Visual Processing Journal Club 

The Visual Processing Journal Club meets on Mondays at 3:30 pm in the 2nd floor Conference Room (Room 204). Click here if you need address or directions.

Topics
Visual Processing studied with psychophysical or physiological methods, with an emphasis on functional approaches and models. The area of interest is roughly the one covered at the meeting of the Vision Sciences Society. Very appreciated are papers that bridge domains.

What to present?
Important new developments. Papers should be (1) important or excellent in some way; (2) recent (or old, but then they have to be really good); (3) of plausible interest to the members.

Need inspiration? Check out what's being presented at other Vision Journal Clubs, at New York University, at University of South California, at University of Pennsylvania, at Brown University, or at UCLA (some of these links come and go, especially between academic semesters). Also, see what has already been presented:

Mailing List
To subscribe, send email to visproc-subscribe@ski.org (content is irrelevant). You will receive an automated reply, to which you should reply. Then you will receive a second email with instructions on how to unsubscribe when you are tired of all this.

Organizer
Andrea Benucci (andrea@ski.org).

PDF
Click on the titles of the papers for the PDF version.

Fall 2005
Lawrence Sincich

(UCSF)
17 October
Seminar

Geniculate editing of retinal spike trains
Robert Frazor
24 October
Horton JC, Adams DL (2005) The cortical column: a structure without a function. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 360:837-862. (Supp. material)
Matteo Carandini
31 October
Hosoya T, Baccus SA, Meister M (2005) Dynamic predictive coding by the retina. Nature 436:71-77.
7 November
Pre-meeting panic
14 November
SfN Meeting
21 November
Post-meeting refractory period
Valerio Mante
28 November
Machens CK, Romo R, Brody CD (2005). Flexible control of mutual inhibition: a neural model of two-interval discrimination. Science 307:1121-24.
Preeti Verghese
5 December
Roelfsema PR, Lamme VA, Spekreijse H (2004). Synchrony and covariation of firing rates in the primary visual cortex during contour grouping. Nat Neurosci. 7(9):982-91
Xoana Troncoso

(Barrow Neurological Institute)
12 December
Seminar

The role of corner angle in human visual physiology and brightness perception
Mark Schira
19 December
Haynes JD, Deichmann R, Rees G (2005). Eye-specific effects of binocular rivalry in the human lateral geniculate nucleus.Nature. 438(7067):496-9

Supporting material: Lehky and Maunsell (1996); Wunderlich et al. (2005).
26 December
Winter Holiday
2 January
New Year's Day 2006
Suzanne McKee
9 January
McAdams CJ, Reid RC (2005) Attention modulates the responses of simple cells in monkey primary visual cortex. J Neurosci. 25(47):11023-33.
16 January
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Michael Menz
23 January
Quiroga RQ, Reddy L, Kreiman G, Koch C, Fried I (2005). Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain. Nature 435(7045):1102-7.

Comment by Connor CE (2005) Nature 435(7045):1036-7

Laura Renninger
30 January
Caspi A, Beutter BR, Eckstein MP (2004). The time course of visual information accrual guiding eye movement decisions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101(35):13086-90.
Yury Petrov
6 February
Bichot NP, Rossi AF, Desimone R (2005). Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science. 308(5721):529-34.

Womelsdorf T, Fries P, Mitra PP, Desimone R (2005). Gamma-band synchronization in visual cortex predicts speed of change detection. Nature. Dec 21 [Epub ahead of print]
Christopher Tyler
13 February
Kriegeskorte N, Sorger B, Naumer M, Schwarzbach J, van den Boogert E, Hussy W, Goebel R (2003) Human cortical object recognition from a visual motion flowfield. J Neurosci 23:1451-1463.

Background

Tootell RB, Reppas JB, Kwong KK, Malach R, Born RT, Brady TJ, Rosen BR, Belliveau JW (1995) Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci 15:3215-3230.
20 February
President's Day
Vincent Bonin
27 February
Sharpee TO, Sugihara H, Kurgansky AV, Rebrik SP, Stryker MP, Miller KD (2006). Adaptive filtering enhances information transmission in visual cortex. Nature. 439(7079):936-42.
Anthony Norcia
6 March
Koyama S, Sasaki Y, Andersen GJ, Tootell RB, Matsuura M, Watanabe T (2005). Separate processing of different global-motion structures in visual cortex is revealed by FMRI. Curr Biol. 15(22):2027-32.
Andrea Benucci
13 March
Palanca BJ, DeAngelis GC (2005). Does neuronal synchrony underlie visual feature grouping? Neuron. 46(2):333-46.
Alex Wade
20 March
Murray SO, Boyaci H, Kersten D (2006). The representation of perceived angular size in human primary visual cortex. Nat Neurosci. 9(3):429-34.
Anna Ma-Wyatt
27 March