Neurowissenschaftliche Psychologie
Allgemeine Psychologie Grundstudium 3. Semester
Dienstag 12.00-13.30 Raum F9
Seminar Visuelle Neurowissenschaften

Kontakt für Fragen und Änderungen: Felix Wichmann (felix@tuebingen.mpg.de)

21. Oktober Einführung, Vergabe der Referate

28. Oktober Übersicht

4. November Optischer Apparat

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 2: Image formation, p. 13-44. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Westheimer, G. (1986). The eye as an optical instrument. In: Boff, Kaufman & Thomas (Eds.) Handbook of Perception and Human Performance. Volume 1: Sensory Processes and Perception, 4-1 to 4-20.

Marimont, D.H. & Wandell, B.A. (1994). Matching color images: the effects of axial chromatic aberration. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 11, 3113-3122.

11. und 18. November - ausgefallen wegen Studentenstreik; alle Themen werden um eine Woche nach hinten verschoben -

25. November Photorezeptorempfindlichkeit und evolutionäre Grundlagen des Farbensehens

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 4: Wavelength encoding, p. 69-102. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Nathans, J. (1992) Die Gene für das Farbensehen. In W. Singer (Hrg.) Gehirn und Kognition. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg. (Jens Gebhardt)

Mollon, J.D. & Jordan, G. (1988). Eine evolutionäre Interpretation des menschlichen Farbensehens. Die Farbe, 35/36, 139-170. (Patrick Marx)

Dominy,N.J. & Lucas, P.W. (2001) Ecological importance of trichromatic vision to primates. Nature, 410, 364-366.

2. Dezember Photorezeptormosaik

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 3: The photoreceptor mosaic, p. 45-67. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Williams, D., MacLeod, D.I.A. & Hayhoe, M. (1981) Punctate sensitivity of the blue sensitive mechanism. Vision Research, 21, 1357-1375.
Roorda, A. & Williams, D.R. (1999) The arrangement of the three cone classes in the living human eye. Nature, 397, 520-522. (siehe auch News and Views von Heinz Wässle, Buchkapitel in Gegenfurtner & Sharpe) (Martin Conrad)

2. Dezember Retino-kortikale Kanäle

Merigan, W.H. & Maunsell, J.H.R. (1993) How parallel are the primate visual pathways? Annual Review of Neuroscience, 16, 369-402.

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chaptesr 5 and 6: The retinal and the cortical representation, p. 111-194. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Felleman, D.J. & Van Essen, D.C. (1991) Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 1, 1-47.

Maunsell, J.H.R., Nealey, T.A. & DePriest, D.D. (1990) Magnocellular and parvocellular contributions to responses in the middle temporal visual area (MT) of the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 10, 3323-3334. (Joseph Richter)

9. Dezember Mustererkennung I - fällt wegen Krankheit aus, Thema wird am 16.12. zusammen mit der Mustererkennung II behandelt

16. Dezember Mustererkennung I

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 7: Pattern sensitivity, p. 45-67. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Campbell, F.W. & Robson, J.G. (1968). The application of Fourier Analysis to the visibility of gratings. Journal of Physiology, 197, 551-566.
Henning, G.B., Hertz, B.G., & Broadbent, D.E. (1975). Some experiments bearing on the hypothesis that the visual system analyzes patterns in independent bands of spatial frequency. Vision Research 15, 887-899.

16. Dezember Mustererkennung II

Graham, N. (1980) Visual Pattern Analyzers. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 7: Pattern sensitivity, p. 45-67. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Solomon, J.A. & Pelli, D.G. (1994) The visual filter mediating letter identification. Nature, 369, 395-397.

Kersten, D. (1987) Predictability and redundancy of natural images. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4, 2395-2400.

Field, D. (1987) Relationship between the statistics of natural images and the response properties of cortical cells. Journal of the Optical Society of AmericaA, 4, 2379-2394. (Jan Drewes)
von der Heydt, R. (1995) Form analysis in the visual cortex. In: Gazzaniga, M. (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences, 1st Edition, Kap 23, 365-382.

13. Januar Bewegungswahrnehmung

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 10: Motion and depth, p. 341-386. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Watson, A. B., Thompson, P. G. , Murphy, B. J. and Nachmias, J. (1980) Summation and discrimination of gratings moving in opposite directions. Vision Research, 20, 341-347. (Tim Klucken)

Newsome, W.T., Britten, K.H. & Movshon, J.A. (1989) Neuronal correlates of a perceptual decision. Nature, 341, 52-54.
Salzman, C.D. Britten, K.H. & Newsome, W.T. (1990) Cortical microstimulation influences perceptual judgements of motion direction. Nature, 346, 174-177.

20. Januar Farbwahrnehmung

Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2003) Cortical mechanisms of colour vision. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, 563-572.

Gegenfurtner, K.R. & Kiper, D.C. (2003) Color vision. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 26, 181-206.

