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 (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)

  • Oct. 31 - The problem of vision; comparative vision; rods and cones.
  • Nov. 2 - Phototransduction; lateral inhibition

Week 2 (Olshausen)

Week 3 (Olshausen/Silver)

  • Lab 2 - natural image statistics and efficient coding

Week 4 (Silver)

Week 5 (Silver)