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Books

  1. Purves, D, Why Brains Don't Compute (May, 2021), pp. 1-168 [doi[abs].

Papers Published

  1. Bowling, DL; Purves, D, A biological rationale for musical consonance., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112 no. 36 (September, 2015), pp. 11155-11160 [doi[abs].
  2. Gill, KZ; Purves, D, A biological rationale for musical scales., Plos One, vol. 4 no. 12 (December, 2009), pp. e8144 [19997506], [doi[abs].
  3. Gill, KZ; Purves, D, A biological rationale for musical scales., Plos One, vol. 4 no. 12 (2009), pp. e8144 [abs].
  4. Nicholls, JG; Purves, D, A comparison of chemical and electrical synaptic transmission between single sensory cells and a motoneurone in the central nervous system of the leech., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 225 no. 3 (September, 1972), pp. 637-656 [doi[abs].
  5. Nundy, S; Purves, D, A probabilistic explanation of brightness scaling., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 99 no. 22 (October, 2002), pp. 14482-14487 [12388786], [doi[abs].
  6. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, A probabilistic explanation of perceived line length and orientation, Journal of Vision, vol. 2 no. 7 (December, 2002), pp. 706-706, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  7. Long, F; Purves, D, A probabilistic explanation of simultaneous brightness contrast, Journal of Vision, vol. 2 no. 7 (December, 2002), pp. 366-366, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  8. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, A rationale for the structure of color space., Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 25 no. 2 (February, 2002), pp. 84-88 [11814560], [doi[abs].
  9. Yang, Z; Purves, D, A statistical explanation of visual space., Nature Neuroscience, vol. 6 no. 6 (June, 2003), pp. 632-640 [12754512], [doi[abs].
  10. Yang, Z; Shimpi, A; Purves, D, A wholly empirical explanation of perceived motion., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 98 no. 9 (April, 2001), pp. 5252-5257 [11320255], [doi[abs].
  11. Lichtman, JW; Purves, D, Activity-mediated neural change., Nature, vol. 301 no. 5901 (February, 1983), pp. 563 [doi].
  12. Ng, CJ; Purves, D, An Alternative Theory of Binocularity., Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, vol. 13 (January, 2019), pp. 71 [doi[abs].
  13. McMahan, UJ; Purves, D, An electron-microscopic study of a physiologically identified motoneurone in the leech C.N.S. after injection of the fluorescent dye Procion yellow., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 222 no. 1 (April, 1972), pp. 64P-66P.
  14. Lotto, RB; Williams, SM; Purves, D, An empirical basis for Mach bands., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 96 no. 9 (April, 1999), pp. 5239-5244 [10220450], [doi[abs].
  15. Sung, K; Wojtach, WT; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of aperture effects., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 106 no. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 298-303 [19114661], [doi[abs].
  16. Williams, SM; McCoy, AN; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of brightness., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 95 no. 22 (October, 1998), pp. 13301-13306 [9789083], [doi[abs].
  17. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of color contrast., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 97 no. 23 (November, 2000), pp. 12834-12839 [11058148], [doi[abs].
  18. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of the Chubb illusion, Journal of Vision, vol. 1 no. 3 (December, 2001), pp. 48-48, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  19. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of the Chubb illusion., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 13 no. 5 (July, 2001), pp. 547-555 [11506656], [doi[abs].
  20. Purves, D; Shimpi, A; Lotto, RB, An empirical explanation of the cornsweet effect., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 19 no. 19 (October, 1999), pp. 8542-8551 [10493754], [doi[abs].
  21. Wojtach, WT; Sung, K; Truong, S; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of the flash-lag effect., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105 no. 42 (October, 2008), pp. 16338-16343 [18852459], [doi[abs].
  22. Wojtach, WT; Sung, K; Purves, D, An empirical explanation of the speed-distance effect., Plos One, vol. 4 no. 8 (August, 2009), pp. e6771 [19707552], [doi[abs].
  23. Andrews T.J., and D. Purves  (1997)  Similarities in normal and binocularly rivalrous viewing.  Proc Natl Acad Sci  94: 9905-9908. (1997).
  24. 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).
  25. 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).
  26. Hume, RI; Purves, D, Apportionment of the terminals from single preganglionic axons to target neurones in the rabbit ciliary ganglion., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 338 (May, 1983), pp. 259-275 [doi[abs].
  27. Monson, BB; Han, S; Purves, D, Are auditory percepts determined by experience?, Plos One, vol. 8 no. 5 (January, 2013), pp. e63728 [23667666], [doi[abs].
  28. Purves, D, Assessing some dynamic properties of the living nervous system, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, vol. 74 no. 7 (1989), pp. 1089-1105 [doi].
