Neuronal Dynamics of Vision: Perception, Attention & Consciousness

rufin.vanrullen.lab

Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles
Book Chapters
Conference Proceedings

Latinus, M., VanRullen, R. & Taylor, M.J. (2010). Top-down and bottom-up modulation in processing bimodal face/voice stimuli.  BMC Neuroscience, 11:36.

Reddy, L., Kanwisher, N.G. & VanRullen, R. (2009). Attention and biased competition in multi-voxel object representations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106(50), 21447-21452. [Supp. Data]

Wu, C-T., Busch, N.A., Fabre-Thorpe,M. & VanRullen, R. (2009). The temporal interplay between conscious and unconscious perceptual streams. Current Biology 19(23), 2003-2007. [Supp. Data] [Demo]

Busch, N.A., Dubois, J. & VanRullen, R. (2009). The phase of ongoing EEG oscillations predicts visual perception. Journal of Neuroscience 29(24), 7869-7876. [Supp. Data]

Dubois, J., Hamker, F., & VanRullen, R. (2009). Attentional selection of non-contiguous locations: the spotlight is only transiently split.  Journal of Vision, 9(5):3, 1-11.

VanRullen, R. (2009). Binding hardwired vs. on-demand feature conjunctions. Visual Cognition, 17(1-2), 103-119 .

Honey, C., Kirchner, H., & VanRullen, R. (2008). Faces in the cloud: Fourier power spectrum biases ultra-rapid face detection. Journal of Vision, 8(12):9, 1-13.

VanRullen R, Pascual-Leone A, Battelli L (2008). The Continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion and the ‘When’ Pathway of the Right Parietal Lobe: A Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study. PLoS ONE 3(8): e2911.

VanRullen, R., Carlson, T. & Cavanagh, P. (2007). The blinking spotlight of attention. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 104(49), 19204-19209.

VanRullen, R. (2007). The power of the feed-forward sweep. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 3(1-2), 167-176.

VanRullen, R. (2007). The continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion depends on, but is not identical to neuronal adaptation. Vision Research, 47(16), 2143-2149.

Reddy, L. & VanRullen, R. (2007). Spacing affects some but not all visual searches: implications for theories of attention and crowding. Journal of Vision, 7(2):3, 1-17.

VanRullen, R. (2006). The continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion is object-based. Vision Research, 46(24), 4091-4095.

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Koch, C. (2006). The continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion is associated with changes in EEG power around 13Hz. Journal of Neuroscience 26, 502-507.

VanRullen, R. (2006). On second glance: still no high-level pop-out effect for faces. Vision Research, 46(18), 3017-3027. (see latest reply)

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Fei-Fei, L. (2005). Binding is a local problem for natural objects and scenes. Vision Research, 45(25-26), 3133-3144.

Guyonneau, R. VanRullen, R. & Thorpe S.J. (2005). Neurons tune to the earliest spikes through STDP. Neural Computation, 17, 859-879.

Fei-Fei, L. VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2005). Why does natural scene categorization require little attention? Exploring attentional requirements for natural and synthetic stimuli. Visual Cognition, 12(6), 893-924.

Andrews, T.J., Purves, D., Simpson, W. & VanRullen, R. (2005). The wheels keep turning: Reply to Holcombe et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(12), 560-561.

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Koch, C. (2005). Attention-driven discrete sampling of motion perception. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA ,102(14), 5291-5296.

VanRullen, R., Guyonneau, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (2005). Spike times make sense. Trends in Neurosciences 28(1).

Guyonneau, R. VanRullen, R. & Thorpe S.J. (2004). Temporal codes and sparse representations: a key to understanding rapid processing in the visual system. Journal of Physiology (Paris) 98(4-6), 487-497.

VanRullen, R. (2004). A simple translation in cortical log-coordinates may account for the pattern of saccadic localization errors. Biological Cybernetics 91, 131-137.

Thorpe, S.J., Guyonneau, R., Guilbaud, N., Allegraud, J-M. & VanRullen, R. (2004). SpikeNet: real-time visual processing with one spike per neuron. Neurocomputing, 58-60, 857-864.

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L., & Koch, C. (2004). Visual search and dual-tasks reveal two distinct attentional resources. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16(1), 4-14.

