UCI Psychology 202c  CogSci Proseminar Spring 2004  SYLLABUS  (Sperling)

Aims:  1a. Be able to describe visual stimuli that might be used in
experiments
           including CRT monitors, projection devices in fMRI, etc.
        b. Be able to understand colloquia and work of current vision
faculty,
           prepare to read articles that deal with vision and visual
perception.
        c. Provide background for more advanced courses.
       2.  Practice giving brief presentations.

May 11 (Tue) 202C 11  Sperling 1  Outline of course, Photons,
photometry, visual  angles, blind spot.
May 13 (Thu) 202C 12  Sperling 2  Optics of the eye, diopters, acquired myopia,
  neuorns, nerve impulses, anatomy of the retina, start receptive fields.
May 18 (Tue) 202C 13  Sperling 3  retina, adaptation via tracking methods.
   neural economy, electrodes, Kuffler cat ON, OFF; LGN, Hubel-Wiesel receptive
   fields, hypercolumns, visual pathways;  reverse correlation; homunculus,
   Type 1 and Type 2 expts.
May 20 (Thu) 202C 14  Sperling 4   EPSPs, inhibition (Cl-, K+, GABA), shunting
  inhibition model, Weber's expt, JND, Fechner log, logarithm vs feedforward
  gain control, sensory scaling via magnitude estimation, consequences in CRTs,
  HiFi, threshold for trigger, psychometric fc, noise density, shunting inhib +
  noise; tiling space, pyramid representation; reverse correlation, M-sequences
May 25 (Tue) 202C 15  Sperling 5   Catch up; complex cells, linear systems def,
  sine waves, Fourier, square-wave demo, points/sines/reverse correlation
May 27 (Thu) 202C 16  Sperling 6   Hypercolumns concluded; Color vision
                                       +Iverson;
Jun  1 (Tue) 202C 17  Sperling 7   Second-order demo; D'Zmura; Monnier & Shevel;
                                   Cicerone; why theory; Type 1 and Type 2 expts
Jun  3 (Thu) 202C 18  Sperling 8.  Motion systems, structure from motion,
                                   equivalence of motion & texture computations;
                                   Reichardt model; Domini & Brownstein
Jun  8 (Tue) 202C 19  Sperling 9   Chubb; Sperling; Dosher;
Jun 10 (Thu)  202C 20  Sperling 10  Yellott; Singh & Hoffman.  Catch up.

Jun 15 (Tue) Final Exam     If all HW received, no exam given

  POSSIBLY NOT COVERED IN 2004
Eye movments
Measurement and scaling
...

Papers:

COLOR THEORY (Iverson)  - Lin
1. Iverson, G. & D'Zmura, M. (1995).
Color Constancy: Spectral Recovery using bilinear trichromatic models.
Luce, R. D., D'Zmura, M., Iverson, G., and Romney, K. (Eds).
Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Articles in Honor of
Tarow Indow's 70th Birthday.
Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). xiii+356pp.  Pp. 169-185.

COLOR & SPATIAL INTERACTIONS -1-  (D'Zmura)  - Gertsberg

2. D'Zmura, M., and Singer, B.  (1999).  Contrast gain control.
In K. R. Gegenfurtner and L. T. Sharpe (Eds).
Color Vision.  From Genes to Perception.  
Cambridge University Press.  369-385.

     Reference paper for presenter (details, if needed)
     Singer, B. and D'Zmura, M. (1995).
     Contrast gain control. A bilinear model for chromatic selectivity.
     Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 12, 667-685.

COLOR & SPATIAL INTERACTIONS -2-  (Shevell, U. Chicago) Berry
3. Monnier, P. and Shevell, S. K. (2003).
Large shifts in color appearance from patterned chromatic backgrounds.
Nature Neuroscience, 6, 801-802.

COLOR & SPATIAL INTERACTIONS -3-  (Cicerone)  Rogalski
4. Cicerone, C. M., Gowdy, P. D., Hoffman, D. D., and Kim, J. S. (1995).
The perception of color from motion.
Perception and Psychophysics, 57, 761-777.

DEPTH/SHAPE  (Braunstein)    Kwak
5. Domini, F., and Braunstein, M. L. (1998).
Recovery of 3-D structure from motion is neither Euclidean nor affine.
J. of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24,
1273-1295.

DEPTH/SHAPE -6- (Hoffman)  Pyles
6. Singh, M., and Hoffman, D. (2001).  Part-based representations of visual
shape and implications for visual cognition.
In From fragments to objects: Segmentation and grouping in vision.

MOTION (Chubb) Tabuchi
7. Chubb, C. and Sperling, G. (1989).
Second-order motion perception: Space/time separable mechanisms
Proceedings: Workshop on Visual Motion.  (March 20-22, 1989, Irvine, CA)
Washington, D.C: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989.  Pp. 126-138.

     Chubb, C., and Sperling, G. (1988).  (More details, photos, for presenter)
     Drift-balanced random stimuli: A general basis for studying non-Fourier
     motion perception.
     J. Opt. Soc. of Amer. A: Optics and Image Science, 5, 1986-2006.

MOTION, ATTENTION, SALIENCE (Sperling)  Scofield
8. Blaser, E., Sperling, G., and Lu, Z-L. (1999).
Measuring the Amplification of Attention.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 96.  8289-8294.

SHAPE EXTRACTION (Yellott) Vaden
9. Chubb, C & Yellott, J. I. (2000).
Every discrete, finite image is uniquely determined by its dipole histogram.
Vision Research, 40, 485-492.

ATTENTION/LNG MECHANISMS (Dosher)   Hsieh
10.  Dosher, B. A., and Lu, Zhong-Lin. (2000).
Noise exclusion in spatial attention.
Psychological Science, 11, 139-146.

    Dosher, B. A., and Lu, Zhong-Lin. (2000).  (More details, for presenter) 
    Mechanisms of attention in precuing of location.
    Vision Research, 40, 1269-1292.