Visual Processing Journal Club 

The Visual Processing Journal Club meets on Mondays at 12 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 Southern California, 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 2006

Robert Frazor
6 November
Chen Y, Geisler WS,Seidemann E (2006) Optimal decoding of correlated neural population responses in the primate visual cortex. Nat. Neurosci. Advanced online publication, 22 Oct.
Preeti Verghese
13 November
Rust NC, Mante V, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA (2006) How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns. Nat Neurosci. 9(11):1421-1431. Epub 2006 Oct 15.
20 November
Pause
James Coughlan
27 November
Schneidman E, Berry MJ 2nd, Segev R, Bialek W (2006) Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population. Nature. Apr 20; 440(7087):1007-12.
4 December
Cancelled
11 December
Cancelled
Andrea Benucci
18 December
Bruno RM, Sakmann B (2006) Cortex is driven by weak but synchronously active thalamocortical synapses Science. Jun 16;312(5780):1622-7
25 December
Christmas Day
1 January
New Year's Day
Suzanne McKee
8 January
Tanaka H, Ohzawa I (2006) Neural basis for stereopsis from second-order contrast cues. J Neurosci. Apr 19;26(16):4370-82.
15 January
Martin Luther King Day
Matteo Carandini
22 January
Ma, WJ, Beck JM, Latham PE, and Pouget A (2006) Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes. Nat Neurosci 9, 1432-1438.
Matteo Carandini
29 January
Frenkel MY, Sawtell NB, Diogo AC, Yoon B, Neve RL, Bear MF (2006) Instructive effect of visual experience in mouse visual cortex. Neuron 3;51(3):339-49.
Christopher Tyler
5 February
Logothetis NK, Wandell BA (2004) Interpreting the BOLD signal. Annu Rev Physiol. 66:735-69
Laura Renninger
12 February
Postponed
19 February
President's Day
Laura Renninger
26 February
Livne T, Sagi D (2007) Configuration infuence on crowding. Journal of Vision. 7(2):4, 1–12
Takuji Kasamatsu
5 March
Postponed
Alex Wade
12 March
Postponed
Takuji Kasamatsu
19 March
Frenkel MY, Bear MF (2004) How monocular deprivation shifts ocular dominance in visual cortex of young mice. Neuron. Dec 16;44(6):917-23
Alex Wade
26 March
Buracas GT, Boynton GM (2007) The effect of spatial attention on contrast response functions in human visual cortex. J Neurosci. Jan 3;27(1):93-7
Steffen Katzner
2 April
Webb BS, Ledgeway T, and McGraw PV (2007) Cortical pooling algorithms for judging global motion direction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Feb 27;104(9):3532-7
9 April
TBA
Tim Blanche

(Redwood Center, UCB)

16 April
23 April
Cancelled
Laura Busse
30 April
Jazayeri M, Movshon JA (2007) A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding. Nature. Apr 4; [Epub ahead of print]