VanRullen, R. & Dong, T. (2003). Attention and scintillation. Vision Research 43(21) pp 2191-2196.

VanRullen, R. (2003). Visual Saliency and spike timing in the ventral visual pathway. Journal of Physiology (Paris) 97, 365-377.

VanRullen, R. & Koch, C. (2003). Is perception discrete or continuous? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7(5), 207-213.

VanRullen, R. & Koch, C. (2003). Visual selective behavior can be triggered by a feed-forward process. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 15(2), 209-217.

VanRullen, R. & Koch, C. (2003). Competition and selection during visual processing of natural scenes and objects. Journal of Vision 3(1),  75-85.

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (2002). Surfing a spike wave down the ventral stream. Vision Research 42(23), pp 2593-2615.

Li, F-F., VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2002). Natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99(14), 9596-9601.

Thorpe, S.J., Delorme, A. & VanRullen, R. (2001). Spike-based strategies for rapid processing. Neural Networks 14, 715-725.

VanRullen, R., Delorme, A. & Thorpe, S.J. (2001). Feed-forward contour integration in primary visual cortex based on asynchronous spike propagation. Neurocomputing 38-40(1-4), 1003-1009.

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (2001). Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Ultra-Rapid Visual Categorisation of natural and artifactual objects. Perception 30(6), 655-668.

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (2001). The time course of visual processing: from early perception to decision making. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 13(4), 454-461.

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (2001). Rate coding vs Temporal Order coding: what the retinal ganglion cells tell the visual cortex. Neural Computation 13(6), 1255-1283.

Thorpe, S. J., Delorme, A., VanRullen, R. & Paquier, W. (2000). Reverse engineering of the visual system using networks of spiking neurons. Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, IEEE press. IV: 405-408.

 

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (1999). Spatial attention in asynchronous neural networks. NeuroComputing , 26-27, 911-918.

Delorme, A., Gautrais, J., VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S. (1999). SpikeNET: a simulator for modeling large networks of integrate and fire neurons. NeuroComputing, 26-27, 989-996.

VanRullen, R., Gautrais, J., Delorme, A. & Thorpe, S. (1998). Face processing using one spike per neurone. BioSystems, 48(1-3), 229-239.

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Koch, C. (2010). A motion illusion revealing the temporally discrete nature of awareness, to appear in "Space and Time in Perception and Action". Ed: R. Nijhawan.

VanRullen, R. & L. Reddy (2008). Visages et attention. In "Traitement et reconnaissance des visages: du percept à la personne" E. J. Barbeau, S. Joubert and O. Felician. Marseille, Solal: 377-391.

Reddy, L. & R. VanRullen (2008). Le codage neuronal des visages. In "Traitement et reconnaissance des visages: du percept à la personne" E. J. Barbeau, S. Joubert and O. Felician. Marseille, Solal: 367-375.

Cavanagh, P. & VanRullen, R. (2007). La résolution de l’attention : la précision spatiale et temporelle de la conscience visuelle. In “Neuroscience cognitive de l'attention visuelle”. Ed: G. A. Michael. Marseille: Solal.

VanRullen, R. (2005). Visual saliency and spike timing in the ventral visual pathway, in "The Neurobiology of Attention". Eds: L. Itti, G. Rees & J. Tsotsos.

VanRullen, R. & Koch, C. (2005). Visual attention and visual awareness, in "Handbook of Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol V: Disorders of Visual Processing". Ed: G. Celesia, pp 65-83.

VanRullen, R. (2004). Perception, décision, attention visuelles: ce que les potentiels évoqués nous apprennent sur le fonctionnement du systeme visuel, In "L'imagerie fonctionnelle électrique et magnetique: ses applications en sciences cognitives" pp 95-121. Ed: B. Renault. Paris: Hermes.

VanRullen, R. (2010). Is perception periodic --and if so, with what sampling rate? Invited Presentation, Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting, Champery (Switzerland).

 

Macdonald, J. S.P., Reddy, L. & VanRullen, R. (2009). Dynamic visual stimuli reveal perceptual echoes at 10Hz. Society For Neuroscience meeting (Chicago, IL, USA).

 

Miconi, T. & VanRullen, R. (2009). Spiking neurons, lateral connections and background oscillations give rise to perceptual cycles. Society For Neuroscience meeting (Chicago, IL, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2009). Is perception discrete or continuous? Invited presentation. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting, Berlin, (Germany).

