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Revision as of 15:22, 8 September 2014
One of the goals of vision science is to understand the nature of perception and its neural substrates. There are now many well established techniques and paradigms in both psychophysics and neuroscience to address problems in vision. However, knowing how to frame these questions for investigation is not necessarily obvious. Nervous systems present us with stunning complexity, and the purpose of perception itself is deeply mysterious. The goal of this seminar course is to step back and ask, what are the important problems that remain unsolved in vision research, and how should these be approached empirically? The course will consist of alternating weeks of discussion and guest lectures by vision scientists who will frame their views of the core unsolved problems. Interdisciplinary groups of students will devise a practical research plan to address an unsolved problem of their choice.
Instructors: Stan Klein, Jerry Feldman, Bruno Olshausen, and Karl Zipser
GSI: Dan Coates
Enrollment information:
VS 298 (section 2), 2 units
CCN: 66478
Meeting time and place: NOTE NEW SEMINAR LOCATION Tuesday 6-8, 560 Evans (Redwood Center conference room)
Email list:
vs298_unsolved_problems_in_vision@lists.berkeley.edu subscribe
Weekly schedule:
Date | Topic/Reading |
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Sept. 2 | Introduction |
Sept. 9 | Methodology in vision science (Stan Klein)
Marcus background discussion
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Sept. 16 | Evening seminar, focus on student projects: form groups and discuss proposal topics |
Sept. 19 (Friday) 11:00 a.m., 5101 Tolman |
Gary Marcus lecture: Computational diversity and the mesoscale organization of the neocortex
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Sept. 23 | Marcus discussion Feldman background discussion |
Sept. 30 | Feldman lecture: The neural binding problem(s) and related mysteries
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Oct. 7 | Feldman discussion Malik background discussion
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Oct. 14 | Jitendra Malik lecture
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Oct. 21 | Malik discussion Nakayama background discussion
(All Nakayama pubs available here) |
Oct. 28 | Ken Nakayama lecture
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Nov. 3 (Monday)
12:30 p.m. 489 Minor Hall |
Shinsuke Shimojo lecture: Contour Interaction: as far from the muddling crowd?
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Nov. 4 | Nakayama and Shimojo discussion Wandell background discussion
In Brain Mapping: An Encyclopedic Reference (Edited by Thompson and Friston.) |
(Friday) Nov. 14 | Brian Wandell lecture
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Nov. 18 | Wandell discussion Gallant background discussion
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Nov. 25 | Jack Gallant lecture
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Dec. 2 | Christof Koch lecture: Unsolved Problems in Vision: Consciousness. Evening seminar: Koch Discussion |
Additional Readings
- recent special issue of CurrOpinNeuro journal
- Olshausen BA Olshausen (2013) Perception as an Inference Problem. pdf
- Olshausen BA (2012) 20 years of learning about vision: Questions answered, questions unanswered, and questions not yet asked. In: 20 Years of Computational Neuroscience (Symposium of the CNS 2010 annual meeting) pdf
- Kitaoka, A (2014) Color-dependent motion illusions in stationary images and their phenomenal dimorphism. Perception advance online publication pdf