MEGISMERÉSTUDOMÁNYI ÓRÁK SZEGEDEN
2001 TAVASZ

PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT

registration:
Kovacs
Kaldy

Ilona Kovacs, March 13-14

March 13:

Introduction to modularity of vision: parallel pathways and hierarchical levels of processing

Lennie P. Single Units and Visual Cortical Organization. Perception 1998, 27(7) 889-936 [full text in pdf] [Perception]

Development of local visual functions

D.Y. Teller: Spatial and temporal aspects of infant color vision.Vision Res. 1998 Nov;38(21):3275-82. Review. pdf
Thomasson MA, Teller DY: Infant color vision: sharp chromatic edges are not required for chromatic discrimination in 4-month-olds. Vision Res. 2000;40(9):1051-7. pdf
Allen D, Tyler CW, Norcia AM Development of grating acuity and contrast sensitivity in the central and peripheral visual field of the human infant. Vision Res. 1996 Jul;36(13):1945-53. pdf
Dobkins KR, Teller DY nfant contrast detectors are selective for direction of motion. Vision Res. 1996 Jan;36(2):281-94. pdf

March 14:

Development of integrative visual functions

I. Kovacs, P. Kozma, A. Feher and G. Benedek: Late maturation of visual spatial integration in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999 Oct 12;96(21):12204-9. full text in pdf | PubMed | PNAS online
I. Kovács: Human development of perceptual organization. Vision Res 2000;40(10-12):1301-10. full text in pdf | PubMed | Science Direct
I. Kovács, U. Polat, A. M. Norcia, P. M. Pennefather and A. Chandna: A new test of contour integration deficits in patients with a history of disrupted binocular experience during visual development. Vision Res 2000;40(13):1775-83 full text in pdf | PubMed | Science Direct

Development of parallel visual pathways

Thompson PM, Giedd JN, Woods RP, MacDonald D, Evans AC, Toga AW. Growth patterns in the developing brain detected by using continuum mechanical tensor maps. Nature 2000 Mar 9;404(6774):190-3 full text in pdf [PubMed]
Ursula Bellugi, Liz Lichtenberger, Wendy Jones, Zona Lai and Marie St. George. The Neurocognitive Profile of Williams Syndrome: A Complex Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses. full text in pdf
Albert M. Galaburda and Ursula Bellugi. Multi-Level Analysis of Cortical Neuroanatomy in Williams Syndrome. full text in pdf
Gross C.G. Neurogenesis in the adult brain. full text in pdf

Requirements:

Each student will be expected to turn in a 5 to 10 pages essay by March 26 (either in Hungarian or in English). The essay will focus on issues of brain development and modularity of visual processing. Specific topics will be announced later.

last updated: March 9, 2001

Zsuzsanna Kaldy, March 26-28

The development of object perception in preverbal children
The new nativism: Spelke, Ballargean, Carey
The development of visual attention and working memory: neurophysiological and behavioral investigations

Spelke, E. S. (1994): Initial knowledge: Six suggestions. Cognition. 50,431-445
Wilcox, T. (1999) Object individuation: Infants' use of shape, size,pattern, and color. Cognition. 72, 125-166. full text in pdf
Aguiar, A., & Baillargeon, R. (1999) 2.5-month-old infants' reasoning about when objects should and should not be occluded. Cognitive Psychology. 39, 116-157. full text in pdf
Diamond, A. (1991) Frontal lobe involvement in cognitive changes during the first year of life. In: Gibson, K. R., & Petersen, A. C. (Eds) Brain maturation and cognitive development: Comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. Foundations of human behavior. (pp. 127-180). New York, NY, USA: Aldine De Gruyter.
Leslie, A.M., Xu, F., Tremoulet, P., & Scholl, B. (1998). Indexing and the object concept: Developing 'what' and 'where' systems. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 10-18. full text in pdf