[vslist] Feature issue of JOSA A in memory of Russell L. De Valois

[Michael A. Webster]

Feature Announcement

Visual Coding

A feature issue on Visual Coding is planned for the Journal of the Optical
Society of America A. The issue will commemorate the life and work of
Russell L. De Valois, who passed away following a car accident in
September, 2003. De Valois is widely recognized as one of the most
important and influential vision scientists of the 20th century. His
diverse experimental studies in physiology, anatomy, and psychophysics led
to fundamental insights into the processes mediating color and form
perception in the primate visual system. A common theme throughout his
career was the goal of accounting for the psychology of perception in
terms of the underlying behavior of neurons. The goal of the feature issue
is to draw on this theme, by bringing together research from a variety of
different perspectives that address current problems in visual coding, and
that bridge psychophysics and physiology by seeking to understand the
neural bases of perceptual phenomena, and the perceptual consequences of
neural processes. The feature issue will include an invited review by
Peter Lennie and Anthony Movshon of New York University. Original research
articles related to the theme of visual coding are invited on a range of
topics including but not limited to:

Psychophysical characterization of visual mechanisms
Physiological bases of color, form and motion perception
Functional anatomy of visual pathways
Comparative vision
Models of perceptual processes

The deadline for submissions is November 2004 for an expected publication
date of August, 2005.

Feature Editors:

Michael A. Webster
Department of Psychology
University of Nevada, Reno

Duane G. Albrecht
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Austin



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