Infant Vision Laboratory
The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
2318 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA 94115
415-345-2075
margaret@ski.org

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Normal Development

Brown, R.J., Candy, T.R. and Norcia, A.M. (in press) Development of rivalry and interocular masking in human infants. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science.

Skoczenski, A.M. and Norcia, A.M. (1999) Development of VEP vernier acuity and grating acuity in human infants, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40, 2411-2417.

Skoczenski, A.M., and Norcia, A.M. (1998). Neural noise limitations on infant visual sensitivity. Nature, 391, 697-700.

Abnormal Development

Good, W.V., Burden, S., Candy, T.R., Carden, S., Polat, U. and Norcia, A.M. (submitted). Spatial summation in amblyopia. JOSA.

Kovacs, I., Polat, U. and Norcia, A.M. (submitted) A new test of contour integration deficits in strabismus and amblyopia Vision Research

Pennefather, P.M., Chandna, A., Kovacs. I., Polat, U. and Norcia, A.M. (1999) Contour detection threshold: repeatability and learning with "contour cards". Spatial Vision, Feature Issue on Long-Range Interactions.

Shea, S.J., Chandna, A. and Norcia, A.M. (1999) Oscillatory motion but not pattern reversal elicits monocular motion VEP biases in infantile esotropia. Vision Res.

Brosnahan, D., Norcia, A.M., Schor, C.M., and Taylor, D. (1998) OKN, perceptual and VEP direction biases in strabismus. Vision Research, 38, 2833-2840.

Human cortical physiology

Norcia, A.M., Wesemann, W. and Manny, R.E. (in press) ) Electrophysiological correlates of vernier and relative motion mechanisms in human visual cortex. Visual Neuroscience.

Candy, T.R., Skoczenski, A.M. and Norcia, A.M. (1999) Isolating orientation interaction to assess the visual cortex. OSA Visual Science and its Applications.

Candy T.R., Norcia A.M., and Polat U. (1998) Preferential Loss of Lateral Interaction in Amblyopia. OSA Vision Science and its Applications, Technical Digest.

Polat, U. and Norcia, A.M. (1998) Elongated physiological summation pools in human visual cortex. Vision Research, 39, 3735-3742.

Animal cortical phsyiology

Wilson, J.R., Noyd, W.W., Aiyer, A.D., Norcia, A.M., Mustari, M.J., and Boothe, R.G. (1999) Asymmetric responses in cortical visually evoked potentials to motion are not derived from eye movements. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 40(10), 2435-2439

Polat U., Mizobe K., Pettet M.W., Kasamatsu T., and Norcia A.M. (1998). Collinear stimuli regulate visual responses depending on cell's contrast threshold. Nature, 391, 580-584.

Brown R.J., Wilson J.R., Norcia A.M., and Boothe R.G. (1998) Development of directional motion symmetry in the monocular visually evoked potential of infant monkeys. Vision Research, 38, 1253-1263.

Kasamatsu T., Kitano M., Sutter E.E., and Norcia A.M. (1998) Lack of lateral inhibitory interactions in visual cortex of monocularly deprived cats. Vision Research 38, 1-25.