Date

Topics

Suggested Readings / Presentations (These will be updated on-line weekly)

Jan 6

Course Introductions

Reference frames, coordinate systems, kinematics of translation and rotation.

Geometric Foundations

Jan 13

Organization of the Visual System

MA Goodale, AD Milner Separate visual pathways for perception and action, Trends in neurosciences 15(1), 20-25, 1992 (J. Miller)

de Haan EH, Cowey A. On the usefulness of 'what' and 'where' pathways in vision. Trends Cogn Sci. 2011 Oct; 15(10): 460-6

Motor Systems: Gaze, Reach and Grasp

Human parietal cortex in action. Culham JC, Valyear KF. (Meaghan)

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2006 Apr; 16(2): 205-12. Epub 2006 Mar 24. Review.

Imaging the premotor areas. Picard N, Strick PL. (Mani)

Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2001 Dec;11(6):663-72. Review

Anatomical organization of the eye fields in the human and non-human primate frontal cortex. Amiez C, Petrides M.

Prog Neurobiol. 2009 Oct; 89(2):220-30. Epub 2009 Aug 7. Review.

VESIA M, CRAWFORD JD (2012) Specialization of Reach function in Human Posterior Parietal Cortex. Experimental Brain Research 221(1):1-18.

Curtis CE (2006)

Prefrontal and parietal contributions to spatial working memory.

Neuroscience 139(1):173-80. (Jasleen)

LUCK SJ, VOGEL EK (2013)

Visual working memory capacity: from psychophysics and neurobiology to individual differences

Trends Cogn Sci 17(8):391-400. (Noora)

Feb 3

Spatial Coding visual direction (egocentric, allocentric, extrapolation)

Fiehler, K., Wolf, C., Klinghammer, M., & Blohm, G. (2014).

Integration of egocentric and allocentric information during memory-guided reaching to images of a natural environment.

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, 636.

Chen, Y., Monaco, S., Byrne, P., Yan,  X., Henriques, D. Y., & Crawford, J. D. (2014).

Allocentric versus egocentric representation of remembered reach targets in human cortex.

Journal of Neuroscience, 34(37), 12515-12526.

Uchimura, M., Nakano, T., Morito, Y., Ando, H., & Kitazawa, S. (2015). Automatic representation of a visual stimulus relative to a background in the right precuneus.

Eur J Neurosci, 42(1), 1651-1659.

Dessing JC, Vesia M, Crawford JD. (2013)

The role of areas MT+/V5 and SPOC in spatial and temporal control of manual interception: an rTMS study.

Front Behav Neurosci. 2013 Mar 5;7:15. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00015. eCollection 2013. (Harbandhan)

Feb 10

Updating Egocentric visual direction: behaviour and neural mechanism.

The updating of the representation of visual space in parietal cortex by intended eye movements.
Duhamel JR, Colby CL, Goldberg ME.
Science. 1992 Jan 3;255(5040):90-2.

(Eitan)

Gaze-centered remapping of remembered visual space in an open-loop pointing task.
Henriques DY, Klier EM, Smith MA, Lowy D, Crawford JD.
J Neurosci. 1998 Feb18(4):1583-94.

Gaze-centered updating of visual space in human parietal cortex.
Medendorp WP, Goltz HC, Vilis T, Crawford JD.
J Neurosci. 2003 Jul16;23(15):6209-14.

(Wai)

Trans-saccadic perception.

Melcher D, Colby CL.

Trends Cogn Sci. 2008 Dec 12(12) 466-73.

(Dan)

Cortical mechanisms for trans-saccadic memory and integration of multiple objects features.

Prime SL, Vesia M, Crawford JD.

Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 Feb 27;366(1564):540-53

(Noora)

Role of early visual cortex in trans-saccidic memory of object features.

Malik P, Dessing JC, Crawford JD.

J Vision 2015 Aug 1;15(11):7 (Jasleen)

Visual-Motor transformations within frontal eye fields during head-unrestrained gaze shifts in the monkey.

Sajad A, Sadeh M, Keith GP, Yan X, Wang H, Crawford JD.

Cereb Cortex. 2015 Oct;25(10):3932-52

Human posterior parietal cortex encodes the movement goal in a pro-/anti-reach task.

Gertz H, Fiehler K.

J Neurophysiol 2015 Jul;114(1):170-83.

Human parietal "reach region" primarily encodes intrinsic visual direction, not extrinsic movement direction, in a visual motor dissociation task.
Fernandez-Ruiz J, Goltz HC, DeSouza JF, Vilis T, Crawford JD.
Cereb Cortex. 2007 Oct;17(10):2283-92. Epub 2007 Jan 10. (Sorina)

Mar 9

Caculating Movement Direction and Distance.

Flexible strategies for sensory integration during motor planning.

Sober SJ, Sabes PN.
Nat Neurosci. 2005 Apr;8(4):490-7. Epub 2005 Mar 27. (J. Miller)

Direct visuomotor transformations for reaching.
Buneo CA, Jarvis MR, Batista AP, Andersen RA. Nature. 2002 Apr 11;416(6881):632-6. (Kaili-Larissa)

Dorsal premotor neurons encode the relative position of the hand, eye and goal during reach planning

Pesaran B, Nelson MJ, Andersen RA. Neuron 2006 Jul 6;51(1):125-34

(Harbandhan)

Mar 16

Reference Frame transformations: Behaviour

Reference Frame transformations: neural mechanisms

Human oculomotor system accounts for 3-D eye orientation in the visual-motor transformation for saccades.
Klier EM, Crawford JD.
J Neurophysiol. 1998 Nov;80(5):2274-94.

(Wai)

Computations for geometrically accurate visually guided reaching in 3-D space.
Blohm G, Crawford JD.
J Vis. 2007 May 4;7(5):4.1-22.

(Dan)

The superior colliculus encodes gaze commands in retinal coordinates.
Klier EM, Wang H, Crawford JD.
Nat Neurosci. 2001 Jun;4(6):627-32.

(Eitan)

Mar 30

Review or Make-up