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of vision, chapter 9: Color, p. 287-340. Sunderland: Sinauer.

Krauskopf, J., Williams, D. R. & Heeley, D. W. (1982) Cardinal directions of color space. Vision Research, 22, 1123-1131. (Mario Dirks)

Derrington, A. M., Krauskopf, J. & Lennie, P. (1984) Chromatic mechanisms in lateral geniculate nucleus of macaque. Journal of Physiology, 357, 241-265.

Webster, M.A. & Mollon, J.D. (1991) Changes in colour appearance following post-receptoral adaptation. Nature, 349, 235-238.

Gegenfurtner, K.R. & Kiper, D.C. (1992) Contrast detection in luminance and chromatic noise. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 9, 1880-1888.

27. Januar Neuroimaging

Wandell, B. A. (1999) Computational Neuroimaging of human visual cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 22:145-173.

Brewer JB, Zhao Z, Desmond JE, et al. (1998) Making memories: Brain activity that predicts how well visual experience will be remembered. Science, 281, 1185-1187. (Matthias Remane)

Grill-Spector K, Kushnir T, Hendler T, et al. (1998) A sequence of object-processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe. Human Brain Mapping, 6, 316-328. (Brian White)

McKeefry, D.J. & Zeki, S.M. (1997) The position and topography of the human color center as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain, 120, 2229-2242.

3. Februar Augenbewegungen

Carpenter, R. H. S. (1988). Movements of the eyes, 2nd ed. (Ch. 4: Saccades, pp. 69-102). London: Pion.

Leigh, J. R. & Zee, D. S. (1999). The neurology of eye movements, 3rd ed. (Ch. 3: The saccadic system, pp. 90-150). New York: Oxford University Press.

Colby, C. L., Duhamel, J.-R., Goldberg, M. E. (1996). Visual, presaccadic, and cognitive activation of single neurons in monkey lateral intraparietal area. Journal of Neurophysiology, 76 (5), 2841-2852. (Stefanie Bader)

Sparks, D. L. (1999). Conceptual issues related to the role of the superior colliculus in the control of gaze. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 9, 698-707.

Snyder, L. H., Batista, A. P. & Andersen, R. A. (1998). Change in motor plan, without a change in the spatial locus of attention, modulates activity in posterior parietal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 79, 2814-2819.

Tehovnik, E. J., Sommer, M. A., Chou, I., Slocum, W. M., & Schiller, P. H. (2000). Eye fields in the frontal lobes of primates. Brain Research Review, 32, 413-448.
Wurtz, R. H., Sommer, M. A., Paré, M., & Ferraina, S. (2001). Signal transformations from cerebral cortex to superior colliculus for the generation of saccades. Vision Research, 41, 3399-3412. (Katja Becker)

10. Februar  Handlungssteuerung (Volker Franz)

Milner, A.D. & Goodale, M.A. (1995). The visual brain in action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Goodale, M. A., Milner, A. D., Jakbson, L. S., & Carey, D. P. (1991) A neurological dissociation between perceiving objects and grasping them. Nature, 349, 154-156. (Astrid Grunau)

Aglioti, S., DeSouza, J.F.X. & Goodale, M.A. (1995) Size-contrast illusions deceive the eye but not the hand. Current Biology, 5, 679-685. (Claudia Friesenhausen)
Franz, V.H., Gegenfurtner, K.R., Bülthoff, H.H. & Fahle, M. (2000) Grasping visual illusions: No evidence for a dissociation between perception and action. Psychological Science, 11, 20-25.

17. Februar Neuropsychologie (Doris Braun) und Abschlussbesprechung

Grüsser, O.-J. & Landis, T. (1991) The world turns grey: Achromatopsia, colour agnosia and other impairments of colour vision caused by cerebral lesions. In: J. R. Cronly-Dillon (ed.): Vision and Visual Dysfunction, Vol 12, Visual Agnosia, 19, 358-382.

Zeki, S.M. (1991) Cerebral akinetopsia (visual motion blindness). Brain, 114, 811-824.

Baker Jr., C., Hess, R.F. & Zihl, J. (1991) Residual motion perception in a “motion-blind” patient, assessed with limited-lifetime random dot stimuli. Journal of Neuroscience, 11, 454-461. (Barbara Noebel)

Kennard, C., Lawden, M., Moreland, A.B. & Ruddock, K.H. (1995) Colour identification and colour constancy are impaired in a patient with incomplete achromatopsia associated with prestriate cortical lesions. Procedings of the Royal Society London B, 260, 169-175.

Cowey, A. & Stoerig, P. (1991) The neurobiology of blindsight. Trends in Neurosciences, 14, 140-145.

Driver, J. & Mattingley, J. B. (1998) Parietal neglect and visual awareness, Nature Neuroscience, 1, 17-22. (Karin Kühl-Kapmann)