Principal Investigator
odelia.schwartz [at] einstein.yu.edu
Papers
- Perceptual Organization in the Tilt Illusion. O Schwartz, T J Sejnowski, and P Dayan. Journal of Vision, 2009.
Reprint
- Visuomotor Characterization of Eye Movements in a Drawing Task. R Coen-Cagli , P Coraggio, P Napoletano, O Schwartz, M Ferraro, G Boccignone. Vision Research 49, 810-818, 2009.
Reprint (pdf)
- Space and time in visual context. O Schwartz, A Hsu,
and P Dayan. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 522-535, 2007.
Reprint (pdf)
- Visual adaptation: neural, psychological and computational aspects.
Clifford, C.W.G., Webster M.A., Stanley, G.B., Stocker, A.A., Kohn, A., Sharpee, T.O. & Schwartz, O. Vision Research, 47, 3125-3131 2007.
- Spike-triggered Neural Characterization. O Schwartz, J W Pillow,
N C Rust, and E P Simoncelli. Journal of Vision, 2006.
Reprint (pdf)
- Soft
Mixer Assignment in a Hierarchical Model of Natural Scene Statistics. O Schwartz, T
J Sejnowski, and P Dayan. Neural Computation, 2006.
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- A
Bayesian Framework for Tilt Perception and Confidence. O Schwartz, T
J Sejnowski, and P Dayan. Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems 18, 2006.
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- Spatiotemporal
Elements of Macaque V1 Receptive Fields. N C Rust, O Schwartz, J A Movshon,
and E P Simoncelli. Neuron, 46(6):945-956, June 2005.
Reprint (pdf)
- Assignment
of Multiplicative Mixtures in Natural Images. O Schwartz, T J Sejnowski,
and P Dayan. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17, 2005.
Preprint (242K, pdf)
- Spike
count distributions, factorizability, and contextual effects in area
V1. O Schwartz, J R Movellan, T Wachtler, T D.Albright, and T J Sejnowski. Neurocomputing, Elsevier, 2004.
Preprint (168K, pdf)
- Spike-triggered
characterization of excitatory and suppressive stimulus dimensions in
monkey V1. N C Rust, O Schwartz, J A Movshon and E P Simoncelli. Neurocomputing,
Elsevier, 2004.
Preprint (750K, pdf)
- Characterization
of neural responses with stochastic stimuli. E P Simoncelli and J Pillow
and L Paninski and O Schwartz. In The Cognitive Neurosciences, Ed: M
Gazzaniga, 3rd edition. MIT Press, 2004.
Preprint (1.2M, pdf)
- Characterizing
neural gain control using spike triggered covariance. O Schwartz, E
J Chichilnisky, and E P Simoncelli. Adv. Neural Information Processing
Systems, v14, pp. 269-276, May 2002.
Preprint (544k, pdf
- Natural signal statistics and sensory gain control. O Schwartz and E P Simoncelli. Nature Neuroscience, August 2001.
Reprint (313k, pdf) / Manuscript (718k, ps.gz)
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Natural sound statistics and divisive normalization in the auditory system. O Schwartz and E P Simoncelli. Adv. Neural Information Processing Systems. v13, May 2001.
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- Natural image statistics and divisive normalization: Modeling nonlinearity and adaptation in cortical neurons. M J Wainwright, O Schwartz, and E P Simoncelli. In Probabilistic Models of the Brain: Perception and Neural Function. eds. R Rao, B Olshausen, and M Lewicki. MIT Press. Spring, 2002.
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- Modeling Surround Suppression in V1 Neurons with a Statistically-Derived Normalization Model. E P Simoncelli and O Schwartz. Adv. Neural Information Processing Systems. v11, May 1999.
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- Modeling the Precedence Effect For Speech Using the Gamma Filter. O. Schwartz, J.G. Harris, and J.C. Principe. Neural Networks, 12(3):409-417, 1999.
- O. Schwartz, J G Harris, and J C Principe. Modeling the precedence effect for speech signals. In Computational Neuroscience Trends in Research, Volume 4, Pages 819-826, 1998.
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Selected Invited Talks
- Canonical Neural Computation Workshop, Florence, Italy, 2009.
- Gordon Research Conference, Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, Lucca, Italy, 2008.
- New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2007.
- Columbia University, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, New York, 2007.
- Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop, Vancouver, 2007.
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, 2006.
- Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Berkeley, 2006.
- Adaptation: neural, psychological, and computational aspects workshop. Cosyne, The Canyons, Utah, 2006.
- Cognitive Science Colloquium, UCSD, 2006.
- CIAR Neural Computation and Active Perception workshop, Vancouver, BC, 2005.
- Overcomplete representations workshop. Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, 2004.
- Interneurons and cortical function: a fair and balanced workshop. Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, BC, 2004.
- Hebrew University, Computer Science, Israel, 2004.
- Cortical models and psychophysics workshop. CNS*2003, Alicante, Spain, 2003.
- Brain and Mind Institute, Lausanne, 2003.
- Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, UK, 2001.
- Sloan-Swartz meeting, Lake Tahoe, CA, 2001.
- NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, 2001.
- Sloan meeting, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, 1999.
Awards
- Sloan Research Fellowship, 2008.
- Travel award, Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005.
- Travel grant, Gordon Research Conference on Sensory Coding, Oxford, UK, 2004.
- Outstanding student paper award, Neural Information Processing Systems conference, 2001.
Professional Activities
- Panelist: NIH and NSF panel, 2009.
- Co-organizer: Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2009 workshop,
Snowbird Utah, "The role of spatial context in biological and computational vision” (with Ruben Coen Cagli).
- Session chair: Gordon research conference on Sensory Coding of the Natural
Environment, 2008.
- Session chair: Neural Information Processing Systems, 2007.
- Program committee area chair in Neuroscience: Neural Information
Processing Systems, 2007.
- Co-organizer: Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2006 workshop,
Snowbird Utah, "Adaptation: neural, psychological, and computational aspects” (with Colin Clifford and Peter Dayan).