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, et al. (2013, 5th edition) Principles of Neural Science
  • Jeremy Wolfe, et al. (2012, 3rd edition) Sensation and Perception

Syllabus

Week 1 (Olshausen)

• Nov. 4 - 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. 6 - Phototransduction; photoreceptor renewal; dynamic range
  • Lecture slides
  • Reading:
    • Rodieck: Chapter 8, plus "Interlude on plotting light intensity" (pp. 151-154)

Week 2 (Olshausen)

• Nov. 11 - (Veteran's Day Holiday)
• Nov. 13 - 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. 18 - 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. 20 - 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

• Lab 2 - natural image statistics and efficient coding

Week 4 (Silver)

• Nov. 25 (4 - 6PM) - Extrastriate cortex
  • Extrastriate cortex
    • Lecture slides
    • Supplemental readings (optional):
      • Chalupa and Werner, Volume 1, Chapter 34, pp. 541-562
      • Fahle and Greenlee, Chapter 7, pp. 210-218
      • Kandel et al., Chapter 28, pp. 621-628
      • Wolfe et al., Chapter 4, pp. 85-91; Chapter 8, p. 240
      • 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:
      • Waterfall motion illusion
      • Single unit recording in area MT
      • Locating area MT with fMRI
      • Prosopagnosia
      • Misbinding of color and motion

Week 5 (Silver)

• Dec. 2 (4 - 6PM) - Visual attention
  • Visual attention
    • Lecture slides
    • Supplemental readings (optional):
      • Fahle and Greenlee, Chapter 7, pp. 218-236
      • Gazzaniga, Chapter 13, pp. 205-217; Chapter 14, pp. 219-234; Chapter 19, pp. 281-288
      • Wolfe et al., Chapter 7, pp. 187-218
    • Videos from lecture:
      • gorilla change blindness demo
      • The Colour Changing Card Trick
      • airplane change blindness demo
      • sphinx change blindness demo
• Dec. 4 (4 - 6PM) - Experimental methods in visual neuroscience
  • Experimental methods in visual neuroscience
    • Lecture slides
    • Supplemental readings (optional):
      • Logothetis and Wandell (2004) "Interpreting the BOLD signal" Annual Review of Neuroscience 66:735-769
      • Lopes da Silva (2013) "EEG and MEG: Relevance to neuroscience" Neuron 80:1111-1128
    • Videos from lecture:
      • single cell calcium imaging
      • evoked versus spontaneous activity with voltage-sensitive dyes
      • orientation pinwheels in visual cortex
      • gray/white matter segmentation movie
      • cortical inflation and flattening movie
      • movie of layout of upper right visual field quadrant
      • rotating wedge stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
      • expanding ring stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
      • angle mapping in visual cortex
      • eccentricity mapping in visual cortex
      • cortical magnification

Week 6 (Silver)

• Dec. 11 (4 - 6PM) - Visual cortical development and plasticity
  • Lecture slides
  • Visual cortical development and plasticity
    • Supplemental readings (optional):
      • Fahle and Poggio, Introduction, pp. ix-xix
      • Gazzaniga, Chapter 1, pp. 7-28; Chapter 4, pp. 67-72; Chapter 8, pp. 129-140
      • Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell, Chapter 54, pp. 1218-1221; Chapter 56, pp. 1259-1274
      • Huberman, Feller, and Chapman (2008) "Mechanisms underlying development of visual maps and receptive fields" Annual Review of Neuroscience 31:479-509
      • Kirkby, Sack, Firl, and Feller (2013) "A role for correlated spontaneous activity in the assembly of neural circuits" Neuron 80:1129-1144
      • Wandell and Smirnakis (2009) "Plasticity and stability of visual field maps in adult primary visual cortex" Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10:873-884
    • Video from lecture:
      • Retinal waves