The breadth and complexity of natural behaviors inspires awe. Understanding how our
perceptions, actions, and internal thoughts arise from evolved circuits in the brain has …

We can claim that we know what the visual system does once we can predict neural
responses to arbitrary stimuli, including those seen in nature. In the early visual system …

To understand how the brain processes sensory information to guide behavior, we must
know how stimulus representations are transformed throughout the visual cortex. Here we …

There is no generally accepted account of the function of the second visual cortical area
(V2), partly because no simple response properties robustly distinguish V2 neurons from …

Aims and Scope This book is both an introductory textbook and a research monograph on
modeling the statistical structure of natural images. In very simple terms,“natural images” are …

Abstract System identification is a growing approach to sensory neurophysiology that
facilitates the development of quantitative functional models of sensory processing. This …

Identical sensory inputs can be perceived as markedly different when embedded in distinct
contexts. Neural responses to simple stimuli are also modulated by context, but the …

During natural vision, the entire visual field is stimulated by images rich in spatiotemporal
structure. Although many visual system studies restrict stimuli to the classical receptive field …

The human superior temporal gyrus (STG) is critical for speech perception, yet the
organization of spectrotemporal processing of speech within the STG is not well understood …

An ultimate goal of systems neuroscience is to understand how sensory stimuli encountered
in the natural environment are processed by neural circuits. Achieving this goal requires …