Bruce Cumming, M.D., Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Publications

Invited Reviews And Book Chapters

• Cumming BG (1994) Motion in Depth. In: Visual Detection of Motion (Smith AT, Snowdon RJ, eds), pp 333-366. London: Academic Press
• Parker, AJ, Harris, JM, Cumming, BG and Sumnall, JH (1996) Binocular Correspondence in Stereoscopic Vision. Eye 10:
• Cumming, BG (1997) How the Brain sees Depth. Current Biology 7: R645-647
• Cumming, BG (1998) A sense of direction: going with the flow. Nature Neuroscience 1: 6-8
• Parker AJ, Cumming BG, Johnston EB, Hurlbert AC (1994) Multiple cues for 3-D visual shape. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences: a handbook for the field. (Gazzaniga M, ed). Cambridge: MIT press.
• Parker AJ, Cumming BG, Dodd JV (2000) Binocular neurons and the perception of depth. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences (Gazzaniga M, ed), pp 263-278: MIT Press.
• Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG (2001) Cortical Mechanisms of binocular stereoscopic vision. Progress in Brain Research 134: chapter 14
• Cumming, BG and DeAngelis, GC (2001) The physiology of stereopsis. Annu Rev Neurosci. 24: 203-38
• Cumming, BG (2002) Stereopsis: Where Depth is Seen. Current Biology 12: R93-R95

