Winter 2003.    PSYCH 269 LEC A: SPEC TOP/HUMAN PERF course code 68835

L1 Jan 7 (Tue).   Organizational meeting

L2 Jan 9 (Thu) Object and retinal spatial frequencies in character recognition.

      Background article 1.  Object and spatial retinal frequencies

   Parish, D. H. and G. Sperling. (1991).   [Hisaki Tabuchi]
   Object spatial frequencies, retinal spatial frequencies, noise, and the
        efficiency of letter discrimination.
   Vision Research, 1991, 31, 1399-1415.

       Some of you may already be quite familiar with this paper.  If so,
look at the ideal observer model.  You'll probably be asked to make an
ideal observer model for a psychophysical study at some stage in your
career, probably even at UCI.

   Sperling, G. (1989).  [Son-Hee Lyu]
   Three stages and two systems of visual processing.
   Spatial Vision, 1989, 4 (Prazdny Memorial Issue), 183-207.

        This is in part a further discussion section of Parish and Sperling,
especially why an optimum detector has such low spatial frequencies, and an
overview and introduction to the issues raised by Majaj et al.

   Majaj, J, Pelli, D. G>, Kurshan, P. and Palomares, M.  (2002). [Arvin Hsu]
   The role of spatial frequency channels in letter identification.
   Vision Research, 42, 1165-1184.

L3 Jan 16 (Tue) Object and retinal spatial frequencies (cont'd)
                Cortical magnification and receptive field sizes

   Stevens, C. F. (2002). [Joetta Gobell]
   Predicting functional properties of visual cortex from an evolutionary scaling law. 
   Neuron, 36, 1399-142.  

   Bkgd:
   Stevens, C. F. (2002). [Joetta Gobell]
   An evolutionary scalin glaw for the primate visual system and its basis in cortical function.
   Nature, 4111, 193-195.
   
L4 Jan 21 (Tue) First-order motion standstill: Historical observations.

Foster, D. H. (1969).   [Son-Hee Lyu]
Vision Research, 

F.W. Campbell & L. Maffei. (1981)  [Tseng]
The influence of spatial frequency and contrast on the perception of moving patterns.
Vision Research, 21, 713-721

Van de grind, Koenderink, Van doorn, Milders, and Voerman. (1993)  [Tseng]
Inhomogeneity and anisotropies for motion detection in the monocular visual field of human observers.
Vision Research, 33, 1089-1107.

L5 Jan 28 (Tue) Habituation in sensory systems

Background article that illustrates correlation between MEG and psychophysics.

   Lu, Z.-L., Williamson, S. J. & Kaufman, L. (1992).  [Lyu]
   Behavioral lifetime of human sensory memory predicted by physiological measures.
   Science, 258, 1668-1670.

Uusitalo, M. A., Williamson, S. J., and Seppa, M. T. (1996). [Appelbaum]
Dynamical organisation of the human visual system revealed by lifetimes of activationtraces.
Neuroscience Letters, 213, 149-152,

Uusitalo, M. A., Jousmaki, V., Hari, R. (1997).    [Appelbaum]
Activation trace lifetime of human cortical responses evoked by apparent visual motion.
Neuroscience Letters, 224, 45-48,

Staddon, J. E. R., Chelaru, I. M., Higa, J. J. (2002).  [Appelbaum, Sperling]
Habituation, memory and the brain: the dynamics of interval timing.
Behavioral Processes, 57, 71-88.

L6 Feb 11 (Tue) Theories of boundary detection and Mach bands; spatial
   frequency addition at boundaries.  See review of theories in Passoa, below

Passoa, L. (1996). [Filling-in, Hsu]
Mach bands: How many models are possible?  Recent experimental findings and modeling attempts.
Vision Research, 36, 3205-3227.

Morrone, M. and Burr, D. (1988). [Local energy, Gobell]
Feature detection in human vision: A phase dependent energy model.
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 235, 221-245.

Fiorentinin, A., Baumgartner, G., Magnussen, S., Schiller, P., and Thomas, J.
(1990). [Multi-channel, Appelbaum]
The perception of brightness and darkness:  Relations to neuronal receptive fields.
In Spillmann, L. and Werner, J. (Eds), Visual perception: the neurophysiological foundations. 
San Diego, CA: Academic Press. Pp. 129-161.

