancy reduction; LGN; visual cortex
Week 4 (Silver)
- Nov. 26 (4-6PM) - Extrastriate cortex: physiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology
- Nov. 28 (4-6PM) - Visual attention
Week 5 (Silver)
- Dec. 3 (4-6PM) - Experimental methods in visual neuroscience
- Dec. 5 (4-6PM) - Visual cortical development and plasticity
