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==== Week 4 (Silver) ====
==== Week 4 (Silver) ====
* Nov. 23 - Extrastriate cortex: physiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology
* Nov. 23 - Extrastriate cortex: physiology, anatomy, and neuropsychology
** Lecture slides
** [http://redwood.berkeley.edu/bruno/VS212B/nov23_2009_lecture_slides.pdf Lecture slides]
** Supplemental readings (optional):
** Supplemental readings (optional):
*** Chalupa and Werner, Volume 1, Chapter 34, pp. 541-562
*** Chalupa and Werner, Volume 1, Chapter 34, pp. 541-562

Revision as of 00:01, 25 November 2009

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 (2004, 3rd 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. 2 - The problem of vision; comparative vision; rods and cones.
  • Nov. 4 - Photoreceptors; lateral inhibition

Week 2 (Olshausen)

Week 3 (Olshausen)

  • Lab 2 - natural image statistics and efficient coding

Week 4 (Silver)

Week 5 (Silver)

Week 6 (Silver)

  • Dec. 7 - Visual cortical development and plasticity
    • Supplemental readings (optional):
      • Fahle and Poggio, Introduction, pp. ix-xix
      • Kandel, Schwartz, and Jessell, Chapter 53, pp. 1049-1051; Chapter 54, pp. 1063-1066; Chapter 56, pp. 1115-1127
      • Huberman, Feller, and Chapman (2008) "Mechanisms underlying development of visual maps and receptive fields" Annual Review of Neuroscience 31:479-509
      • Wandell and Smirnakis (2009) "Plasticity and stability of visual field maps in adult primary visual cortex" Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10:873-884