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Selected Publications: Beardsley SA., Vaina LM. (2008). "An effect of relative motion on trajectory discrimination." Vision Research, 48 :1040-1052. [pdf] Calabro FJ, Vaina LM. (2006). "Stereo motion transparency processing implements an ecological smoothness constraint." Perception, 35(9) :1219-1232. [pdf] Cowey A, Campana G, Walsh V, Vaina LM. (2006). "The role of human extra-striate visual areas V5/MT and V2/V3 in the perception of the direction of global motion: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study." Exp Brain Res., 171(4) :558-562. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (2006). "Global motion mechanisms compensate local motion deficits in a patient with a bilateral occipital lobe lesion." Exp Brain Res., 173(4) :724-732. [pdf] Vaina LM, