highlights

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  thesis defense
  
  Computation and representation in the primate visual system. Thesis successfully defended at the Center for Neural Science, New York University, November 15th, 2012.
  
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  V2
  
  Despite decades of work characterizing the first stage of cortical visual processing in the primate, the second visual area still remains a mystery. We have uncovered novel response properties in area V2 using synthetic experimental stimuli based on visual textures found in natural photographic images.
  
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  metamers
  
  Metamers are visual stimuli that are physically different but look the same. They reveal how we have far less access to information in a visual scene than we think we do. We've been using them to understand pattern vision, and how information loss in the visual periphery affects everyday visual tasks.
  
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papers

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Metamers of the ventral stream

Nature Neuroscience

Freeman & Simoncelli

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Orientation decoding depends on maps, not columns

Journal of Neuroscience

Freeman, Brouwer, Heeger, Merriam

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Substitution and pooling in crowding

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Freeman, Chakravarthi, Pelli

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