Scott Beardsley, Ph.D. Brain and Vision Research Laboratory Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University 44 Cummington St. Boston MA, 02215 (617) 353-9144 (617) 358-0731 (fax) sbeardsl@bu.edu Education: Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Boston University B.S. in Physics & Mathematics (summa cum laude), University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Current Research
 

Beardsley, S.A. (2001), Complex motion processing mechanisms in the posterior parietal lobe: psychophysics and computational modeling, Boston University, Boston, MA, pp. 321. [abstract]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M., Psychophysical evidence for a radial motion bias in complex motion discrimination, Vision Res., (in press).

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2005), How can a patient blind to radial motion discriminate shifts in the center-of-motion?, J. Comput. Neurosci., 18, 55-66.

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2004), A Functional Architecture for Motion Pattern Processing in MSTd, In: Thrun S, Saul K, and Scholkopf B (Eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, The MIT Press, pp. 1451-1458. [pdf]

Beardsley, S.A., Ward, R. L., & Vaina, L.M. (2003), A neural network model of spiral-planar motion tuning in MSTd, Vision Res., 43, 577-595. [abstract] [pdf]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2001), A laterally interconnected neural architecture in MST accounts for psychophysical discrimination of complex motion patterns, J. Comput. Neurosci., 10, 255-280. [abstract] [pdf]

Clifford, C.W.G., Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (1999), The perception and discrimination of speed in complex motion, Vision Res., 39, 2213-2227. [abstract] [pdf]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (1998), Computational modeling of optic flow selectivity in MSTd neurons, Network: Comput. Neural Syst., 9, 467-493. [abstract ] [pdf]

Optic Flow and Beyond. (2004), Vaina L. M., Beardsley, S.A., & Rushton, S. (Eds.), Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 528. [abstract]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2004), Linking perception and neurophysiology: the computational power of inhibitory connections in cortex, In: Vaina L.M., Beardsley S.A., and Rushton S. (Eds.), Optic Flow and Beyond, Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 183-221. [pdf]

Sundareswaran V., Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2004), Fast processing of image motion patterns arising from 3-D translational motion, In: Vaina L.M., Beardsley S.A., and Rushton S. (Eds.), Optic Flow and Beyond, Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 273-287. [pdf]

Vaina L. M. and Beardsley S. A. (2003), Optic Flow, In: Adelman G., and Smith B. H. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 3rd ed., Elsevier Science.

Beardsley, S. A., Vaina, L. M. (2004), Improved complex motion discrimination in a patient with a bilateral occipital lobe lesion, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Fl., p. 236. [abstract]

Calabro, F. J., Beardsley, S. A., Vaina, L. M. (2004), Effects of disparity and noise on motion transparency, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Fl., p. 236. [abstract]

Beardsley, S. A., Vaina, L. M. (2003), A Functional Architecture for Motion Pattern Processing in MSTd, Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. [abstract]

Sikoglu, E., Beardsley, S. A., Vaina, L. M. (2003), A generalized mathematical model of feed-forward neural structures in the MT-MST complex, Seventh International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston MA, p 20. [abstract]

Beardsley, S. A., & Vaina, L. M. (2002), Discrimination of shifted centers-of-motion in a patient that cannot perceive radial motion, Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota FL, p 226. [abstract]

Kao, W.Y., Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2002), Perceptual learning of motion pattern discrimination: Psychophysics and computational modeling, Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota FL, p 30. [abstract]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2001), Psychophysical evidence for a relative object motion mechanism in humans, Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthal., 42(4), S618. [abstract]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (2000), Processing relative object motion in complex patterns of motion, Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthal., 41(4), S722. [abstract ] poster (.pdf)] >

Beardsley, S.A. , Clifford, C.W.G., & Vaina, L.M. (1999), Discrimination of complex motion patterns is consistent with an interconnected population code in MST, Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthal., 40(4), S422. [abstract] [poster (.pdf)]

Vaina, L.M., Jakab, M., Beardsley, S.A., & Zamani, A. (1999), Impaired complex motion perception in patients with bilateral posterior parietal lesions, Assoc .Res. Vis. Ophthal., 40(4), S765.

Beardsley, S.A., Clifford, C.W.G., & Vaina, L.M. (1998), Discrimination of shifted centers of motion in complex stimuli, Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthal., 39(4), S621. [abstract]

Beardsley, S.A., & Vaina, L.M. (1997), Computational modeling of optic flow selectivity in MSTd neurons, Assoc. Res. Vis. Ophthal., 38(4), S80. [abstract]

Beardsley, S.A., Vaina, L. M., & Poggio, T. (1996), The development of optic flow selectivity in MSTd neurons using back-propagation networks, Soc. Neurosci., 22(1), 1619. [abstract]