Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael J. Morgan (London)

“Monocular and binocular processing of texture in V1”

Nota bene:
There will be an opportunity for doctoral candidates to meet with Michael Morgan on Friday, 3 April, 10.00–11.00. If you intend to attend this meeting, please prepare for it with the help of the publications listed below!
Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Luisenstraße 56, Room 144, 10117 Berlin References:
-- Morgan, M., Chubb, C. & Solomon, J. A. (2008) A "dipper" function for texture discrimination based on orientation variance. Journal of Vision, 8(11):9, 1-8.
-- Solomon, J. A., John, A. & Morgan, M. J. (2006) Monocular texture segmentation and proto-rivalry. Vision Research, 46, 1488-1492
-- Parkes, L., Lund, J., Angelucci, A., Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (2001) Compulsory averaging of crowded orientation signals in human vision. Nature Neuroscience, 4, 739-744.
-- Solomon, J. A. & Morgan, M. J. (1999) Dichoptically cancelled motion. Vision Research, 39, 2293-2297
-- Morgan, M. J., Mason, A. J. S. & Solomon, J. A. (1997) "Blindsight" in normal Subjects? Nature, 385, 401-402 Abstract for talk:
The elementary processes of texture description based on first and second-order statistics of the visual image will be described, followed by an analysis of the contribution of monocular and binocular processing. Some monocularly visible textures are invisible in the binocular image, but it will be argued (against Crick and Koch) that this is uninformative about the contribution of V1 to conscious perception. Michael J. Morgan  is Professor of Visual Psychophysics and leader of the Visual Perception and Psychophysics stream at City University London.


All are welcome!

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