  29. Purves, D; Riddle, DR; White, LE; Gutierrez-Ospina, G; LaMantia, AS, Categories of cortical structure., Progress in Brain Research, vol. 102 (1994), pp. 343-355 [7800824], [doi].
  30. White, LE; Lucas, G; Richards, A; Purves, D, Cerebral asymmetry and handedness., Nature, vol. 368 no. 6468 (March, 1994), pp. 197-198 [8145817], [doi].
  31. Purves, D; Hadley, RD, Changes in the dendritic branching of adult mammalian neurones revealed by repeated imaging in situ., Nature, vol. 315 no. 6018 (May, 1985), pp. 404-406 [doi[abs].
  32. Han, SE; Sundararajan, J; Bowling, DL; Lake, J; Purves, D, Co-variation of tonality in the music and speech of different cultures., Plos One, vol. 6 no. 5 (January, 2011), pp. e20160 [21637716], [doi[abs].
  33. Purves, D; Lotto, B; Polger, T, Color vision and the four-color-map problem., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 12 no. 2 (March, 2000), pp. 233-237 [10771407], [doi[abs].
  34. Howe, CQ; Beau Lotto, R; Purves, D, Comparison of Bayesian and empirical ranking approaches to visual perception., Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 241 no. 4 (August, 2006), pp. 866-875 [16537082], [doi[abs].
  35. Purves, D, Competitive and non-competitive re-innervation of mammalian sympathetic neurones by native and foreign fibres., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 261 no. 2 (October, 1976), pp. 453-475 [doi[abs].
  36. Purves, D; LaMantia, AS, Construction of modular circuits in the mammalian brain., Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, vol. 55 (January, 1990), pp. 445-452 [2132831], [doi[abs].
  37. Coppola, D. and D. Purves  (1996)  The extraordinarily rapid disappearance of entoptic images.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93: 8001-8004. (1996).
  38. 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).
  39. 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).
  40. Andrews, TJ; Halpern, SD; Purves, D, Correlated size variations in human visual cortex, lateral geniculate nucleus, and optic tract., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 17 no. 8 (April, 1997), pp. 2859-2868 [9092607], [doi[abs].
  41. Purves, D; LaMantia, A, Development of blobs in the visual cortex of macaques., The Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol. 334 no. 2 (August, 1993), pp. 169-175 [8366193], [doi[abs].
  42. LaMantia, AS; Purves, D, Development of glomerular pattern visualized in the olfactory bulbs of living mice., Nature, vol. 341 no. 6243 (October, 1989), pp. 646-649 [doi[abs].
  43. Riddle, DR; Gutierrez, G; Zheng, D; White, LE; Richards, A; Purves, D, Differential metabolic and electrical activity in the somatic sensory cortex of juvenile and adult rats., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 13 no. 10 (October, 1993), pp. 4193-4213 [8410183], [doi[abs].
  44. Purves, D; Hadley, RD; Voyvodic, JT, 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., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 6 no. 4 (April, 1986), pp. 1051-1060 [3701409], [doi[abs].
  45. Purves, D; Njå, A, Effect of nerve growth factor on synaptic depression after axotomy., Nature, vol. 260 no. 5551 (April, 1976), pp. 535-536 [doi[abs].
  46. Zheng, D; Purves, D, Effects of increased neural activity on brain growth., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 92 no. 6 (March, 1995), pp. 1802-1806 [7892181], [doi[abs].
  47. Purves, D; Lichtman, JW, Elimination of synapses in the developing nervous system., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 210 no. 4466 (October, 1980), pp. 153-157 [doi[abs].
  48. Lotto, RB; Williams, SM; Purves, D, Erratum: An empirical basis for Mach bands (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (April 27, 1999) 96:9 (5239-5244)), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 96 no. 13 (June, 1999), pp. 7610 [doi].
  49. Long, F; Purves, D, Evidence that color contrast effects have a probabilistic foundation, Journal of Vision, vol. 3 no. 9 (December, 2003), pp. 314-314, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  50. Boots, B; Nundy, S; Purves, D, Evolution of visually guided behavior in artificial agents., Network: Computation in Neural Systems, vol. 18 no. 1 (March, 2007), pp. 11-34 [17454680], [doi[abs].
  51. Purves, D; Lotto, B, Explanation of some major features of color perception, Journal of Vision, vol. 1 no. 3 (December, 2001), pp. 60-60, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  52. Bowling, DL; Sundararajan, J; Han, S; Purves, D, Expression of emotion in Eastern and Western music mirrors vocalization., Plos One, vol. 7 no. 3 (January, 2012), pp. e31942 [22431970], [doi[abs].
  53. Magrassi, L; Purves, D; Lichtman, JW, Fluorescent probes that stain living nerve terminals., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 7 no. 4 (April, 1987), pp. 1207-1214 [doi[abs].