L7 Feb 25 (Tue)  (Feb 18 postponed due to fMRI activity)

Tolhurst, D. (1972)  [Inhibition of bar and edge detectors, Ding]
On the possible existence of edge detector neurons in the human visual system.
Vision Research, 12, 797-804.

du Buf, J. (1994). [Cell assembly, Lyu]
Ramp edges, Mach bands, and the functional significance of the simple cell assembly.
Biological Cybernetics, 68, 321-333.

Watt, R., and Morgan, M. (1985). [MIRAGE, Tseng]
A theory of the primitive spatial code in human vision.
Vision Research, 25, 1661-1674.

L8 Mar 4 Sensory coding concluded, long-term sensory changes: McCullough effect

Kingdom, F., and Moulden, B. (1992). [MIDAAS, Tabuchi]
A multi-channel approach to brightness coding.
Vision Research, 32, 1565-1582.

Pessoa, L., Mingolla, E., and Heiko Neumann. (1995). [Hsu]
A contrast- and luminance-driven multiscale network of brightness perception.
Vision Research, 35, 2201-2223.

   Perceptual learning as related to Tseng et al's attention task

Dodwell, P. and Humphrey, G.  (1990).  [Overview & review, Tseng]
A functional theory of the McCulloough effect.
Psychological Review, 97, 78-89.

Three other theories (reviewed very briefly)

Allan, L. G. and Siegel, S. (1986).
McCullough effects as coditioned responses:  Reply to Skowbo.
Psycholgical Bulletin, 100, 388-93.

Favreau, O. E. (1979).
Persistence of simple and contingent motion aftereffects.
Perception and Psychophysics, 26, 187-194.

Grossberg, S. Hwang, S., and Mingolla, E. (2002).
Thalamocortical dynamics of the McCullough effect: boundary-surface alignment through perceptual learning.
Vision Research, 42, 12599-1286.

L9 Mar 11 Sensory adaptation, continued

Tseng concludes Dodwell & Humphrey: There's a contradiction with McCollouch
  effect being demonstrably complex on the one hand and monocular on the other
  and summarizes the principle results of long-term changes due to short
  periods of sensory adaptation.

Blakemore, C., Nachmias, J., and Sutton, P. (1970).
The perceived spatial frequency shift : Evidence for frequency-selective neurons in the human brain.
J. of Physiology, 210, 727-750.  [Tseng]

Favreau, O.E. (1979).
Persistence of simple and contingent motion aftereffects.
Perception and Psychophysics, 37, 155-162. [Sperling]

Frome, F., Harris, c.S., & Levinson, J. Z. (1975).
Extremely long-lasting shfits in perception of size after adaptation to gratings.
Bulletin of the Psychonomics Society, 6, 433.

Heggelund, P., and Hohmann, A. (1976).
Long-term retention of the "Gilinsky-Effect."
Vision Research, 16, 1015-1017.

Kalfin, K., and Locke, S. (1972).
Evaluation of long term visual motion after-image following monocular stimulation.
Vision Research, 12, 359-361.  [Tseng]

Masland, R.M. (1969).
Visual motion perceptoin: Experimental modification.
Science, 165, 819-821.  [Tseng]

Wolfe, J.M., and O'Connell, K.M. (1986).
Fagigue and structural change: Two consequences of visual pattern adaptation.
Invest. Ophtha. & Visual Science, 27, 538-543.  [Tseng]

   Brain imaging of McCollouch effect

Humphrey, G. k.,  James, T. W., Gati, J. S., Menon, R. S., and Goodale, M. A. (1999).  [Appelbaum]
Perception of the McCollough effect correlates with activity in extrastriate cortex: A resonance imaging study.
Psychological Science, 10, 444-448.

L 10.  Mar 13 (Thu)   Binocular vision and brain imaging

2:00p
Blake, R. and Logothetis, N. K. (2002).  [Ding]
Visual competition.  (Nature Reviews) 
Neuroscience, 3, 1-11.

3:00p    Srinivasan leads discussion of his own research and of

O'Shea, R. P. and Crassini, B. (1984). 
Binocular rivalry occurs without simultaneous presentation of rival stimuli.
Perception and Psychophysics, 36, 266-276.