Bruce Cumming

July 2011

Publications 

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  1. Tanabe S, Haefner RM, Cumming BG. (2011)Suppressive mechanisms in monkey v1 help to solve the stereo correspondence problem. J Neurosci. 31(22):8295-305.
  2. Nienborg H, Cumming BG. (2009) Decision-related activity in sensory neurons reflects more than a neuron's causal effect. Nature 459:89-92.
  3. Haefner RM, Cumming BG. (2009) An improved estimator of variance explained in the presence of noise. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21: 585-592.
  4. Bredfeldt CE, Read, JCA, Cumming BG. (2009) A quantitative explanation of responses to disparity-defined edges in macaque V2. J. Neurophysiol 101: 701-713.
  5. Tanabe S, Cumming BG. (2008) Mechanisms underlying the transformation of disparity signals from V1 to V2 in the macaque. J Neurosci. Oct 29;28(44):11304-14.
  6. Haefner RM, Cumming BG. (2008) Adaptation to natural binocular disparities in primate V1 explained by a generalized energy model. Neuron 2008 Jan 10;57(1):147-58.
  7. Nienborg H, Cumming BG. (2007) Psychophysically measured task strategy for disparity discrimination is reflected in V2 neurons. Nature Neuroscience 10, 1608 - 1614.
  8. Read JC, Cumming BG. (2007) Sensors for impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem.
    Nat Neurosci. 2007 Oct;10(10):1322-8. Epub Sep 9.
  9. Read JC, Cumming BG. (2006) Does depth perception require vertical-disparity detectors? J Vis. 2006 Nov 20;6(12):1323-55.
  10. Nienborg H, Cumming BG. (2006) Macaque V2 neurons, but not V1 neurons, show choice-related activity.
    J Neurosci. 2006 Sep 13;26(37):9567-78.
  11. Bredfeldt CE, Cumming BG. (2006) A simple account of cyclopean edge responses in macaque v2.
    J Neurosci. 2006 Jul 19;26(29):7581-96.
  12. Read JCA and Cumming BG. (2005) All Pulfrich-like illusions can be explained without joint encoding of motion and disparity. Journal of Vision 2005 Dec 19;5(11):901-27.
  13. Read JCA and Cumming BG. (2005) The stroboscopic Pulfrich effect is not evidence for the joint encoding of motion and depth. Journal of Vision, 5(5): 417-434.
  14. Read JCA and Cumming BG. (2005) The effect of interocular delay on disparity-selective V1 neurons: relationship to stereoacuity and the Pulfrich effect. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94: 1541-1553.
  15. Nienborg, H, Bridge, H, Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG. (2005) Neuronal computation of disparity in V1 limits temporal resolution for detecting disparity modulation. J. Neurosci. 2005 Nov 2;25(44):10207-19.
  16. Read JCA, Cumming BG. (2004) Understanding the cortical specialization for horizontal disparity. Neural Computation 16(10):1983-2020.
  17. Read JCA, Cumming BG. (2003) Ocular dominance predicts neither strength nor class of disparity selectivity with random-dot stimuli in primate V1. J. Neurophysiol.90(5):2795-2817.
  18. Nienborg, H, Bridge, H, Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG. (2004) Receptive field size in V1 neurons limits acuity for perceiving disparity modulation. J Neurosci 24: 2065–2076.
  19. Krug, K, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ. (2004) Comparing perceptual signals of single V5/MT neurons in two binocular depth tasks. J Neurophysiol 92: 1586-96
  20. Read JCA, Cumming BG. (2003) Testing quantitative models of binocular disparity selectivity in primary visual cortex  J Neurophysiol 90: 2795-2817.
  21. Read JCA, Cumming BG. (2003) Measuring V1 receptive fields despite eye movements in awake monkeys. J Neurophysiol 90: 946-960.
  22. Thomas OM, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2002) A specialization for relative disparity in V2. Nature Neuroscience 5(5):472-8.
  23. Parker, AJ, Krug, K and Cumming, BG. (2002) Neuronal activity and its links with perception. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 357: 1053-1062
  24. Read JCA, Parker AJ, Cumming BG. (2002) A simple model accounts for the response of disparity-tuned V1 neurons to anti-correlated images, Visual Neuroscience 19: 735-753 ERRATA
  25. Cumming, BG. (2002) An unexpected specialization for horizontal disparity in primate visual cortex. Nature 418:633-636.
  26. Prince SJD, Pointon AD, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2002) Quantitative analysis of responses of V1 Neurons to Horizontal Disparity in Dynamic Random Dot Stereograms. J Neurophysiol 87:191-208.
  27. Prince SJD, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2002) Range and mechanism of horizontal disparity encoding in macaque V1. J Neurophysiol 87:209-221.
  28. Bridge H, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2001) Modeling V1 neuronal responses to orientation disparity. Visual Neuroscience.
  29. Prince S, Offen S, Cumming BG, Eagle RA. (2001) The integration of orientation information in the motion correspondence problem. Perception 30:367-380.
  30. Dodd JV, Krug K, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2001) Perceptually bistable three-dimensional figures evoke high choice probabilities in cortical area MT. J Neuroscience 21:4809-4821.
  31. Bridge H, Cumming BG. (2001) Responses of Macaque V1 neurons to Binocular Orientation Differences. J Neuroscience 21:7293-7302.
  32. Prince SJD, Pointon AD, Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2000) The Precision of Single Neuron Responses in Cortical Area V1 During Stereoscopic Depth Judgements. J Neuroscience 20:3387-3400.
  33. DeAngelis GC, Cumming BG, Newsome WT. (2000) A new role for cortical area MT: The perception of stereoscopic depth. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences (Gazzaniga M, ed), pp 305-314: MIT Press.
  34. Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (2000) Local Disparity Not Perceived Depth is Signalled by Binocular Neurons in Cortical Area V1 of the Macaque. J Neuroscience 20:4758-4767.
  35. Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (1999) Binocular Neurons in V1 of Awake Monkeys Are Selective for Absolute, not Relative, Disparity. J Neuroscience 19:5602-5618.
  36. DeAngelis GC, Cumming BG, Newsome WT. (1998) A new role for cortical area MT: The perception of stereoscopic depth. Nature 394:677-680.
  37. Cumming BG, Shapiro SE, Parker AJ. (1998) Disparity detection in anticorrelated stereograms. Perception 27:1367-1377.
  38. Cumming BG, Parker AJ. (1997) Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without the perception of depth. Nature 389:280-283.
  39. Bradshaw MF, Cumming BG (1997) The Direction of Retinal Motion Facilitates Binocular Stereopsis. Proc Roy Soc B 264:1421-1427
  40. Cumming BG (1995) The Relationship Between Stereoacuity and Stereomotion Thresholds. Perception 24:105-114.
  41. Johnston EB, Cumming BG, Landy MS (1994) Integration of Stereo and Motion Shape Cues. Vision Res 34:2259-2275.
  42. Cumming BG, Parker AJ (1994) Binocular Mechanisms for detecting Motion-in-depth. Vision Res 34:483-496.
  43. Wolpert DM, Miall RC, Cumming BG, Boniface S (1993) Retinal adaptation of visual processing time delays. Vision Res 33:1421-1430.
  44. Jones GJ, Christou CG, Cumming BG, Parker AJ, Zisserman AP (1993) Accurate rendering of curved shadows and interreflections. Proceedinigs of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 10:337-347.
  45. Johnston EB, Cumming BG, Parker AJ (1993) Integration of Depth Modules: Stereo and Texture. Vision Res 33:813-882.
  46. Cumming BG, Johnston EB, Parker AJ (1993) Effects of different Texture Cues on Curved Surfaces Viewed Stereoscopically. Vision Res 33:827-282.
  47. Parker AJ, Christou CG, Cumming BG, Johnston EB (1992) The analysis of 3-D shape: Psychophysical principles and neural mechanisms. In: Approaches to Understanding Vision (Humphreys GW, ed), pp 143-179. Oxford: Blackwell
  48. Cumming BG, Johnston EB, Parker AJ (1991) Vertical disparities and perception of three-dimensional shape. Nature 349:411-413.
  49. Judge SJ, Cumming BG (1986) Neurons in the monkey midbrain with activity related to vergence eye movement and accommodation. J Neurophysiol 55:915--930.
  50. Cumming BG, Judge SJ (1986) Disparity-induced and blur-induced convergence eye movement and accommodation in the monkey. J Neurophysiol 55:896--914.
  51. Cumming BG, Judge SJ (1984) Neural mechanisms of convergence and accommodation. In: Theoretical and applied aspects of eye movement research. (Gale AG, Johnson F, eds). Amsterdam: North-Holland.