  54. Purves, D; Lichtman, JW, Formation and maintenance of synaptic connections in autonomic ganglia., Physiological Reviews, vol. 58 no. 4 (October, 1978), pp. 821-862 [doi[abs].
  55. Purves, D, Functional and structural changes in mammalian sympathetic neurones following colchicine application to post-ganglionic nerves., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 259 no. 1 (July, 1976), pp. 159-175 [doi[abs].
  56. Purves, D, Functional and structural changes in mammalian sympathetic neurones following interruption of their axons., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 252 no. 2 (November, 1975), pp. 429-463 [doi[abs].
  57. Purves, D; Lichtman, JW, Geometrical differences among homologous neurons in mammals., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 228 no. 4697 (April, 1985), pp. 298-302 [doi[abs].
  58. Hume, RI; Purves, D, Geometry of neonatal neurones and the regulation of synapse elimination., Nature, vol. 293 no. 5832 (October, 1981), pp. 469-471 [doi[abs].
  59. Riddle, D; Richards, A; Zsuppan, F; Purves, D, Growth of the rat somatic sensory cortex and its constituent parts during postnatal development., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 12 no. 9 (September, 1992), pp. 3509-3524 [1527593], [doi[abs].
  60. Halpern, S.D., T.J. Andrews and D. Purves (1999) Interindividual variation in human visual performance. J. Cog. Neurosci. 11: 521-534. (1999).
  61. Purves, D; Monson, BB; Sundararajan, J; Wojtach, WT, How biological vision succeeds in the physical world., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111 no. 13 (April, 2014), pp. 4750-4755 [doi[abs].
  62. Howe Q, Purves D (2004) Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of scene geometry. J Cog Neurosci 16(1): 90-102. (2004).
  63. Holcombe, AO; Clifford, CWG; Eagleman, DM; Pakarian, P, Illusory motion reversal in tune with motion detectors., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 9 no. 12 (December, 2005), pp. 559-560 [doi].
  64. Yang, Z; Purves, D, Image/source statistics of surfaces in natural scenes., Network: Computation in Neural Systems, vol. 14 no. 3 (August, 2003), pp. 371-390 [12938763], [doi[abs].
  65. Purves, D; Voyvodic, JT, Imaging mammalian nerve cells and their connections over time in living animals, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 10 no. 10 (January, 1987), pp. 398-404, Elsevier BV [doi[abs].
  66. Riddle, DR; Purves, D, Individual variation and lateral asymmetry of the rat primary somatosensory cortex., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 15 no. 6 (June, 1995), pp. 4184-4195 [7790904], [doi[abs].
  67. Lichtman, JW; Purves, D; Yip, JW, Innervation of sympathetic neurones in the guinea-pig thoracic chain., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 298 (January, 1980), pp. 285-299 [doi[abs].
  68. Halpern, SD; Andrews, TJ; Purves, D, Interindividual variation in human visual performance., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 11 no. 5 (September, 1999), pp. 521-534 [10511641], [doi[abs].
  69. Purves, D; White, LE; Riddle, DR, Is neural development Darwinian?, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 19 no. 11 (November, 1996), pp. 460-464 [8931267], [doi[abs].
  70. Purves, D; Riddle, DR; LaMantia, AS, Iterated patterns of brain circuitry (or how the cortex gets its spots), Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 15 no. 10 (October, 1992), pp. 362-368 [1279855], [doi[abs].
  71. LaMantia, A-S., S. Pomeroy and D. Purves (1992) Vital imaging of glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb. J. Neurosci. 12: 976-988. (1992).
  72. 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).
  73. Lotto RB, Purves D (2004) Perceiving color. Color Dyers Rev (in press). (2004).
  74. Lotto RB, Purves D (2005) Understanding the basis of color perception. International Review of Neurobiology (In press). (2005).
  75. Lotto, R.B and D. Purves (2002) An empirical explanation of the Chubb Illusion. J. Cog. Neurosci. 13: 1-9. (2002).
  76. Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (1999) The effects of color on brightness. Nature Neurosci. 2: 1010-1014. (1999).
  77. Lotto, R.B. and D. Purves (2000) An empirical explanation of color contrast. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 12834-12839. (2000).
  78. Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999) Mach bands as empirically derived associations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5245-5250. (1999).
  79. Lotto, R.B., S.M. Williams and D. Purves (1999a) An empirical basis for Mach bands. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 96: 5239-5244. (1999).
  80. Lotto, RB; Williams, SM; Purves, D, Mach bands as empirically derived associations., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 96 no. 9 (April, 1999), pp. 5245-5250 [10220451], [doi[abs].
