Bruce G. Cumming

The paper shows that neural responses in the visual system shift from optimizing information preservation to optimizing perceptual discrimination, driven by changes in tuning curve preferences for binocular disparity.

The paper links complex encoding models of V1 neurons to classical measures of selectivity, revealing new insights into spatial frequency tuning and cell classification.

The paper investigates MT neuron responses in macaques to 1D and 2D noise patterns, proposing new classification measures for pattern and component cells.

The paper tests whether linear-nonlinear models can explain V1 neuron responses to natural and unnatural stimuli, finding they fail to capture strong responses to binocularly correlated stimuli.

The paper shows that mixed-polarity stimuli in disparity discrimination tasks outperform same-polarity stimuli due to a stimulus artefact, not because of separate ON and OFF channels in stereopsis.

The paper shows that task-related feedback changes spike-count correlations in V1 neurons, indicating feedback dynamics shape correlated variability rather than shared afferents.

The paper shows that invisible noise can impair motion detection in insects but not mammals due to differences in early visual processing.