VS212B

Week 1

• Nov. 7
  • slides
  • Reading:
    • Land & Fernald paper on Evolution of Eyes,
    • Rodieck: Chapters 3 & 8 (pp. 177-186), plus "Interlude on plotting light intensity" (pp. 151-154)

Week 2

• Lecture 3 slides
• Lecture 4 slides
• Reading: Van Essen & Anderson article on Information Processing Strategies and Pathways in the Primate Visual System
• Handout on Aliasing
• Handout on Degrees, radians, retinal size and sampling
• Useful numbers in vision science
• Vanishing gray

Week 3

• Lecture 5 slides
• Derrington-Krauskopf-Lennie paper on color-opponency in LGN
• Ruderman et al paper on principal components of color in natural images
• Spanish castle color after-effect
• Olshausen & Field paper on sparse coding of natural images

Week 4

• Lecture 6 slides - pdf (2 per page)
• Lecture 6 slides - pdf (4 per page)
• required reading for Lecture 6 Livingstone and Hubel 1988
• waterfall motion aftereffect
• spiral motion aftereffect
• MT direction selectivity movie
• localizing V1 and MT with fMRI
• biological motion - point light walkers
• optic ataxia video
• misbinding of color and motion
• pink dots illusion
• Lecture 7 slides - pdf (2 per page)
• Lecture 7 slides - pdf (4 per page)
• required reading for Lecture 7 Reynolds and Chelazzi 2004
• personal identity change blindness demo
• gorilla change blindness demo
• airplane change blindness demo
• sphinx change blindness demo

Week 5

• Lecture 8 slides - pdf (2 per page)
• Lecture 8 slides - pdf (4 per page)
• required reading for Lecture 8 Logothetis and Wandell 2004
• calcium imaging of hippocampal neurons
• orientation pinwheels demo
• voltage-sensitive dyes - evoked versus spontaneous spike-triggered activity
• gray/white matter segmentation movie
• cortical inflation and flattening movie
• rotating wedge stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
• expanding ring stimulus used for retinotopic mapping
• Lecture 9 slides - pdf (2 per page)
• Lecture 9 slides - pdf (4 per page)
• required reading for Lecture 9 Sengpiel and Kind 2002
• retinal waves movie