 

Invited reviews and book chapters

  1. Nienborg H, Cumming BG. (2010) Correlations between the activity of sensory neurons and behavior: how much do they tell us about a neuron's causality? Curr Opin Neurobiol 20: 376-81.
  2. Cumming B. (2009) PMF: climbing the disparity gradient for twenty years. Perception 38: 885-7; discussion 892-3.
  3. Bridge H. Cumming BG. (2008) Representation of binocular surfaces by cortical neurons. Curr Opin Neurobiol. Aug;18(4):425-30.
  4. Cumming BG. (2002) Stereopsis: Where Depth is Seen. Current Biology 12:R93-R95.
  5. Parker AJ, Cumming BG. (2001) Cortical Mechanisms of binocular stereoscopic vision. Progress in Brain Research 134:chapter 14.
  6. Cumming BG, DeAngelis GC. (2001) The physiology of stereopsis. Annu Rev Neurosci 24:203-238.
  7. Parker AJ, Cumming BG, Dodd JV (2000) Binocular neurons and the perception of depth. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences (Gazzaniga M, ed), pp 263-278: MIT Press.
  8. Cumming BG. (1998) A sense of direction: going with the flow. Nature Neuroscience 1:6-8.
  9. Cumming BG. (1997) How the Brain sees Depth. Current Biology 7:R645-647.
  10. Parker AJ, Harris JM, Cumming BG, Sumnall JH. (1996) Binocular Correspondence in Stereoscopic Vision. Eye 10.
  11. Cumming BG. (1994) Motion in Depth. In: Visual Detection of Motion (Smith AT, Snowdon RJ, eds), pp 333-366. London: Academic Press.
  12. Parker AJ, Cumming BG, Johnston EB, Hurlbert AC. (1994) Multiple cues for 3-D visual shape. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences (Gazzaniga M, ed), pp 263-277. Cambridge: MIT press.