VS212B
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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
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
- Supplementary readings (optional):
- 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