 

Dubois, J. & VanRullen, R. (2009). Evaluating the contribution of discrete perceptual mechanisms to psychometric performance, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting, Berlin (Germany).

 

Wu, C-T., Busch, N., Fabre-Thorpe, M. & VanRullen, R. (2009). Comparing the updating of conscious and unconscious perceptual streams: a new temporal illusion. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting, Berlin (Germany).

 

Reddy, L., VanRullen, R. & Kanwisher, N. (2009). Attention and biased competition in multi-voxel object representations, Proceedings of the 9th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples (Florida, USA).

 

Busch, N., Dubois, J. & VanRullen, R. (2009). The phase of ongoing EEG oscillations predicts visual perception, Proceedings of the 9th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples (Florida, USA)

 

Macdonald, J.S.P. & VanRullen, R. (2009). More wheels makes attention spin slower. Proceedings of the 9th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples (Florida, USA).

 

Wu, C-T., Busch, N., Fabre-Thorpe, M. & VanRullen, R. (2009). When an effect precedes its cause in consciousness. Proceedings of the 9th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples (Florida, USA).

 

Vanrullen, R., Reddy, L., Rémy, F., Vayssière, N., Pascual-Leone, A. & Battelli, L. (2008). The neural correlates of the continuous wagon wheel illusion. Society For Neuroscience meeting (Washington, DC, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., Pascual-Leone, A. & Battelli, L. (2008). The continuous wagon wheel illusion and the 'WHEN' pathway of the right parietal lobe: a repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation study. European Conference on Visual Perception (Utrecht, Netherlands).

 

Reddy, L., Remy, F., Vayssiere, N. & Vanrullen, R. (2008). Neural correlates of the continuous wagon wheel illusion: a functional MRI study. European Conference on Visual Perception (Utrecht, Netherlands).

 

VanRullen, R. (2008). Attention in multi-element displays: does it split, does it switch or does it blink? Invited presentation, 2nd International Symposium on Visual Search and Selective Attention, Fribourg (Switzerland).

 

Wilimzig, C., VanRullen, R., & Koch, C. (2008). A new masking technique for natural scenes reveals the saliency of an image. Proceedings of the 8th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., Carlson, T. & Cavanagh, P. (2007). The blinking spotlight of attention. European Conference on Visual Perception (Arezzo, Italy).

 

Carlson, T., VanRullen, R., Hogendoorn, H., Verstraten, F., & Cavanagh, P. (2007). Distinguishing models of multifocal attention: It's a matter of time . Proceedings of the 7th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., Carlson, T., & Cavanagh, P. (2007). Dividing attention between multiple targets: simultaneous or sequential allocation?  Proceedings of the 7th Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2007). Dividing attention between multiple locations: continuous or discrete? Invited presentation, 2nd International Symposium on Visual Attention, Buenos Aires (Argentina).

 

VanRullen, R. (2006). The continuous Wagon Wheel Illusion: low-level and higher-level properties. Society for Neuroscience meeting, Atlanta (GA, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2006). The power of the feed-forward sweep. Invited presentation, Visual Masking and the Dynamics of Vision and Consciousness, Delmenhorst (Germany).

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Koch, C. (2005). Discrete subsampling of motion perception: electrophysiological correlates. Society for Neuroscience meeting, Washington (DC, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2005). Vision at a glance: parallel and preattentive perception of natural scenes. Invited presentation, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Montreal (Canada).

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Koch, C. (2005). The temporal structure of visual perception: insights from an illusion of reversed motion. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting, Pasadena, (CA, USA).

 

Koch, C., VanRullen, R. & Reddy, C. (2005). Attention-dependent discrete sampling of motion perception. Invited presentation. Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting, Pasadena, (CA, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2005). Attention-dependent discrete sampling of motion perception. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2005). Vision at a glance: parallel and preattentive perception of natural scenes. Invited presentation, Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, New York (NY, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L. & Koch, C. (2004). The continuous wagon wheel illusion: evidence for discrete processing in the visual system? Society for Neuroscience Meeting, San Diego (California, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2004). What's in the first shot? Parallel and preattentive processes in visual scene perception. Invited presentation, European Conference on Visual Perception (Budapest, Hungary).

