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Button by Colleen Nelson

Dan Rooney had quite a year. A great judge of talent.

This Teenie Harris photo is wonderful on its own, but also reminds me of Joe Lazear's similar shop in Braddock. Not to mention my father's store in Washington. Thanks to Willi Halfter for this!

These pages contain my Eric Dolphy and Booker Little discographies, Captain Beefheart magic, some jazz items, Central African Republic stuff, and even some Science:

• Effects of adapting on spatiotemporal receptive field structure in striate cortical simple cells

• Modeling the development of direction selectivity - associating poorly correlated inputs

• Development of response timing in the lateral geniculate nucleus

• Measuring timing in terms of phase, rather than latency (872 K pdf)

• Timing in alert macaque LGN (1.4 MB pdf)

  Some of this Neuroscience 2006 presentation was subsequently published below. The main point of the talk was that magnocellular LGN has a diversity of timing. This has been recognized by many authors (e.g., Kaplan & Shapley, 1982), but too often ignored. This was also the first report that lagged cells exist in monkey LGN.
  

  
  

  Some articles in pdf form:

  Saul, AB. (2008) Lagged cells in alert monkey lateral geniculate nucleus. Vis. Neurosci. 25:647-659.

  Saul, AB. (2008) Lagged cells. Neurosignals 16:209-225.

  Saul, AB. (2008) Temporal receptive field estimation using wavelets. J. Neurosci. Meth. 168:450-464.

  Tang, Y., A. Saul, M. Gur, S. Goei, E. Wong, B. Ersoy, D.M. Snodderly (2007) Eye position compensation improves estimates of response magnitude and receptive field geometry in alert monkeys. J. Neurophysiol. 97:3439-3448.
  

  Saul, A.B., P.L Carras, and A.L. Humphrey (2005) Temporal properties of inputs to direction selective neurons in monkey V1. J. Neurophysiol. 94:282-294.

  Saul, A.B. and J.C. Feidler (2002) Development of response timing and direction selectivity in cat visual thalamus and cortex. J. Neuroscience. 22:2945-2955.

  Saul, A.B. (1999) Visual cortical simple cells: who inhibits whom. Visual Neurosci. 16:667-673.

  Humphrey, A.L. and A.B. Saul (1998) Strobe rearing reduces direction selectivity in area 17 by altering spatiotemporal receptive-field structure. J. Neurophysiol. 80:2991-3004.

  Humphrey, A.L., A.B. Saul, and J.C. Feidler (1998) Strobe rearing prevents the convergence of inputs with different response timings onto area 17 simple cells. J. Neurophysiol. 80:3005-3020.

  Murthy, A., A.L. Humphrey, A.B. Saul, and J.C. Feidler (1998) Laminar differences in the spatiotemporal structure of simple cell receptive fields in cat area 17. Visual Neurosci. 15:239-256.

  and old scanned papers as large pdfs

  Saul, A.B. (1995) Adaptation aftereffects in single neurons of cat visual cortex: response timing is retarded by adapting. Visual Neurosci. 12:191-205.

  Saul, A.B. and A.L. Humphrey (1990) Spatial and temporal response properties of lagged and nonlagged cells in cat lateral geniculate nucleus. J. Neurophysiol. 64:206-224.

  Saul, A.B. and M.S. Cynader (1989) Adaptation in single units in visual cortex: the tuning of aftereffects in the spatial domain. Vis Neurosci. 2:593-607.

  Saul, A.B. and M.S. Cynader (1989) Adaptation in single units in visual cortex: the tuning of aftereffects in the temporal domain. Vis Neurosci. 2:609-620.

Captain Beefheart	Booker Little	Eric Dolphy	Jazz

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Alan Saul
Dept. of Ophthalmology
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta GA 30912

Date created: 1994
Last modified: 4 April 2009
Maintained by: Alan Saul