Journal Articles

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• Nienborg H, Cumming BG. (2009) Decision-related activity in sensory neurons reflects more than a neuron's casual effect. Nature Mar 8, [Epub ahead of print].
• Bredfeldt CE, Read, JCA, Cumming BG. (2009) A quantitative explanation of responses to disparity-defined edges in macaque V2. J. Neurophysiol 101: 701-713.
• Tanabe S, Cumming BG. (2008) Mechanisms underlying the transformation of disparity signals from V1 to V2 in the macaque. J Neurosci. Oct 29;28(44):11304-14.
• Bridge H. Cumming BG. (2008) Representation of binocular surfaces by cortical neurons. Curr Opin Neurobiol. Aug;18(4):425-30.
• Haefner RM, Cumming BG. (2008) Adaptation to natural binocular disparities in primate V1 explained by a generalized energy model. Neuron 2008 Jan 10;57(1):147-58.
• Nienborg H, Cumming BG. (2008) Psychophysically measured task strategy for disparity discrimination is reflected in V2 neurons. Nature Neuroscience 10, 1608 - 1614. (pdf)
• Cumming, BG and Judge, SJ (1986) Disparity-induced and blur-induced convergence eye movement and accommodation in the monkey. J. Neurophysiol 55: 896--914
• Judge, SJ and Cumming, BG (1986) Neurons in the monkey midbrain with activity related to vergence eye movement and accommodation. J. Neurophysiol 55: 915--30
• Cumming, BG, Johnston, EB and Parker, AJ (1991) Vertical disparities and perception of three-dimensional shape. Nature 349: 411-413
• Cumming, BG, Johnston, EB and Parker, AJ (1993) Effects of different Texture Cues on Curved Surfaces Viewed Stereoscopically. Vision Res. 33: 827-282
• Johnston, EB, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (1993) Integration of Depth Modules: Stereo and Texture. Vision Res. 33: 813-82
• Jones, GJ, Christou, CG, Cumming, BG, Parker, AJ and Zisserman, AP (1993) Accurate rendering of curved shadows and interreflections. Proceedinigs of the Fourth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering 10: 337-347
• Wolpert, DM, Miall, RC, Cumming, BG and Boniface, S (1993) Retinal adaptation of visual processing time delays. Vision Res. 33: 1421-1430
• Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (1994) Binocular Mechanisms for detecting Motion-in-depth. Vision Res. 34: 483-496
• Johnston, EB, Cumming, BG and Landy, MS (1994) Integration of Stereo and Motion Shape Cues. Vision Res. 34: 2259-2275
• Cumming, BG (1995) The Relationship Between Stereoacuity and Stereomotion Thresholds. Perception 24: 105-114
• Parker, AJ, Harris, JM, Cumming, BG and Sumnall, JH (1996) Binocular Correspondence in Stereoscopic Vision. Eye 10: 177-81
• Bradshaw, MF and Cumming, BG (1997) The Direction of Retinal Motion Facilitates Binocular Stereopsis. Proc. Roy. Soc. B 264: 1421-1427
• Cumming, BG (1997) How the Brain sees Depth. Current Biology 7: R645-647
• Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (1997) Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without depth perception. Nature 389: 280-83
• Cumming, BG (1998) A sense of direction: going with the flow. Nature Neuroscience 1: 6-8
• Cumming, BG, Shapiro, SE and Parker, AJ (1998) Disparity detection in anticorrelated stereograms. Perception 27: 1367-77
• DeAngelis, GC, Cumming, BG and Newsome, WT (1998) Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth. Nature 394: 677-80
• Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (1999) Binocular Neurons in V1 of Awake Monkeys Are Selective for Absolute, not Relative, Disparity. J. Neuroscience 19: 5602-18
• Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2000) Local Disparity Not Perceived Depth is Signalled by Binocular Neurons in Cortical Area V1 of the Macaque. J. Neuroscience 20: 4758-4767
• Prince, SJD, Pointon, AD, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2000) The Precision of Single Neuron Responses in Cortical Area V1 During Stereoscopic Depth Judgements. J. Neuroscience 20: 3387-3400
• Bridge, H and Cumming, BG (2001) Responses of Macaque V1 neurons to Binocular Orientation Differences. J. Neuroscience 21: 7293-7302
• Cumming, BG and DeAngelis, GC (2001) The physiology of stereopsis. Annu Rev Neurosci. 24: 203-38
• Dodd, JV, Krug, K, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2001) Perceptually bistable three-dimensional figures evoke high choice probabilities in cortical area MT. J. Neuroscience 21: 4809-21
• Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG (2001) Cortical Mechanisms of binocular stereoscopic vision. Progress in Brain Research 134: chapter 14
• Prince, S, Offen, S, Cumming, BG and Eagle, RA (2001) The integration of orientation information in the motion correspondence problem. Perception. 30: 367-80
• Bridge, H, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2002) Modeling V1 neuronal responses to orientation disparity. Visual Neuroscience 18: 879-891
• Cumming, BG (2002) Stereopsis: Where Depth is Seen. Current Biology 12: R93-R95
• Cumming, BG (2002) An unexpected specialization for horizontal disparity in primate V1. Nature 418: 633-636
• Parker, AJ, Krug, K and Cumming, BG (2002) Neuronal activity and its links with perception. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. 357: 1053-1062
• Prince, SJD, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2002) Range and mechanism of horizontal disparity encoding in macaque V1. J. Neurophysiol 87: 209-221
• Prince, SJD, Pointon, AD, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2002) Quantitative analysis of responses of V1 Neurons to Horizontal Disparity in Dynamic Random Dot Stereograms. J. Neurophysiol 87: 191-208
• Read, JCA, Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG (2002) A simple model accounts for the response of disparity-tuned V1 neurons to anti-correlated images. Visual Neuroscience 19: 735-753
• Thomas, OM, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2002) A specialization for relative disparity in V2. Nature Neuroscience 5: 472-478
• Read, JCA and Cumming, BG (2003) Measuring V1 receptive fields despite eye movements in awake monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology 90: 946-960
• Read, JCA and Cumming, BG (2003) Testing Quantitative Models of Binocular Disparity Selectivity in Primary Visual Cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 90: 2795-2817
• Krug, K, Cumming, BG and Parker, AJ (2004) Comparing Perceptual Signals of Single V5/MT Neurons in Two Binocular Depth Tasks. J Neurophysiol 92: 1586-96
• Nienborg, H, Bridge, H, Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG (2004) Receptive Field Size in V1 Neurons Limits Acuity for Perceiving Disparity Modulation. J Neurosci 24: 2065-2076
• Read, JC and Cumming, BG (2004) Ocular dominance predicts neither strength nor class of disparity selectivity with random-dot stimuli in primate V1. J Neurophysiol 91: 1271-81
• Read, JC and Cumming, BG (2004) Understanding the cortical specialization for horizontal disparity. Neural Comput 16: 1983-2020
• Nienborg, H, Bridge, H, Parker, AJ and Cumming, BG (2005) Neuronal computation of disparity in V1 limits temporal resolution for detecting disparity modulation. J Neurosci 25: 10207-19
• Read, JC and Cumming, BG (2005) All Pulfrich-like illusions can be explained without joint encoding of motion and disparity. J Vis 5: 901-27
• Read, JC and Cumming, BG (2005) The effect of interocular delay on disparity-selective V1 neurons: relationship to stereoacuity and the Pulfrich effect. J Neurophysiol 94: 1541-1553
• Read, JC and Cumming, BG (2005) The stroboscopic Pulfrich effect is not evidence for the joint encoding of motion and depth. Journal of Vision 5: 417-434
• Bredfeldt, CE and Cumming, BG (2006) A simple account of cyclopean edge responses in macaque V2. J Neurosci 26: 7581-96
• Nienborg, H and Cumming, BG (2006) Macaque V2 Neurons, But Not V1 Neurons, Show Choice-Related Activity. J. Neurosci. 26: 9567-9578
• Read, JC and Cumming, BG (2006) Does depth perception require vertical disparity detectors? J Vis 6: 1323-1355
• Read JC, Cumming BG. (2007) Sensors for impossible stimuli may solve the stereo correspondence problem. Nat Neurosci. 2007 Oct;10(10):1322-8. Epub 2007 Sep 9.