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Bruce G. Cumming is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with 27 publications identified across this broad field. Within neuroscience, they have contributed extensively to cognitive neuroscience and cellular and molecular neuroscience, with additional work spanning social psychology, molecular biology, and biophysics.

The scientist's main research topics emphasize visual perception and processing mechanisms, which constitute the largest area of their work. Other significant topics include neural dynamics and brain function, neurobiology and insect physiology research, as well as more specialized subjects such as face recognition and perception, color perception and design, tactile and sensory interactions, and retinal development and disorders.

Publications by Bruce G. Cumming cover a range of high-profile journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Vision, where they have contributed six papers, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with three publications, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS ONE, and the Journal of Neurophysiology.

  • Transformations of sensory information in the brain suggest changing criteria for optimality (2024, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • Ocular-following responses in school-age children (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Model-based characterization of the selectivity of neurons in primary visual cortex (2022, Journal of Neurophysiology)
  • Short-latency ocular-following responses: Weighted nonlinear summation predicts the outcome of a competition between two sine wave gratings moving in opposite directions (2020, Journal of Vision)
  • Pattern Motion Direction Is Encoded in the Population Activity of Macaque Area MT (2022, Journal of Neuroscience)

The scientist has frequently collaborated with several researchers over multiple projects. These include Christian Quaia, Felix Bartsch, Daniel A. Butts, B. M. Sheliga, and Edmond J. FitzGibbon. The number of collaborations with these co-authors ranges from three to six papers, indicating an ongoing research partnership.

Best Publications

  • The physiology of stereopsis.

    B. G. Cumming;G. C. DeAngelis

  • Cortical area MT and the perception of stereoscopic depth

    Gregory C. DeAngelis;Bruce G. Cumming;William T. Newsome

  • Responses of primary visual cortical neurons to binocular disparity without depth perception

    B G Cumming;A J Parker

  • Decision-related activity in sensory neurons reflects more than a neuron’s causal effect

    Hendrikje Nienborg;Bruce G. Cumming

  • Perceptually bistable three-dimensional figures evoke high choice probabilities in cortical area MT.

    Jonathan V. Dodd;Kristine Krug;Bruce G. Cumming;Andrew J. Parker

  • Binocular neurons in V1 of awake monkeys are selective for absolute, not relative, disparity.

    B. G. Cumming;A. J. Parker

  • A specialization for relative disparity in V2.

    Owen M. Thomas;Bruce G. Cumming;Andrew J. Parker

  • Neurons in the monkey midbrain with activity related to vergence eye movement and accommodation

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  • Quantitative Analysis of the Responses of V1 Neurons to Horizontal Disparity in Dynamic Random-Dot Stereograms

    S.J.D. Prince;A. D. Pointon;B. G. Cumming;A. J. Parker

  • Integration of stereopsis and motion shape cues.

    Elizabeth B. Johnston;Bruce G. Cumming;Michael S. Landy

  • Decision-Related Activity in Sensory Neurons: Correlations Among Neurons and with Behavior

    Hendrikje Nienborg;Marlene R. Cohen;Bruce G. Cumming

  • Range and mechanism of encoding of horizontal disparity in macaque V1.

    S.J.D. Prince;B. G. Cumming;A. J. Parker

  • Integration of depth modules: Stereopsis and texture

    E.B. Johnston;B.G. Cumming;A.J. Parker

  • Binocular mechanisms for detecting motion-in-depth

    B G Cumming;A J Parker

  • Macaque V2 neurons, but not V1 neurons, show choice-related activity.

    Hendrikje Nienborg;Bruce G. Cumming

  • Local Disparity Not Perceived Depth Is Signaled by Binocular Neurons in Cortical Area V1 of the Macaque

    Bruce G. Cumming;Andrew J. Parker

  • Feedback determines the structure of correlated variability in primary visual cortex.

    Adrian G Bondy;Ralf M Haefner;Bruce G Cumming

  • An unexpected specialization for horizontal disparity in primate primary visual cortex

    B. G. Cumming

  • Vertical disparities and perception of three-dimensional shape.

    B G Cumming;E B Johnston;A J Parker

  • The Precision of Single Neuron Responses in Cortical Area V1 during Stereoscopic Depth Judgments

    Simon J. D. Prince;Andrew D. Pointon;Bruce G. Cumming;Andrew J. Parker

  • Disparity detection in anticorrelated stereograms.

    Bruce G Cumming;Susan E Shapiro;Andrew J Parker

Frequent Co-Authors

Lance M. Optican
Lance M. Optican National Institutes of Health
Holly Bridge
Holly Bridge University of Oxford
Gregory C. DeAngelis
Gregory C. DeAngelis University of Rochester
William T. Newsome
William T. Newsome Stanford University
Christopher C. Pack
Christopher C. Pack McGill University
Ichiro Fujita
Ichiro Fujita Osaka University
Michael J. Hawken
Michael J. Hawken New York University
Robert H. Wurtz
Robert H. Wurtz National Institutes of Health
Nicholas J. Priebe
Nicholas J. Priebe The University of Texas at Austin
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales

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