PSY 619 - SENSORY CODING MECHANISMS

Reading List

Fall 2000




A) SOME BASIC STATEMENTS ABOUT THE FIELD:
 

Milner, P.M., and White, N.M. (1987). What is physiological psychology? Psychobiology, 15, 2-6.

Blakemore, C. (1976). An image of truth. In: C. Blakemore, Mechanics of the Mind (Chapt. 3, pp. 61-91). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Freeman, W.J. (1997). Three centuries of category errors in studies of the neural basis of consciousness and intentionality. Neural Networks,10, 1175-1183.

  B) MODULAR VERSUS DISTRIBUTED CONCEPTS:
  Fodor, J. A. (1985). Précis of The Modularity of Mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 8, 1-42.
  An extensive follow-up to Fodor’s discussion has been provided by: Pylyshyn, Z. (1999). Is vision continuous with cognition? The case for cognitive impenetrability of visual perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 341-423.
  Geschwind, N. (1970). The organization of language and the brain. Science, 17, 940-944.

Kaas, J.H. (2000). Why is brain size so important: Design problems and solutions as neocortex gets bigger or smaller. Brain & Mind, 1, 7-23.

Teuber, H.-L. (1975). Effects of focal brain injury on human behavior. In: D. B. Tower (Ed.), The Nervous System, Vol. 2, The Clinical Neurosciences (pp. 457-480). New York: Raven Press.

Reinvang, I. (1985). Approaches to the study of aphasia. In: R.W. Rieber (ed.), Aphasia and Brain Organization, (Chapt. 1, pp. 1-22). New York: Plenum Press.

Plaut, D.C. (1995). Double dissociation without modularity: Evidence from connectionist neuropsychology. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 17, 291-321.
 

 C) SENSORY PHENOMENA AND DOGMAS:
  Brindley, G. S. (1970). Introduction to sensory experiments. In: G. S. Brindley (Ed.), Physiology of the Retina and Visual Pathway (Chapt. 5, pp. 132-138). Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company.

Teller, D. Y. (1984). Linking propositions. Vision Research, 24, 1233-1246.

Barlow, H. B. (1982). General principles: The senses considered as physical instruments. In: H. B. Barlow, and J. D. Mollon (Eds.), The Senses (Chapt. 1, pp. 1-33). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Warrant, E.J. (1999). Seeing better at night: life style, eye design and the optimum strategy of spatial and temporal summation. Vision Research, 39, 1611-1630.

Hurvich, L. M. (1981). Chapt. 1: Classification of visual experience, and Chap. 2: Color experience and the nervous system. In: L. M. Hurvich, Color Vision (pp. 1-25). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates Inc.

Houtsma, A.J.M., Rossing, T.D., and Wagenaars, W.M. (1987). Auditory Demonstrations. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Institute for Perception Research.
 

 D) NEURAL CODING MATTERS:
  Uttal, W. R. (1973). An orientation. In: W. R. Uttal, The Psychobiology of Sensory Coding (Chapt. 1, pp. 1-17). New York: Harper & Row.

Uttal, W. R. (1973). An introduction to the basic concepts of sensory coding. In: W. R. Uttal, The Psychobiology of Sensory Coding (Chapt. 5, pp. 207-231). New York: Harper & Row.

Bullock, T. H. (1967). Signals and neuronal coding. In: G. C. Quarton, T. Melnechuk, and F. O. Schmitt (Eds.), The Neurosciences (pp. 347-352). New York: The Rockefeller University Press.

Wasserman, G.S. (1992). Isomorphism, task dependence, and the multiple meaning theory of neural coding. Biological Signals, 1, 117-142.

Field, D.J. (1994). What is the goal of sensory coding? Neural Computation, 6, 559-601.

Paillard, J. (1983). The functional labeling of neural codes. In: J. Massion, et al. (Eds.) Neural Coding of Motor Performance, (Supp. 7: 1-19), Experimental Brain Research.

