VS212B
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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
- Lecture slides
- Reading:
- Rodieck, Chapter3
- 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. 19 - Sampling; receptive fields; optic nerve
- Nov. 21 - Redundancy reduction; LGN; visual cortex
Week 4 (Silver)
- Nov. 26 (4 - 6:30PM) - Extrastriate cortex / Visual attention
- 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:
- Supplemental readings (optional):
- Nov. 28 (4 - 6:30PM) - Visual attention / Experimental methods in visual neuroscience
Week 5 (Silver)
- Dec. 3 (4 - 6:30PM) - Experimental methods in visual neuroscience / Visual cortical development and plasticity
- Dec. 5 (4-6PM) - Visual cortical development and plasticity
