Computational Theories and their Implementation in the Brain
The legacy of David Marr
Edited by Lucia M. Vaina and Richard E. Passingham
Author Information
Edited by Lucia M. Vaina, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and co-Director of the Neurology of Vision Laboratory, Neuroscience and Neurology, Boston University; and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, and Richard E. Passingham, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK
Professor Lucia M. Vaina received an MS in mathematics from University of Timisoara and Pavia, PhD in mathematical logic from the Sorbonne and MD PhD (neuroscience) from the University of Toulouse. Her postdoctoral training was at UC Berkeley, Stanford and MIT. She joined the faculty of Boston University and Harvard Medical School in 1986 and in 1995 she was promoted to tenured Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She is among the first visual neuroscientists that studied the effects of lesions on visual motion perception in humans, by using psychophysics, biologically constrained computational modeling, and MRI, fMRI and MEG. She characterized the cortical mechanisms underlying visual motion tasks, and alternate mechanisms used by motion impaired patients. She studied psychophysically&computationally aspects of perceptual learning of motion discrimination and used fMRI to elucidate their neural substrate
Professor Richard E. Passingham received his BA from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of London. He returned to Oxford in 1970 and was made a University Lecturer and Fellow of Wadham College in 1976. He was amongst the first to use brain imaging to study human cognition, starting in 1988 at the MRC Cyclotron Unit at the Hammersmith Hospital where he was an Honorary Senior Lecturer. In 1996 he moved to the newly founded Wellcome Centre for NeuroImaging at the University of London where he was an Honorary Principal. He was made Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford in 1997.
Contributors:
Professor Suzanna Becker - Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour and Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Science, McMaster University, Canada
Professor Egidio D'Angelo - Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia and Brain Connectivity Center, IRCCS Mondino Neurological Institute, Pavia, Italy
Professor Peter Dayan - Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College, London
Professor Paul Dean - Department of Psychology, Sheffield University
Professor Rodney Douglas - Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Michael Hasselmo - Director, Center for Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Center for Memory and Brain, Graduate Program for Neuroscience, Boston University
Dr Takeru Honda - Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Motor Disorders Project and RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Professor Masao Ito - Special Advisor to the RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Professor Kevan Martin - Institute of Neuroinformatics, Neurosciences Center, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Professor Richard E. Passingham - Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford (retired)
Professor John Porrill - Department of Robotics, University of Sheffield
Professor Alessandro Treves - SISSA, Cognitive Neuroscience, Trieste, Italy and NTNU, Centre for Neural Computation, Trondheim, Norway
Professor Lucia M. Vaina - Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neuroscience and Neurology, Boston; and Department of Neurology and Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Professor David Willshaw - Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
