VS212B

Week 1

• Nov. 7
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Land & Fernald paper on Evolution of Eyes,
    • Rodieck: Chapters 3 & 8 (pp. 177-186), plus "Interlude on plotting light intensity" (pp. 151-154)

Week 2

• Nov. 14
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Van Essen & Anderson article on Information Processing Strategies and Pathways in the Primate Visual System
    • Handout on Aliasing
    • Handout on Degrees, radians, retinal size and sampling
    • Useful numbers in vision science
  • Demos:
    • Mach bands
    • Vanishing gray
• Lab 1 - simulation of retinal sampling lattice

Week 3

• Nov. 19
  • 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:
    • Spanish castle color after-effect
• Lab 2 - natural image statistics and efficient coding

Week 4

• Nov. 26
  • Lecture slides
  • required reading for Nov. 26 lecture Livingstone and Hubel 1988
  • waterfall motion aftereffect
  • spiral motion aftereffect
  • MT direction selectivity movie
  • localizing V1 and MT with fMRI
  • biological motion - point light walkers
  • interactive biological motion adaptation website
  • optic ataxia video
  • misbinding of color and motion
  • pink dots illusion
• Nov. 28
  • Lecture slides
  • required reading for Lecture 7 Reynolds and Chelazzi 2004
  • gorilla change blindness demo
  • The Colour Changing Card Trick
  • airplane change blindness demo
  • sphinx change blindness demo
  • Grenoble street scene (you may have trouble viewing this on a Mac)
  • personal identity change blindness demo

Week 5

• December 3
  • Lecture slides
  • required reading for Lecture 8 Logothetis and Wandell 2004
  • calcium imaging of hippocampal neurons
  • voltage-sensitive dyes - evoked versus spontaneous spike-triggered activity
  • orientation pinwheels demo
  • gray/white matter segmentation movie
  • cortical inflation and flattening movie
  • inflation of cortical surface to establish standardized coordinate frame
  • rotating wedge stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
  • expanding ring stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
  • movie of layout of upper right visual field quadrant
• December 5
  • Lecture slides
  • required reading for Lecture 9 Hooks and Chen 2007
  • retinal waves movie