  81. Bowling, DL; Gill, K; Choi, JD; Prinz, J; Purves, D, Major and minor music compared to excited and subdued speech., The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 127 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 491-503 [20058994], [doi[abs].
  82. Purves, D; White, LE; Andrews, TJ, Manual asymmetry and handedness., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 91 no. 11 (May, 1994), pp. 5030-5032 [8197178], [doi[abs].
  83. Purves, D; Sakmann, B, Membrane properties underlying spontaneous activity of denervated muscle fibres., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 239 no. 1 (May, 1974), pp. 125-153 [doi[abs].
  84. Purves, D, Modulation of neuronal competition by postsynaptic geometry in autonomic ganglia, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 6 no. C (January, 1983), pp. 10-16, Elsevier BV [doi[abs].
  85. Purves, D; White, LE, Monocular preferences in binocular viewing., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 91 no. 18 (August, 1994), pp. 8339-8342 [8078884], [doi[abs].
  86. Nicholls, JG; Purves, D, Monosynaptic chemical and electrical connexions between sensory and motor cells in the central nervous system of the leech., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 209 no. 3 (August, 1970), pp. 647-667 [doi[abs].
  87. Hevner, RF; Illing, RB; Purves, D; Riddle, D; LaMantia, A, More modules [2], Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 16 no. 5 (1993), pp. 178-180.
  88. Ross, D; Choi, J; Purves, D, Musical intervals in speech., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104 no. 23 (June, 2007), pp. 9852-9857 [17525146], [doi[abs].
  89. Long, F; Purves, D, Natural scene statistics as the universal basis of color context effects., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 100 no. 25 (December, 2003), pp. 15190-15193 [14623975], [doi[abs].
  90. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, Natural-scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientation., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 102 no. 4 (January, 2005), pp. 1228-1233 [15657143], [doi[abs].
  91. Purves, D; Voyvodic, JT; Magrassi, L; Yawo, H, Nerve terminal remodeling visualized in living mice by repeated examination of the same neuron., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 238 no. 4830 (November, 1987), pp. 1122-1126 [3685967], [doi[abs].
  92. Ng, C; Sundararajan, J; Hogan, M; Purves, D, Network connections that evolve to circumvent the inverse optics problem., Plos One, vol. 8 no. 3 (January, 2013), pp. e60490 [23555981], [doi[abs].
  93. Purves, D; Riddle, DR; White, LE; Gutierrez-Ospina, G, Neural activity and the development of the somatic sensory system., Current Opinion in Neurobiology, vol. 4 no. 1 (February, 1994), pp. 120-123 [8173318], [doi[abs].
  94. Purves, D; Wigston, DJ, Neural units in the superior cervical ganglion of the guinea-pig., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 334 (January, 1983), pp. 169-178 [doi[abs].
  95. Pomeroy, SL; Purves, D, Neuron/glia relationships observed over intervals of several months in living mice., The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 107 no. 3 (September, 1988), pp. 1167-1175 [doi[abs].
  96. Purves, D, Neuronal competition., Nature, vol. 287 no. 5783 (October, 1980), pp. 585-586 [doi].
  97. Purves, D; LaMantia, AS, Numbers of "blobs" in the primary visual cortex of neonatal and adult monkeys., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 87 no. 15 (August, 1990), pp. 5764-5767 [doi[abs].
  98. Nundy, S., B. Lotto, D. Coppola, A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2000) Why are angles misperceived? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 97: 5592-5597. (2000).
  99. Lichtman, JW; Purves, D; Yip, JW, On the purpose of selective innervation of guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion cells., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 292 (July, 1979), pp. 69-84 [doi[abs].
  100. Ivanov, A; Purves, D, Ongoing electrical activity of superior cervical ganglion cells in mammals of different size., The Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol. 284 no. 3 (June, 1989), pp. 398-404 [doi[abs].
  101. Purves, D, Opinion: What does AI's success playing complex board games tell brain scientists?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116 no. 30 (July, 2019), pp. 14785-14787 [doi].
  102. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, Perceiving colour, Review of Progress in Coloration and Related Topics, vol. 34 no. 1 (January, 2004), pp. 12-25, WILEY [doi[abs].
  103. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, Perceiving geometry: Geometrical illusions explained by natural scene statistics, Perceiving Geometry: Geometrical Illusions Explained by Natural Scene Statistics (January, 2005), pp. 1-126, Springer Verlag [doi[abs].
  104. Purves, D; Williams, SM; Nundy, S; Lotto, RB, Perceiving the intensity of light., Psychological Review, vol. 111 no. 1 (January, 2004), pp. 142-158 [14756591], [doi[abs].
