Visual Processing Journal Club 
Spring 2004
Matteo Carandini
5 January
Tutorial on Normalization:

Heeger DJ (1992) Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex. Vis Neurosci 9:181-197.

Foley JM (1994) Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model. J Opt Soc Am A 11:1710-1719.

Mark Pettet
12 January
Allen HA, Hess RF, Mansouri B, Dakin SC (2003) Integration of first- and second-order orientation. J Opt Soc Am A 20:974-986.
19 January
Martin Luther King Day
Rob McPeek
26 January
Sommer, M. A., and Wurtz, R. H. (2002). A pathway in primate brain for internal monitoring of movements. Science 296, 1480-1482.
Valerio Mante
2 February
Williams ZM, Elfar JC, Eskandar EN, Toth LJ, Assad JA (2003) Parietal activity and the perceived direction of ambiguous apparent motion. Nat Neurosci 6:616-623.
Anna Ma-Wyatt
9 February
Whitney D, Westwood DA, Goodale MA (2003) The influence of visual motion on fast reaching movements to a stationary object. Nature 423:869-873.
16 February
Presidents day
Matthew Peterson

(UC Berkeley)

23 February
Seminar:

Interocular suppression in the primary visual cortex

Lawrence Sincich

(UCSF)

1 March
Seminar:

The private lines of area MT

Preeti Verghese
8 March
Matteo Carandini
15 March

Whitney, D., Goltz, H. C., Thomas, C. G., Gati, J. S., Menon, R. S., and Goodale, M. A. (2003). Flexible retinotopy: motion-dependent position coding in the visual cortex. Science 302, 878-881.

Fu, Y. X., Shen, Y., Gao, H., and Dan, Y. (2004). Asymmetry in visual cortical circuits underlying motion-induced perceptual mislocalization. J Neurosci 24, 2165-2171.

22 March
COSYNE meeting
James Coughlan
29 March
Kording, K. P., and Wolpert, D. M. (2004). Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning. Nature 427: 244-247.
Vincent Bonin
5 April
Jancke, D., Chavane, F., Naaman, S., and Grinvald, A. (2004). Imaging cortical correlates of illusion in early visual cortex. Nature 428, 423-426.
Robert Frazor

(U Texas)

12 April
Seminar:

Striate Cortex Neurons: Why Transience Matters

19 April
pre ARVO/VSS panic
26 April
ARVO meeting
3 May
VSS Meeting
Mike Menz
10 May
Ozeki H, Sadakane O, Akasaki T, Naito T, Shimegi S, and Sato H (2004) Relationship between excitation and inhibition underlying size tuning and contextual response modulation in the cat primary visual cortex. J Neurosci 24(6): 1428-1438.
Laura Renninger
17 May
Parkhurst D, Law K, Niebur E (2002) Modeling the role of salience in the allocation of overt visual attention. Vision Res 42:107-123.
24 May
Canceled
31 May
Memorial day
Nicholas Priebe

(Northwestern University)

7 June

12 pm

Seminar:

Direction selectivity in primary visual cortex

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