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Publications of Dale Purves     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

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Papers Published

  1. Lotto RB, Purves D (2005) Understanding the basis of color perception. International Review of Neurobiology (In press). (2005).
  2. Purves, D.,  S.M. Williams, S. Nundy and B.B. Lotto (2003) Perceiving the Intensity of Light.  Psychological Rev. Vol 111: 142-158. (2004).
  3. Howe Q, Purves D (2004) Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of scene geometry. J Cog Neurosci 16(1): 90-102. (2004).
  4. Purves D, Lotto RB (2004) The Cornsweet effect. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd edition. G. Adelman and B.H. Smith, eds. Elsevier Press 2004. (2004).
  5. Lotto RB, Purves D (2004) Perceiving color. Color Dyers Rev (in press). (2004).
  6. Yang Z, Purves D (2004) The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity. Proc Natl Acad Sci 101: 8745-8750 (2004).
  7. Schwartz D, Purves D (2004) Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. Hearing Research 194: 31-46. (2004).
  8. Z Yang, D Purves, A statistical explanation of visual space., Nature neuroscience, United States, vol. 6 no. 6 (June, 2003), pp. 632-40 [abs].
  9. Yang, Z. and D. Purves (2003) Image/source statistics in natural scenes. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 14 (3): 371-390. (2003).
  10. 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. (2003).
  11. 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. (2003).
  12. Purves,  D. and R.B. Lotto (2003) Why We See What We Do:  An Empirical Theory  of Vision. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA. (2003).
  13. RB Lotto, D Purves, The empirical basis of color perception., Consciousness and cognition, United States, vol. 11 no. 4 (December, 2002), pp. 609-29 [abs].
  14. S Nundy, D Purves, A probabilistic explanation of brightness scaling., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, United States, vol. 99 no. 22 (October, 2002), pp. 14482-7 [abs].
  15. CQ Howe, D Purves, Range image statistics can explain the anomalous perception of length., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, United States, vol. 99 no. 20 (October, 2002), pp. 13184-8 [abs].
  16. RB Lotto, D Purves, A rationale for the structure of color space., Trends in neurosciences, England, vol. 25 no. 2 (February, 2002), pp. 84-8 [abs].
  17. Lotto, R.B and D. Purves (2002) An empirical explanation of the Chubb Illusion. J. Cog. Neurosci. 13: 1-9. (2002).
  18. Purves D., R. B. Lotto and S. Nundy (2002) Why we see what we do.  American Scientist 90(3): 236-243. (2002).
  19. Z Yang, A Shimpi, D Purves, Perception of objects that are translating and rotating., Perception, England, vol. 31 no. 8 (2002), pp. 925-42 [abs].
  20. D Purves, Viktor Hamburger 1900-2001., Nature neuroscience, United States, vol. 4 no. 8 (August, 2001), pp. 777-8.
  21. 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. (2001).
  22. Yang, Z., A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2001) A wholly empirical explanation of perceived motion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 9: 5252-5257. (2001).
  23. Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (2000) An empirical explanation of color contrast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 12834-12839. (2000).
  24. Purves, D., B. Lotto and T. Polger (2000) Color vision and the four-color-map problem. J. Cog. Neurosci. 12: 233-237. (2000).
  25. Nundy, S., B. Lotto, D. Coppola, A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2000) Why are angles misperceived? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 5592-5597. (2000).
  26. Purves, D., G.A. Augustine, D. Fitzpatrick, L.C. Katz, A.-S. LaMantia and J.O. McNamara (2000) Neuroscience, 2nd edition. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA. (2000).
  27. Purves, D., S.M. Williams and R.B. Lotto (2000) The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development. In: Evolutionary Developmental Biology of the Cerebral Cortex (Novartis Foundation Symposium Series, G.R. Bock and G. Cardew, eds.) John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 228, pp. 240-258. (2000).
  28. Purves, D., A. Shimpi and R.B. Lotto (1999) An empirical explanation of the Cornsweet effect. J. Neurosci. 19: 8542-8551. (1999).
  29. Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (1999) The effects of color on brightness. Nature Neurosci. 2: 1010-1014. (1999).
  30. Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999) Mach bands as empirically derived associations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5245-5250. (1999).
  31. Halpern, S.D., T.J. Andrews and D. Purves (1999) Interindividual variation in human visual performance. J. Cog. Neurosci. 11: 521-534. (1999).
  32. Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999a) An empirical basis for Mach bands. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5239-5244. (1999).
  33. Williams, S.M.,  A.N. McCoy and D. Purves (1998) The influence of depicted illumination on perceived brightness.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 95: 13296-13300. (1998).