  105. Purves, D; Morgenstern, Y; Wojtach, WT, Perception and Reality: Why a Wholly Empirical Paradigm is Needed to Understand Vision., Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, vol. 9 (January, 2015), pp. 156 [doi[abs].
  106. Purves, D, Perception as probability., Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 50 no. 5-6 (November, 1999), pp. 321-322 [10643417], [doi].
  107. Yang, Z; Purves, D, Perception of objects that are both rotating and translating, Journal of Vision, vol. 1 no. 3 (December, 2001), pp. 325-325, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  108. Yang, Z; Shimpi, A; Purves, D, Perception of objects that are translating and rotating., Perception, vol. 31 no. 8 (January, 2002), pp. 925-942 [12269587], [doi[abs].
  109. Purves, D, Perception of Surfaces and Forms (January, 2009), pp. 513-521, Elsevier [doi[abs].
  110. Purves, D, Persistent innervation of mammalian sympathetic neurones by native and foreign fibres., Nature, vol. 256 no. 5518 (August, 1975), pp. 589-590 [doi].
  111. Schwartz, DA; Purves, D, Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds., Hearing Research, vol. 194 no. 1-2 (August, 2004), pp. 31-46 [15276674], [doi[abs].
  112. Johnson, DA; Purves, D, Post-natal reduction of neural unit size in the rabbit ciliary ganglion., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 318 (September, 1981), pp. 143-159 [doi[abs].
  113. Pomeroy, SL; LaMantia, AS; Purves, D, Postnatal construction of neural circuitry in the mouse olfactory bulb., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 10 no. 6 (June, 1990), pp. 1952-1966 [doi[abs].
  114. Morgenstern, Y; Rostami, M; Purves, D, Properties of artificial networks evolved to contend with natural spectra., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111 Suppl 3 (July, 2014), pp. 10868-10872 [doi[abs].
  115. Morgenstern, Y; Rukmini, DV; Monson, BB; Purves, D, Properties of artificial neurons that report lightness based on accumulated experience with luminance., Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, vol. 8 (January, 2014), pp. 134 [doi[abs].
  116. Purves D, Lotto RB (2004) The Cornsweet effect. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 3rd edition. G. Adelman and B.H. Smith, eds. Elsevier Press 2004. (2004).
  117. 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).
  118. Purves D., R. B. Lotto and S. Nundy (2002) Why we see what we do.  American Scientist 90(3): 236-243. (2002).
  119. Purves, D. (1994) Neural Activity and the Growth of the Brain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. (1994).
  120. Purves, D. (1995) Race plus IQ does not equal science. Nature 374: 10. (1995).
  121. Purves, D. and J.W. Lichtman (1985) Geometrical differences among homologous neurons in mammals. Science 228: 298-302. (1985).
  122. Purves, D. and L. E. White (1994) Monocular preferences in binocular viewing.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 91: 8339-8342. (1994).
  123. Purves, D. and T. J.  Andrews (1997)  The perception of transparent 3-dimensional objects.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 94: 6517-6522. (1997).
  124. Purves, D., A. Shimpi and R.B. Lotto (1999) An empirical explanation of the Cornsweet effect. J. Neurosci. 19: 8542-8551. (1999).
  125. Purves, D., B. Lotto and T. Polger (2000) Color vision and the four-color-map problem. J. Cog. Neurosci. 12: 233-237. (2000).
  126. 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).
  127. 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).
  128. Purves, D., L.E. White  and D.R. Riddle (1996)  Is neural development Darwinian?  Trends Neurosci 19: 460-464. (1996).
  129. 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).
  130. 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).
  131. 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).
  132. 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).
  133. 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).
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  135. Purves, D.,  S.M. Williams, S. Nundy and B.B. Lotto (2003) Perceiving the Intensity of Light.  Psychological Rev. Vol 111: 142-158. (2004).
  136. Purves,  D. and R.B. Lotto (2003) Why We See What We Do:  An Empirical Theory  of Vision. Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA. (2003).
  137. Purves, D, Race plus IQ does not equal science., Nature, vol. 374 no. 6517 (March, 1995), pp. 10 [doi].
  138. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, Range image statistics can explain the anomalous perception of length., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 99 no. 20 (October, 2002), pp. 13184-13188 [12237401], [doi[abs].
  139. Harris, LW; Purves, D, Rapid remodeling of sensory endings in the corneas of living mice., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 9 no. 6 (June, 1989), pp. 2210-2214 [doi[abs].
  140. Purves, D; Thompson, W; Yip, JW, Re-innervation of ganglia transplanted to the neck from different levels of the guinea-pig sympathetic chain., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 313 (January, 1981), pp. 49-63 [doi[abs].
  141. Nja, A; Purves, D, Re-innervation of guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion cells by preganglionic fibres arising from different levels of the spinal cord., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 272 no. 3 (November, 1977), pp. 633-651 [doi[abs].