 

VanRullen, R. (2004). Binding "hardwired" vs "arbitrary" features. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. (2003). Trial-by-trial variations of visual reaction time: relation with the phase of ongoing and evoked EEG. Society for Neuroscience Meeting, New Orleans (Louisiana, USA).

 

VanRullen, R. & Dong, T. (2003). Attention and scintillation. European Conference on Visual Perception (Paris, France).

 

Thorpe, S., Guyonneau, R., Guilbaud, N. & VanRullen, R. (2003). SpikeNet: Real-time visual processing with one spike per neuron. Proceedings of the Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (Alicante, Spain).

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L., Li, F-F., Perona, P. & Koch, C. (2003). A neural framework for visual search and attention. Munich Visual Search Symposium (Munich, Germany).

 

VanRullen, R., Reddy, L., Li, F-F., Perona, P. & Koch, C. (2003). A neural framework for visual search and attention. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

Reddy, L., VanRullen, R. & Koch, C. (2003). Interstimulus distance effects in visual search. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

Li, F-F., VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2003). Natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention: further explorations. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

Li, F-F., VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2002). Rapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention. Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, Gordon Research Conference, Mount Holyoke (MA, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., & Koch, C. (2002). Competition and selection during visual processing of natural scenes and objects. Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, Gordon Research Conference, Mount Holyoke (MA, USA).

 

Li, F-F., VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2002). Rapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

Reddy, L., VanRullen, R. & Koch, C. (2002). Parallel and preattentive processing are not equivalent. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

Hamker, F., & VanRullen, R. (2002). The time course of attentional selection among competing locations. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., & Koch, C. (2002). Visual selective behavior can be triggered by a feed-forward process. Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco (California, USA).

 

Li, F-F., VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2002). Rapid natural scene categorization requires little or no attention. Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting, San Francisco (California, USA).

 

Li, F-F., VanRullen, R., Koch, C. & Perona, P. (2001). Rapid natural scene categorization without attention. Society for Neuroscience meeting, San Diego (California, USA).

 

Thorpe, S., VanRullen, R., Delorme, A. & Gautrais, J. (2001). Oscillations and rank-order coding. European Conference on Visual Perception (Kusadasi, Turkey).

 

VanRullen, R., & Koch, C. (2001). On the processing capacity of the human visual system. Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota (Florida, USA).

 

VanRullen, R., Delorme, A. & Thorpe, S.J. (2000). Feed-forward contour integration in primary visual cortex based on asynchronous spike propagation. Proceedings of the 9th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Brugges (Belgium).

 

Delorme, A., VanRullen,R. & Thorpe, S. (2000). Object recognition using spiking neurons I: . Paper presented at the symposium "Neural binding of space and time". Leipzig, Germany.

 

VanRullen, R., Delorme, A., et Thorpe, S. (2000). Object recognition using spiking neurons II: Spatial attention explained by temporal precedence of information. Paper presented at the symposium "Neural binding of space and time". Leipzig, Germany.

 

Delorme, A., Van Rullen, R., & Thorpe, S.J. (1999). Rapid object recognition based on asynchronous feed-forward processing. 22th European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste (Italy). Perception, 28 (suppl.), pp. 128-129.

 

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (1998), Ultra-Rapid Visual Categorization of Natural Scenes: Order of Spiking in Ganglion Cells as a code. 21st European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford (UK). Perception, 27 (suppl.).

 

VanRullen, R. & Thorpe, S.J. (1998). Spatial attention in asynchronous neural networks. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Santa Barbara (California, USA).

 

Delorme, A., Gautrais, J., VanRullen, R., & Thorpe, S.J. (1998). SpikeNET: A simulator for modeling large networks of integrate and fire neurons. Proceedings of the 7th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Santa Barbara (California, USA).

 

Thorpe, S.J., VanRullen, R., Delorme, A., & Gautrais, J. (1998). Ultra-rapid visual categorisation:large-scale simulations using SpikeNET. 21th European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford (UK). Perception, 27 (suppl.), pp. 150.

 

Thorpe, S., Gautrais, J., VanRullen, R., & Delorme, A. (1998). A model for rapid visual object recognition based on asynchronous spike propagation and rank order coding. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 1998 Annual Meeting Abstract program, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (suppl.), pp. 19.