  34. Williams, S.M., A.N. McCoy and D. Purves (1998) An empirical explanation of brightness. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95: 13301-13306. (1998).
  35. Coppola, D.M, L.E. White, D. Fitzpatrick and D. Purves (1998)  Unequal representation of cardinal and oblique contours in ferret visual cortex.  Proc Natl Acad Sci  95: 2621-2623. (1998).
  36. Coppola, D.M.,  H.R. Purves, A.N .McCoy and D. Purves (1998)  The distribution of oriented contours in the real world.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 95: 4002-4006. (1998).
  37. 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. (1997).
  38. Purves, D. and T. J.  Andrews (1997)  The perception of transparent 3-dimensional objects.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 94: 6517-6522. (1997).
  39. Andrews T.J., and D. Purves  (1997)  Similarities in normal and binocularly rivalrous viewing.  Proc Natl Acad Sci  94: 9905-9908. (1997).
  40. White L.E., T. J. Andrews, C. Hulette, A. Richards, M. Groelle, J. Paydarfar and D.  Purves  (1997)  Structure of the human sensorimotor system I.  Morphology and cytoarchitecture of the central sulcus.  Cereb Cortex 7:18-30. (1997).
  41. Andrews T.J., S. D. Halpern and D. Purves (1997)  Correlated size variations in human visual cortex, lateral geniculate nucleus and optic tract.  J Neurosci 17: 2859-2868. (1997).
  42. Andrews, T.J., L.E. White, D. Binder and  D. Purves (1996)  Temporal events in cyclopean vision.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 3689-3692. (1996).
  43. Purves, D., L.E. White  and D.R. Riddle (1996)  Is neural development Darwinian?  Trends Neurosci 19: 460-464. (1996).
  44. Purves, D., J.E. Paydarfar and  T.J. Andrews (1996)  The wagon wheel illusion in movies and reality.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 3693-3697. (1996).
  45. Coppola, D. and D. Purves  (1996)  The extraordinarily rapid disappearance of entoptic images.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 8001-8004. (1996).
  46. Purves D., L. White, D. Zheng, T. Andrews and D. Riddle  (1996)  Brain size, behavior and the allocation of neural space.  In:  The Lifespan Development of Individuals:  Behavioral, Neurobiological, and Psychosocial Perspectives, (Magnusson D, ed).  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, Chapter 8, pp. 162-178. (1996).
  47. Riddle, D.R. and  D. Purves (1995)  Individual variation and lateral asymmetry of the rat primary somatosensory cortex.  J. Neurosci. 15: 4184-4195. (1995).
  48. Zheng, D. and D. Purves  (1995)  The effects of increased neural activity on brain growth.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92: 1802-1806. (1995).
  49. Purves, D. (1995) Race plus IQ does not equal science. Nature 374: 10. (1995).
  50. White, L.E., T.J.Andrews,  C. Hulette, A. Richards,  M. Groelle, J. Paydarfar and  D. Purves (1995)  Structural symmetry of the human sensorimotor system.  Cerebral Cortex (submitted). (1995).
  51. White, L., G. Lucas, A. Richards and  D. Purves (1994) Cerebral asymmetry and handedness.  Nature 368: 197-198. (1994).
  52. Purves, D. (1994) Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (1994).
  53. Purves, D.,  L. White and T. Andrews  (1994)  Manual asymmetry and handedness.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 91: 5030-5032. (1994).
  54. Purves, D.,  D.Riddle,  L. White and  G. Gutierrez (1994) Neural activity and the development of the somatic sensory system.  Curr Opin Neurobiol 4: 120-123. (1994).
  55. Purves, D. and L. E. White (1994) Monocular preferences in binocular viewing.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 91: 8339-8342. (1994).
  56. Riddle, D.R., G. Gutierrez, D. Zheng, L. White, A. Richards and D. Purves (1993) Differential metabolic and electrical activity in the somatic sensory cortex of juvenile and adult rats. J. Neurosci. 13: 4193-4213. (1993).
  57. LaMantia, A-S., S. Pomeroy and D. Purves (1992) Vital imaging of glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb. J. Neurosci. 12: 976-988. (1992).
  58. Purves, D., W.D. Snider and J.T. Voyvodic (1988) Trophic regulation of nerve cell morphology and innervation in the autonomic nervous system. Nature 336: 123-128. (1988).
  59. Purves, D., R.D. Hadley and J. Voyvodic (1986) Dynamic changes in the dendritic geometry of individual neurons visualized over periods of up to three months in the superior cervical ganglion of living mice. J. Neurosci. 6: 1051-1060. (1986).
  60. Purves, D. and J.W. Lichtman (1985) Geometrical differences among homologous neurons in mammals. Science 228: 298-302. (1985).