  142. Forehand, CJ; Purves, D, Regional innervation of rabbit ciliary ganglion cells by the terminals of preganglionic axons., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 4 no. 1 (January, 1984), pp. 1-12 [doi[abs].
  143. Purves, D; Johnson, DA; Hume, RI, Regulation of synaptic connections in the rabbit ciliary ganglion., Ciba Foundation Symposium, vol. 83 (1981), pp. 232-251 [doi[abs].
  144. Purves, D; Rubin, E; Snider, WD; Lichtman, J, Relation of animal size to convergence, divergence, and neuronal number in peripheral sympathetic pathways., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 6 no. 1 (January, 1986), pp. 158-163 [doi[abs].
  145. Purves, D; Riddle, D; LaMantia, A, Reply, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 16 no. 5 (January, 1993), pp. 180-181, Elsevier BV [doi].
  146. Bowling, DL; Purves, D; Gill, KZ, Reply to Goffinet: In consonance, old ideas die hard., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115 no. 22 (May, 2018), pp. E4958-E4959 [doi].
  147. Riddle, D.R. and  D. Purves (1995)  Individual variation and lateral asymmetry of the rat primary somatosensory cortex.  J. Neurosci. 15: 4184-4195. (1995).
  148. 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).
  149. Schwartz D, Purves D (2004) Pitch is determined by naturally occurring periodic sounds. Hearing Research 194: 31-46. (2004).
  150. 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).
  151. Lotto, RB; Clarke, R; Corney, D; Purves, D, Seeing in colour, Optics & Laser Technology, vol. 43 no. 2 (March, 2011), pp. 261-269, Elsevier BV [doi[abs].
  152. Rubin, E; Purves, D, Segmental organization of sympathetic preganglionic neurons in the mammalian spinal cord., The Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol. 192 no. 1 (July, 1980), pp. 163-174 [doi[abs].
  153. Andrews, TJ; Purves, D, Similarities in normal and binocularly rivalrous viewing., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 94 no. 18 (September, 1997), pp. 9905-9908 [9275224], [doi[abs].
  154. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of natural scene geometry., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 16 no. 1 (January, 2004), pp. 90-102 [15006039], [doi[abs].
  155. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, Size contrast explained by the statistics of scene geometry, Journal of Vision, vol. 3 no. 9 (December, 2003), pp. 522-522, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  156. Zheng, D; LaMantia, AS; Purves, D, Specialized vascularization of the primate visual cortex., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 11 no. 8 (August, 1991), pp. 2622-2629 [1714496], [doi[abs].
  157. Purves, D; Lichtman, JW, Specific connections between nerve cells., Annual Review of Physiology, vol. 45 (January, 1983), pp. 553-565 [doi].
  158. Njå, A; Purves, D, Specific innervation of guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion cells by preganglionic fibres arising from different levels of the spinal cord., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 264 no. 2 (January, 1977), pp. 565-583 [doi[abs].
  159. Njå, A; Purves, D, Specificity of initial synaptic contacts made on guinea-pig superior cervical ganglion cells during regeneration of the cervical sympathetic trunk., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 281 (August, 1978), pp. 45-62 [doi[abs].
  160. Long, F; Yang, Z; Purves, D, Spectral statistics in natural scenes predict hue, saturation, and brightness., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 103 no. 15 (April, 2006), pp. 6013-6018 [16595630], [doi[abs].
  161. Yang, Z; Purves, D, Statistical concatenations of luminance can explain lightness/brightness percepts, Journal of Vision, vol. 3 no. 9 (December, 2003), pp. 423-423, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  162. White, LE; Andrews, TJ; Hulette, C; Richards, A; Groelle, M; Paydarfar, J; Purves, D, Structure of the human sensorimotor system. I: Morphology and cytoarchitecture of the central sulcus., Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), vol. 7 no. 1 (1997), pp. 18-30 [9023429], [doi[abs].
  163. White, LE; Andrews, TJ; Hulette, C; Richards, A; Groelle, M; Paydarfar, J; Purves, D, Structure of the human sensorimotor system. II: Lateral symmetry., Cerebral Cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), vol. 7 no. 1 (1997), pp. 31-47 [9023430], [doi[abs].
  164. Roper, S; Purves, D; McMahan, UJ, Synaptic organization and acetylcholine sensitivity of multiply innervated autonomic ganglion cells, Symposia on Quantitative Biology, vol. Vol. 40 (January, 1975), pp. 283-295 [abs].
  165. Roper, S; Purves, D; McMahan, UJ, Synaptic organization and acetylcholine sensitivity of multiply innervated autonomic ganglion cells., Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, vol. 40 (January, 1976), pp. 283-295 [doi[abs].
