Dale Purves, Professor and Chairman edit
Office Location: 101I Bryan Res Bldg
Email Address: 
Web Page: http://neurobiology.mc.duke.edu/faculty/purves/
Education:
M.D., Harvard University, 1964
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- NEUROBIO 257.01, Visual perception
- LSRC B240, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- "Howe Q, Purves D (2004) Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of scene geometry. J Cog Neurosci 16(1): 90-102.." ().
- "Purves D, Lotto RB (2004) The Cornsweet effect. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd edition. G. Adelman and B.H. Smith, eds. Elsevier Press 2004.." ().
- "Schwartz D, Purves D (2004) Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. Hearing Research 194: 31-46.." ().
- Z Yang, D Purves. "A statistical explanation of visual space.." Nature neuroscience, United States 6.6 (June, 2003): 632-40. [abs]
- "Long, F. and D. Purves (2003) Natural scene statistics as the universal basis for color context effects. Proc Natl Acad Sci 100 (25): 15190-15193.." ().
- "Purves, D. and R.B. Lotto (2003) Why We See What We Do: An Empirical Theory of Vision. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.." ().
- "Schwartz, D., C.Q. Howe and D. Purves (2003) Statistical evidence that musical universals derive from the acoustical characteristics of human speech. J. Neurosci. 23: 7160-7168.." ().
- "Purves, D., R.B. Lotto, S.M. Williams, S. Nundy and Z.Yang (2001) Why we see things the way we do: Evidence for a wholly empirical strategy of vision. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, 356: 285-297.." ().
- "Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (2000) An empirical explanation of color contrast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 12834-12839.." ().
- "Nundy, S., B. Lotto, D. Coppola, A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2000) Why are angles misperceived? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 5592-5597.." ().
- "Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (1999) The effects of color on brightness. Nature Neurosci. 2: 1010-1014.." ().
- "Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999) Mach bands as empirically derived associations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5245-5250.." ().
- "Purves, D., A. Shimpi and R.B. Lotto (1999) An empirical explanation of the Cornsweet effect. J. Neurosci. 19: 8542-8551.." ().
- "Williams, S.M., A.N. McCoy and D. Purves (1998) An empirical explanation of brightness. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95: 13301-13306.." ().
- "White, L.E., T. J. Andrews, C. Hulette, A. Richards, M. Groelle, J. Paydarfar and D. Purves (1997) Structure of the Human Sensorimotor System II. Lateral symmetry. Cereb Cortex 7:31-47.." ().
- "Purves, D. (1994) Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.." ().