Koch, Tsuchiya, Gilroy and Blake on continuous flash suppression

Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Christof Koch, Lee A. Gilroy, and Randolph Blake (2006) Depth of interocular suppression associated with continuous flash suppression, flash suppression, and binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 6 (10): 1068-1078, 2006. CaltechAUTHORS

Christof Koch et al study the extent higher order statistics affect human attention in natural stimuli

Wolfgang Einhauser, Ueli Rutishauser, E. Paxon Frady, Swantje Nadler, Peter Konig, and Christof Koch (2006) The relation of phase noise and luminance contrast to overt attention in complex visual stimuli. Journal of Vision, 6 (11): 1148-1158, 2006. CaltechAUTHORS

Ryota Kanai and colleagues examine how the brain estimates time

Ryota Kanai, Chris L.E. Paffen, Hinze Hogendoorn, and Frans A.J. Verstraten (2006) Time dilation in dynamic visual display. Journal of Vision, 6 (12): 1421-1430, 2006. CaltechAUTHORS

Shimojo et al report on phenomenon of discrete color filling

Ryota Kanai, Daw-An Wu, Frans A.J. Verstraten, and Shinsuke Shimojo (2006) Discrete color filling beyond luminance gaps along perceptual surfaces. Journal of Vision, 6(12): 1380-1395, 2006. CaltechAUTHORS

Wilken and Ma on visual short-term memory

Patrick Wilken and Wei Ji Ma (2004) A detection theory account of change detection. Journal of Vision, 4 (12): 1120-1135, 2004. CaltechAUTHORS

Koch, Reddy, and Wilken discover evidence against the notion that only low-level representations can be accessed outside the focus of attention

Leila Reddy, Patrick Wilken, and Christof Koch (2004) Face-gender discrimination is possible in the near-absence of attention. Journal of Vision, 4 (2): 106-117, 2004. CaltechAUTHORS

Koch and Van Rullen study neural mechanisms of attention competition and representational capacity at different levels of the human visual system

Rufin Van Rullen and Christof Koch (2003) Competition and selection during visual processing of natural scenes and objects. Journal of Vision, 3 (1): 75-85, 2003. CaltechAUTHORS

Edo Berger wins 2007 Trumpler Award for Caltech thesis

The award is given annually by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific to a recent recipient of the Phd degree in North America whose research is considered unusually important to astronomy. Edo Berger (2004) Cosmic explosions: The beasts and their lair. CaltechETD

Colin Camerer and colleagues investigate presence of experiential and fictive learning signals in real-world learning tasks

Terry Lohrenz, Kevin McCabe, Colin F. Camerer, and P. Read Montague (2007) Neural signature of fictive learning signals in a sequential investment task. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104 (22): 9493-9498, 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Yang, Yaqoob, Cui, and McDowell present novel generalized model for analysis of noise with known spectral density

Emily J. McDowell, Xiquan Cui, Zahid Yaqoob, and Changhuei Yang (2007) A generalized noise variance analysis model and its application to the characterization of 1/f noise. Optics Express, 15 (7): 3833-3848, 2007. CaltechAUTHORS

Jagan Srinivasan et al on enhancing C. elegans with machine learning technology

Gunnar Rätsch, Sören Sonnenburg, Jagan Srinivasan, Hanh Witte, Klaus-R Müller, Ralf-J Sommer, and Bernhard Schölkopf (2007) Improving the Caenorhabditis elegans genome annotation using machine learning. PLoS Computational Biology, 3(2): 313-322, February 2007. CaltechAUTHORS