  166. Purves, D; Lichtman, JW, Synaptic sites on reinnervated nerve cells visualized at two different times in living mice., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 7 no. 5 (May, 1987), pp. 1492-1497 [doi[abs].
  167. Andrews, TJ; White, LE; Binder, D; Purves, D, Temporal events in cyclopean vision., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 93 no. 8 (April, 1996), pp. 3689-3692 [8622998], [doi[abs].
  168. Purves, D; Sanes, JR, The 1986 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 10 no. 6 (January, 1987), pp. 231-235, Elsevier BV [doi].
  169. Easter, SS; Purves, D; Rakic, P; Spitzer, NC, The changing view of neural specificity., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 230 no. 4725 (November, 1985), pp. 507-511 [doi[abs].
  170. Purves, D; Yegappan, C, The Demands of Geometry on Color Vision., Vision (Basel, Switzerland), vol. 1 no. 1 (January, 2017), pp. E9 [doi[abs].
  171. Coppola, DM; Purves, HR; McCoy, AN; Purves, D, The distribution of oriented contours in the real world., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 95 no. 7 (March, 1998), pp. 4002-4006 [9520482], [doi[abs].
  172. Purves, D; McMahan, UJ, The distribution of synapses on a physiologically identified motor neuron in the central nervous system of the leech. An electron microscope study after the injection of the fluorescent dye procion yellow., The Journal of Cell Biology, vol. 55 no. 1 (October, 1972), pp. 205-220 [doi[abs].
  173. Purves, D; Sakmann, B, The effect of contractile activity on fibrillation and extrajunctional acetylcholine-sensitivity in rat muscle maintained in organ culture., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 237 no. 1 (February, 1974), pp. 157-182 [doi[abs].
  174. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, The effects of color on brightness., Nature Neuroscience, vol. 2 no. 11 (November, 1999), pp. 1010-1014 [10526341], [doi[abs].
  175. Njå, A; Purves, D, The effects of nerve growth factor and its antiserum on synapses in the superior cervical ganglion of the guinea-pig., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 277 no. 1 (April, 1978), pp. 53-75, WILEY [doi[abs].
  176. Purves, D; Thompson, W, The effects of post-ganglionic axotomy on selective synaptic connexions in the superior cervical ganglion of the guinea-pig., Journal of Physiology, vol. 297 (1979), pp. 95-110 [doi[abs].
  177. Lichtman, JW; Purves, D, The elimination of redundant preganglionic innervation to hamster sympathetic ganglion cells in early post-natal life., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 301 (April, 1980), pp. 213-228 [doi[abs].
  178. Lotto, RB; Purves, D, The empirical basis of color perception., Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 11 no. 4 (December, 2002), pp. 609-629 [12470626], [doi[abs].
  179. Coppola, D; Purves, D, The extraordinarily rapid disappearance of entoptic images., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 93 no. 15 (July, 1996), pp. 8001-8004 [8755592], [doi[abs].
  180. Williams, SM; McCoy, AN; Purves, D, The influence of depicted illumination on brightness., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 95 no. 22 (October, 1998), pp. 13296-13300 [9789082], [doi[abs].
  181. Howe, CQ; Purves, D, The Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image-source relationships., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 102 no. 4 (January, 2005), pp. 1234-1239 [15657142], [doi[abs].
  182. Purves, D; Andrews, TJ, The perception of transparent three-dimensional objects., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 94 no. 12 (June, 1997), pp. 6517-6522 [9177250], [doi[abs].
  183. Howe, CQ; Yang, Z; Purves, D, The Poggendorff illusion explained by natural scene geometry., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 102 no. 21 (May, 2005), pp. 7707-7712 [15888555], [doi[abs].
  184. Purves, D; Yang, Z, The Poggendorff illusion explained by the statistics of natural scene geometry, Journal of Vision, vol. 2 no. 7 (December, 2002), pp. 201-201, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  185. Yang, Z; Purves, D, The probabilistic foundation of visual space, Journal of Vision, vol. 2 no. 7 (December, 2002), pp. 715-715, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  186. Purves, D; Hume, RI, The relation of postsynaptic geometry to the number of presynaptic axons that innervate autonomic ganglion cells., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 1 no. 5 (May, 1981), pp. 441-452 [doi[abs].
  187. Nundy, S; Shimpi, A; Purves, D, The relationship between luminance and brightness, Journal of Vision, vol. 1 no. 3 (December, 2001), pp. 426-426, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  188. Purves, D; Williams, SM; Lotto, RB, The relevance of visual perception to cortical evolution and development., Novartis Foundation Symposium, vol. 228 (January, 2000), pp. 240-254 [10929326], [doi[abs].
