Silver Professor; Professor of Neural Science, Psychology
Ph.D. 1975, Cambridge University.

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Research Interests:

Neurophysiology and psychophysics of vision and visual development, computational approaches to vision and neuroscience.

Affiliations:

Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, NYU School of Medicine; Society for Neuroscience; Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; American Psychological Society; American Physiological Society.

Fellowships/Honors:

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993; Herman and Margaret Sokol Faculty Award, 1993; Rank Prize for Optoelectronics, 1992; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 1991-2003; Senior International Fellowship, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 1985-1986; Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, 1985; NIH Research Career Development Award, 1980-1985; Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, 1975-1979.

Selected Works:

Processing of first- and second-order motion signals by neurons in area MT of the macaque monkey, with L. P. O'Keefe. Visual Neurosci., 15. 1998. 305-317.
Linearity and normalization in simple cells of the macaque primary visual cortex, with M. Carandini and D. J. Heeger. J. Neurosci., 17. 1997. 8621-8644.
Amblyopia: a developmental disorder of the central visual pathways, with L. Kiorpes. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology LXI. 1996. 39-48.
A computational analysis of the relationship between neuronal and behavioral responses to visual motion, with Shadlen, M. N., K. H. Britten and W. T. Newsome. J. Neurosci., 16. 1996. 1486-1510.
Computational Models of Visual Processing, Landy, M. S. and J. A. Movshon, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1991.
The analysis of moving visual patterns, with E. H. Adelson, M. S. Gizzi, and W. T. Newsome. In Pattern Recognition Mechanisms, ed. C. Chagas, R. Gattass and C. Gross. Pontificiae Academiae Scientiarum Scripta Varia, 54. 1985. 117-151. Rome: Vatican Press. Reprinted in Experimental Brain Research, Supplementum, 11. 1986. 117-151; and in Frontiers of Cognitive Neuroscience, ed. S. M. Kosslyn and R. A. Andersen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1992.

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