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Overview

Christopher W. Tyler is affiliated with the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including computer vision and pattern recognition, mechanical engineering, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research topics cover multiple aspects of visual and neural sciences. Major themes include visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, aesthetic perception and analysis, retinal development and disorders, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, ophthalmology and visual impairment studies, and ocular and laser science research.

Christopher W. Tyler has frequently published in a variety of scientific venues. Prominent publication outlets for their work include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Electronic Imaging
  • Vision Research
  • Journal of Research in Philosophy and History
  • Perception

Their recent papers demonstrate a range of scientific interests. These include:

  • "Multi-level control of adaptive camouflage by European cuttlefish," 2022, Current Biology
  • "Ten Testable Properties of Consciousness," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Self-Regulation of Seat of Attention Into Various Attentional Stances Facilitates Access to Cognitive and Emotional Resources: An EEG Study," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The Nature of Illusions: A New Synthesis Based on Verifiability," 2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • "A gain-control disparity energy model for perceived depth from disparity," 2021, Vision Research

Christopher W. Tyler has collaborated extensively with several coauthors in their field. Frequent collaborators include Lora T. Likova, Michael Liang, Joshua A. Solomon, Zhangziyi Zhou, and Kristyo Mineff.

Best Publications

  • Bayesian adaptive estimation of psychometric slope and threshold.

    Leonid L. Kontsevich;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Spatial frequency sweep VEP: visual acuity during the first year of life.

    Anthony M. Norcia;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Perceived velocity of moving chromatic gratings

    P. Cavanagh;C.W. Tyler;O.E. Favreau

  • Specific deficits of flicker sensitivity in glaucoma and ocular hypertension.

    C W Tyler

  • Psychophysical isolation of movement sensitivity by removal of familiar position cues.

    Ken Nakayama;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Symmetry activates extrastriate visual cortex in human and nonhuman primates

    Yuka Sasaki;Wim Vanduffel;Tamara Knutsen;Christopher Tyler

  • Development of contrast sensitivity in the human infant.

    Anthony M. Norcia;Christopher W. Tyler;Russell D. Hamer

  • Sensory processing of binocular disparity

    C. W. Tyler

  • Rapid assessment of visual function: an electronic sweep technique for the pattern visual evoked potential.

    Christopher W. Tyler;Patricia Apkarian;Dennis M. Levi;Ken Nakayama

  • The Foveal Confluence in Human Visual Cortex

    Mark M. Schira;Christopher W. Tyler;Michael Breakspear;Branka Spehar

  • Signal detection theory in the 2AFC paradigm: attention, channel uncertainty and probability summation.

    Christopher W. Tyler;Chien-Chung Chen

  • Direction Selectivity of Synaptic Potentials in Simple Cells of the Cat Visual Cortex

    Bharathi Jagadeesh;Heidi Sue Wheat;Leonid L. Kontsevich;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Spatio-temporal properties of Panum's fusional area.

    Clifton M. Schor;Clifton M. Schor;Christopher W. Tyler;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Measurement of spatial contrast sensitivity with the swept contrast VEP

    Anthony M. Norcia;Christopher W. Tyler;Russell D. Hamer;Wolfgang Wesemann

  • Human Symmetry Perception and Its Computational Analysis

    Christopher W. Tyler

  • Predominantly extra-retinotopic cortical response to pattern symmetry.

    Christopher W. Tyler;Heidi A. Baseler;Leonid L. Kontsevich;Lora T. Likova

  • New look at Bloch's law for contrast.

    Andrei Gorea;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Analysis of visual modulation sensitivity. II. Peripheral retina and the role of photoreceptor dimensions.

    Christopher W. Tyler

  • Failure of rivalry at low contrast: Evidence of a suprathreshold binocular summation process

    Lei Liu;Christopher W. Tyler;Clifton M. Schor

  • Two-Dimensional Mapping of the Central and Parafoveal Visual Field to Human Visual Cortex

    Mark M. Schira;Alex R. Wade;Christopher W. Tyler

  • Analysis of visual modulation sensitivity. III. Meridional variations in peripheral flicker sensitivity.

    Christopher W. Tyler

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony M. Norcia
Anthony M. Norcia Stanford University
Ken Nakayama
Ken Nakayama Harvard University
Stanley A. Klein
Stanley A. Klein University of California, Berkeley
Clifton M. Schor
Clifton M. Schor University of California, Berkeley
Andrew B. Watson
Andrew B. Watson Apple (United States)
Bela Julesz
Bela Julesz Nokia (United States)
Dennis M. Levi
Dennis M. Levi University of California, Berkeley
Michael Breakspear
Michael Breakspear University of Newcastle Australia
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran University of California, San Diego
Patrick Cavanagh
Patrick Cavanagh York University

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