Vision: From Photon to Perception
Organized by John Dowling, Lubert Stryer, and Torsten Wiesel
May 20-22, 1995
Irvine, CA
Organized by John Dowling, Lubert Stryer (Chair) and Torsten Wiesel
Opening Lecture
David Hubel, Harvard Medical School
Session One: From Photon to Nerve Signal
Lubert Stryer, Stanford University, Chair
How Photons Start Vision
Denis Baylor, Stanford University
Theme and Variation: Invertebrate and Vertebrate Phototransduction
Charles Zuker, University of California, San Diego
Molecular Genetics of Color Vision
Jeremy Nathans, Johns Hopkins University
Session Two: Development and Circuitry
John Dowling, Harvard University, Chair
Determination of Retinal Cell Fate
Constance Cepko, Harvard University
Emergence of Order in Visual System Development
Carla J. Shatz, University of California, Berkeley
Retinal Circuitry of Color Vision
Dennis Dacey, University of Washington
The Language of the Retina
Markus Meister, Harvard University
Session Three: Representation and Perception
Francis Crick, Salk Institute, Chair
Dynamic Properties of the Adult Visual Cortex
Charles D. Gilbert, Rockefeller University
Motion Perception: Seeing and Deciding
William Newsome, Stanford University
Visual Surface Representation
Ken Nakayama, Harvard University
Workshops
Chair: Marc Chabre, CNRS Institut, Nice, France Amplification in Vision
Chair: Anthony Movshon, New York University Computational Models of Visual Processing
Closing Lecture
Torsten Wiesel, Rockefeller University