  189. Schwartz, DA; Howe, CQ; Purves, D, The statistical structure of human speech sounds predicts musical universals., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 23 no. 18 (August, 2003), pp. 7160-7168 [12904476], [doi[abs].
  190. Yang, Z; Purves, D, The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 101 no. 23 (June, 2004), pp. 8745-8750 [15152077], [doi[abs].
  191. Purves, D, The trophic theory of neural concentrations, Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 9 no. C (January, 1986), pp. 486-489, Elsevier BV [doi].
  192. Purves, D; Paydarfar, JA; Andrews, TJ, The wagon wheel illusion in movies and reality., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 93 no. 8 (April, 1996), pp. 3693-3697 [8622999], [doi[abs].
  193. Andrews, T; Purves, D, The wagon-wheel illusion in continuous light., Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 9 no. 6 (June, 2005), pp. 261-263 [doi[abs].
  194. Johnson, DA; Purves, D, Tonic and reflex synaptic activity recorded in ciliary ganglion cells of anaesthetized rabbits., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 339 (June, 1983), pp. 599-613 [doi[abs].
  195. Purves, D; Snider, WD; Voyvodic, JT, Trophic regulation of nerve cell morphology and innervation in the autonomic nervous system., Nature, vol. 336 no. 6195 (November, 1988), pp. 123-128 [3054564], [doi[abs].
  196. Purves, D; Wojtach, WT; Lotto, RB, Understanding vision in wholly empirical terms., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108 Suppl 3 (September, 2011), pp. 15588-15595 [21383192], [doi[abs].
  197. Coppola, DM; White, LE; Fitzpatrick, D; Purves, D, Unequal representation of cardinal and oblique contours in ferret visual cortex., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 95 no. 5 (March, 1998), pp. 2621-2623 [9482936], [doi[abs].
  198. Sporns, O, Variation and selection in neural function., Trends in Neurosciences, vol. 20 no. 7 (July, 1997), pp. 291 [doi].
  199. Purves, D, Viktor Hamburger 1900-2001., Nature Neuroscience, vol. 4 no. 8 (August, 2001), pp. 777-778 [11477419], [doi].
  200. Purves, D; Howe, CQ; Schwartz, DA, Vision and the perception of music have a common denominator, Journal of Vision, vol. 3 no. 9 (December, 2003), pp. 518-518, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) [doi[abs].
  201. McMahan, UJ; Purves, D, Visual identification of two kinds of nerve cells and their synaptic contacts in a living autonomic ganglion of the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus)., The Journal of Physiology, vol. 254 no. 2 (January, 1976), pp. 405-425 [doi[abs].
  202. Lichtman, JW; Magrassi, L; Purves, D, Visualization of neuromuscular junctions over periods of several months in living mice., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 7 no. 4 (April, 1987), pp. 1215-1222 [doi[abs].
  203. LaMantia, AS; Pomeroy, SL; Purves, D, Vital imaging of glomeruli in the mouse olfactory bulb., The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, vol. 12 no. 3 (March, 1992), pp. 976-988 [1545246], [doi[abs].
  204. Bowling, DL; Purves, D; Gill, KZ, Vocal similarity predicts the relative attraction of musical chords., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 115 no. 1 (January, 2018), pp. 216-221 [doi[abs].
  205. 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).
  206. White, L., G. Lucas, A. Richards and  D. Purves (1994) Cerebral asymmetry and handedness.  Nature 368: 197-198. (1994).
  207. 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).
  208. 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).
  209. Nundy, S; Lotto, B; Coppola, D; Shimpi, A; Purves, D, Why are angles misperceived?, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 97 no. 10 (May, 2000), pp. 5592-5597 [10805814], [doi[abs].
  210. Purves, D; Lotto, RB; Williams, SM; Nundy, S; Yang, Z, Why we see things the way we do: evidence for a wholly empirical strategy of vision., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, vol. 356 no. 1407 (March, 2001), pp. 285-297 [11316481], [doi[abs].
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  214. Yang Z, Purves D (2004) The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity. Proc Natl Acad Sci 101: 8745-8750 (2004).
  215. Yang, Z. and D. Purves (2003) Image/source statistics in natural scenes. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 14 (3): 371-390. (2003).
  216. Yang, Z., A. Shimpi and D. Purves (2001) A wholly empirical explanation of perceived motion. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 9: 5252-5257. (2001).
  217. Zheng, D. and D. Purves  (1995)  The effects of increased neural activity on brain growth.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 92: 1802-1806. (1995).

Articles and Chapters

  1. Bowling, D; Purves, D, A biological basis for musical tonality, in Sensory Perception: Mind and Matter (January, 2012), pp. 205-214, Springer Vienna [doi[abs].

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