David J. Heeger

Stabilization of recurrent neural networks through divisive normalization

This paper shows that divisive normalization can stabilize recurrent neural networks with strong recurrent connections, preventing instability through critical slowing down.

Attention induced perceptual traveling waves in binocular rivalry

The paper investigates perceptual traveling waves in binocular rivalry, finding that attention modulates their propagation and duration.

Hierarchical Neural Circuit Theory of Normalization and Inter-areal Communication

This paper develops a hierarchical neural circuit theory that explains normalization and inter-areal communication through feedback connections and validates it with simulations and spectral analysis.

Traveling Waves in the Human Visual Cortex: an MEG-EEG Model-Based Approach

This paper develops a model-based approach to detect traveling waves in human visual cortex using MEG-EEG, showing improved accuracy when modeling stimulus-induced traveling waves.

Anticipatory and evoked visual cortical dynamics of voluntary temporal attention

This study investigates how voluntary temporal attention modulates visual cortical responses using SSVER and MEG, finding both pre-target and post-target mechanisms.

Assessment of Human Expertise in First-Person Shooter Games

This study assesses human expertise in first-person shooter games by analyzing motor acuity and kinematics in professional players during target-shooting tasks.

A unified model of the task-evoked pupil response

This paper challenges the linear model of task-evoked pupil response and proposes an alternative model based on shared neural inputs driving saccades and pupil size, showing better alignment with behavioral and physiological predictions.

Task-related hemodynamic responses in human early visual cortex are modulated by task difficulty and behavioral performance

Long-term Motor Learning in the Wild with High Volume Video Game Data

The paper studies motor skill acquisition using video game data from 7174 participants over months, finding that motor acuity improves significantly with practice, unlike typical lab-based studies.

An image-computable model on how endogenous and exogenous attention differentially alter visual perception

The paper develops a computational model that differentiates the effects of endogenous and exogenous attention on visual perception, explaining three previously unexplained phenomena.

A dynamic normalization model of temporal attention

The paper develops a dynamic normalization model of visual temporal attention and shows that voluntary attention improves perceptual sensitivity only within a specific time interval range.

Heading Perception Depends on Time-Varying Evolution of Optic Flow

This paper tests the hypothesis that heading perception during rotation relies on instantaneous optic flow by introducing a novel stimulus and showing that time-varying optic flow is necessary for accurate heading judgments.

Differential impact of endogenous and exogenous attention on activity in human visual cortex

This study compares how endogenous and exogenous attention affect visual cortex activity during an orientation discrimination task, finding distinct modulation patterns in different brain regions.

Uncharacteristic task-evoked pupillary responses implicate atypical locus coeruleus activity in autism

This study finds that individuals with ASD show atypical pupillary responses to distractor stimuli, suggesting altered locus coeruleus activity during attentional tasks.

Dynamic Normalization

The paper introduces a family of recurrent circuit models that explain normalization and dynamics in V1 neural activity, recapitulating experimental observations.

Changes in perilesional V1 underlie training-induced recovery in cortically-blind patients

This study shows that training-induced recovery in cortically-blind patients is linked to changes in perilesional V1 activity and receptive field enlargement.

Position-theta-phase model of hippocampal place cell activity applied to quantification of running speed modulation of firing rate

The paper introduces a position-theta-phase model to analyze how running speed modulates place cell firing rates in rats, finding no overall speed modulation but identifying gain control in some cells.

ORGaNICs: A Canonical Neural Circuit Computation

The paper proposes a neural circuit theory called ORGaNICs to explain working memory and motor control by integrating information maintenance and manipulation through dynamic activity patterns.

Stimulus vignetting and orientation selectivity in human visual cortex

This study shows that research on orientation selectivity in visual cortex may have measured sensitivity to luminance changes instead, using computational models and fMRI experiments.

A non-invasive, quantitative study of broadband spectral responses in human visual cortex

This paper develops a denoising method for MEG to quantify broadband spectral responses in human visual cortex, showing they correlate with spike rates and can be reliably measured non-invasively.