Zimmerman, M. (1985). The sensory system in the light of information theory. In: R.F. Schmidt (Ed.), Fundamentals of Sensory Physiology (Section 3.6, pp. 105- 116). Berlin: Springer.

Segundo, J. P. (1970). Communication and coding by nerve cells. In: F. O. Schmitt (Ed.), The Neurosciences, 2nd Ed. (Chapt. 51, pp. 569-586). New York: The Rockefeller University Press.

McClurkin, J.W., Optican, L.M., Richmond, B.J. and Gawne, T.J. (1991) Concurrent processing and complexity of temporally encoded neuronal messages in visual perception. Science, 253, 675-677.

Skottun, B.C. (2000). The magnocellular deficit theory of dyslexia: the evidence from contrast sensitivity. Vision Research, 40, 111-127.
 

 E) ANATOMY IS LIBRARY:
  Vedel, J.P. and Moulins, M. (1978). A motor neuron involved in two centrally generated motor patterns by means of two different spike initiating sites. Brain Research, 138, 347-352.

Meyrand, P., Weimann, J.M., and Marder, E. (1992). Multiple axonal spike initiation zones in a motor neuron: Serotonin activation. Journal of Neuroscience, 12, 2803-2812.

Marder, E., Abbott, L.F., Turrigiano, G.G., Liu, Z., and Golowasch, J. (1996). Memory from the dynamics of intrinsic membrane currents. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 93, 13481-13486.

  F) OSCILLATIONS AND CONSCIOUSNESS; THE INITIAL DISCUSSION:
  Searle, J. R. (1995). The mystery of consciousness. The New York Review of Books, Part I, 2 November: Part II, 16 November: An Exchange, 21 December.

Crick, F. and Koch, C. (1990). Towards a neurobiological theory of consciousness. The Neurosciences, 2, 263-275.

Stryker, M.P. (1989). Is grandmother an oscillation? Nature, 338, 297-298.

Singer, W. and Gray, C.M. (1995). Visual feature integration and the temporal correlation hypothesis. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 18, 555-586.

Phillips, W.A. and Singer, W. (1997). In search of common foundations for cortical computation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 657-722.

Malsburg, C. von der (1995). Binding in models of perception and brain function. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 5, 520-526.

Aertsen, A. and Arndt, M. (1993). Response synchronization in the visual cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 3, 586-594.

König, P. and Engel, A.K. (1995). Correlated firing in sensory-motor systems. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 5, 511-519.

Kirschfeld, K. (1992). Oscillations in the insect brain: Do they correspond to the cortical g-waves of vertebrates? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 89, 4764-4768.

Prechtl, J.P. (1994). Visual motion induces synchronous oscillations in turtle visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 91, 12467-12471.

Braun, H.A., Wissing, H., Schäfer, K., and Hirsch, M.K. (1994). Oscillation and noise determine signal transduction in shark multimodal sensory cells. Nature, 367, 270-273.
 

  G) A NEW INTEREST IN TEMPORAL CODES:
  Neuenschwander, S., Castelo-Branco, M., and Singer, W. (1999). Synchronous oscillations in the cat retina. Vision Research, 39, 2485-2497.

Reinagel, P., and Reid, R.C. (2000). Temporal coding of visual information in the thalamus. J. Neuroscience, 20(14), 5392-5400.

Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., Purpura, K.P., and Victor, J.D. (2000). Interspike intervals, receptive fields, and information encoding in primary visual cortex. J. Neuroscience, 20(5), 1964-1974.

Brecht, M., Singer, W., and Engel, A.K. (1999). Patterns of synchronization in the superior colliculus of anesthetized cats. J. Neuroscience, 19(9), 3567-3579.

Brody, C.D. (1998). Slow covariations in neuronal resting potentials can lead to artefactually fast cross-correlations in their spike trains. J. Neurophysiology, 80, 3345-3351.