Jason M. Samonds, PhD

 

Publications

 

 

Abstracts

 

Allison JD, Smith KR, Atherton ME, Samonds JM, Bonds AB. Temporal frequency tuning of cross orientation inhibition in the striate cortex of cats. [ARVO abstr] Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 2000. (abstract) (poster) (related article) (Bonds 1989)

Brown HA, Allison JD, Samonds JM, Bonds AB. Nonlocal origin of response supression from stimulation outside the Classic Receptive Field in Area 17 of the cat. [VSS abstr] J Vision 1(3):200a, 2001. (abstract)

Brown HA, Allison JD, Samonds JM, Bonds AB. Area 18 contribution to spatial integration of receptive fields of area 17 cells in the cat. [VSS abstr] J Vision 2(7):582a, 2002. (abstract)

Samonds JM, Allison JD, Brown HA, Bonds AB. Spike train analysis reveals cooperation between Area 17 neuron pairs that enhances fine discrimination of orientation. [VSS abstr] J Vision 2(7):196a, 2002. (poster) (abstract)

 

Bonds AB, Samonds JM, Allison JD. Spike train analysis reveals cooperation between Area 17 neuron pairs that enhances fine discrimination of orientation. Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, 2002. (slide show) (abstract)

Brown HA, Allison JD, Samonds JM, Thomas AM, Bonds AB. Characterization of area 18 modulation from stimulation outside the receptive field of area 17 cells in the cat. [VSS abstr] J Vision 3(9):373a, 2003. (abstract)

Samonds JM, Allison JD, Brown HA, Bonds AB. Cooperative Synchronized Assemblies and Orientation Discrimination. [VSS abstr] J Vision 3(9):152a, 2003. (slide show) (abstract)

 

Brown HA, Samonds JM, Bonds AB. Area 18 contributes to contrast adaptation of Area 17 cells in the cat. [VSS abstr] J Vision 4(8):224a, 2004. (abstract) (Bonds 1991)

 

Samonds JM, Brown HA, Bonds AB. Relationships between the spatiotemporal spike train structure and cortical synchronization. [VSS abstr] J Vision 4(8):17a, 2004. (slide show) (abstract)

 

Samonds JM, Bonds AB. Quantitative analysis of cooperation and structure in the cat striate cortex.  Workshop on Coding of Visual Information in the Brain, Isle of Skye, Scotland (in press), 2004. (abstract) (paper)

 

Zhou Z, Samonds JM, Bernard MR, Bonds AB.  Synchronous activity in cat visual cortex encodes collinear and cocircular contours. [VSS abstr] J Vision 5(8):675a, 2005. (poster) (abstract)

 

Bernard MR, Samonds JM, Zhou Z, Bonds AB.  An integration model of detection and quantification of synchronous firing within cell groups. [VSS abstr] J Vision 5(8):676a, 2005. (poster) (abstract)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz B, Lee TS. Cooperative processing of spatially distributed disparity signals in macaque V1. [VSS abstr] J Vision 6(6):831a, 2006. (slide show) (abstract)

 

Potetz BR, Samonds JM, Lee TS. Disparity and luminance preference are correlated in macaque V1, matching natural scene statistics. [Soc Neurosci abstr] (in press), 2006. (slide show) (abstract)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz BR, Lee TS. Evidence of cooperative and competitive mechanisms for stereo computation in macaque V1. [Soc Neurosci abstr] (in press), 2006. (poster) (abstract)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz BR, Lee TS. Neurophysiological Evidence of Cooperative Mechanisms for Stereo Computation. [NIPS] (in press), 2006. (poster)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz BR, Lee TS. Evidence of cooperative and competitive mechanisms for stereo computation in macaque V1. OIST Workshop on Cognitive Neurobiology, Onna Village, Okinawa, Japan, 2007. (poster) (abstract)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz BR, Lee TS. Implications of neuronal interactions on disparity tuning in V1. [Soc Neurosci abstr], 2007. (poster) (abstract)

 

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Brown HA, Allison JD, Samonds JM, Bonds AB. Nonlocal origin of response suppression outside of the classical receptive field in Area 17 of the cat.
Vis Neurosci 20(1):85-96, 2003. (pdf)

Samonds JM, Allison JD, Brown HA, Bonds AB. Cooperation between Area 17 neuron pairs enhances fine discrimination of orientation. J Neurosci 23(6):2416-2425, 2003. (pdf) (review)

 

Samonds JM, Allison JD, Brown HA, Bonds AB. Cooperative synchronized assemblies enhance orientation discrimination. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA 101(17):6722-6727, 2004. (pdf)

 

Samonds JM and Bonds AB. From another angle: Differences in cortical coding between fine and coarse discrimination of orientation. J Neurophysiol, 91(3):1193-1202, 2004. (pdf)

 

Samonds JM and Bonds AB. Real-time visualization of neural synchrony for identifying coordinated cell assemblies. J Neurosci Meth 139(1):51-60, 2004. (pdf) (link)

 

Samonds JM and Bonds AB. Gamma oscillation maintains stimulus structure-dependent synchronization in cat visual cortex. J Neurophysiol 93(1):223-236, 2005. (pdf)

 

Samonds JM, Zhou Z, Bernard MR, Bonds AB. Synchronous activity in cat visual cortex encodes collinear and cocircular contours. J Neurophysiol 95(4):2602-2616, 2006. (pdf) (supplemental material) (review)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz BR, Lee TS. Neurophysiological Evidence of Cooperative Mechanisms for Stereo Computation. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19, MIT Press, 2007. (pdf)

 

Samonds JM, Potetz BR, Lee TS. Cooperative and competitive interactions facilitate stereo computations in macaque primary visual cortex. (under review) 2008.

 

Reviews and Commentary

 

Samonds JM and Bonds AB. Cooperative and temporally structured information in the visual cortex. Signal Processing 85(11):2124-2136, 2005. (pdf)

 

Samonds JM.  Feature configuration modulates effective connectivity. J Neurosci 26(14):3621-3623, 2006. (pdf)

 

Kelly RC, Smith MA, Samonds JM, Kohn A, Bonds AB, Movshon JA, Lee TS. Comparison of recordings from microelectrode arrays and single electrodes in visual cortex. J Neurosci 27(2):261-264, 2007. (pdf) (cover)