VS212B

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 (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