Dale Purves, George B. Geller Professor of Neurobiology and Psychological & Brain Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

George B. Geller Professor of Neurobiology and Psychological & Brain Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
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Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Lotto RB, Purves D (2005) Understanding the basis of color perception. International Review of Neurobiology (In press)..
  2. Howe Q, Purves D (2004) Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of scene geometry. J Cog Neurosci 16(1): 90-102..
  3. Purves D, Lotto RB (2004) The Cornsweet effect. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd edition. G. Adelman and B.H. Smith, eds. Elsevier Press 2004..
  4. Lotto RB, Purves D (2004) Perceiving color. Color Dyers Rev (in press)..
  5. Purves, D.,  S.M. Williams, S. Nundy and B.B. Lotto (2003) Perceiving the Intensity of Light.  Psychological Rev. Vol 111: 142-158..
  6. Schwartz D, Purves D (2004) Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. Hearing Research 194: 31-46..
  7. Yang Z, Purves D (2004) The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity. Proc Natl Acad Sci 101: 8745-8750.
  8. Z Yang, D Purves (2003). A statistical explanation of visual space.. Nature neuroscience, United States, 6(6), 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..
  10. 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..
  11. Purves,  D. and R.B. Lotto (2003) Why We See What We Do:  An Empirical Theory  of Vision. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA..
  12. Lotto, R.B and D. Purves (2002) An empirical explanation of the Chubb Illusion. J. Cog. Neurosci. 13: 1-9..
  13. 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..
  14. Purves D., R. B. Lotto and S. Nundy (2002) Why we see what we do.  American Scientist 90(3): 236-243..
  15. 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..
  16. Yang, Z., A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2001) A wholly empirical explanation of perceived motion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 9: 5252-5257..
  17. Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (2000) An empirical explanation of color contrast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 12834-12839..
  18. Purves, D., B. Lotto and T. Polger (2000) Color vision and the four-color-map problem. J. Cog. Neurosci. 12: 233-237..
  19. Nundy, S., B. Lotto, D. Coppola, A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2000) Why are angles misperceived? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 5592-5597..
  20. 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..
  21. 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..
  22. Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (1999) The effects of color on brightness. Nature Neurosci. 2: 1010-1014..
  23. Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999) Mach bands as empirically derived associations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5245-5250..
  24. Halpern, S.D., T.J. Andrews and D. Purves (1999) Interindividual variation in human visual performance. J. Cog. Neurosci. 11: 521-534..
  25. Purves, D., A. Shimpi and R.B. Lotto (1999) An empirical explanation of the Cornsweet effect. J. Neurosci. 19: 8542-8551..
  26. Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999a) An empirical basis for Mach bands. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5239-5244..
  27. Williams, S.M., A.N. McCoy and D. Purves (1998) An empirical explanation of brightness. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 95: 13301-13306..
  28. 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..
  29. 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..
  30. 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..
  31. 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..
  32. Purves, D. (1994) Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press..
  33. Andrews T.J., and D. Purves  (1997)  Similarities in normal and binocularly rivalrous viewing.  Proc Natl Acad Sci  94: 9905-9908..
  34. 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..
  35. Purves, D. and T. J.  Andrews (1997)  The perception of transparent 3-dimensional objects.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 94: 6517-6522..
  36. 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..
  37. Andrews, T.J., L.E. White, D. Binder and  D. Purves (1996)  Temporal events in cyclopean vision.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 3689-3692..
  38. Coppola, D. and D. Purves  (1996)  The extraordinarily rapid disappearance of entoptic images.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 8001-8004..
  39. 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..
  40. 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..
  41. Purves, D., L.E. White  and D.R. Riddle (1996)  Is neural development Darwinian?  Trends Neurosci 19: 460-464..
  42. Purves, D. (1995) Race plus IQ does not equal science. Nature 374: 10..
  43. Riddle, D.R. and  D. Purves (1995)  Individual variation and lateral asymmetry of the rat primary somatosensory cortex.  J. Neurosci. 15: 4184-4195..
  44. 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)..
  45. Zheng, D. and D. Purves  (1995)  The effects of increased neural activity on brain growth.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92: 1802-1806..
  46. Purves, D. and L. E. White (1994) Monocular preferences in binocular viewing.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 91: 8339-8342..
  47. 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..
  48. Purves, D.,  L. White and T. Andrews  (1994)  Manual asymmetry and handedness.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 91: 5030-5032..
  49. White, L., G. Lucas, A. Richards and  D. Purves (1994) Cerebral asymmetry and handedness.  Nature 368: 197-198..
  50. 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..
  51. LaMantia, A-S., S. Pomeroy and D. Purves (1992) Vital imaging of glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb. J. Neurosci. 12: 976-988..
  52. 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..
  53. 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..
  54. Purves, D. and J.W. Lichtman (1985) Geometrical differences among homologous neurons in mammals. Science 228: 298-302..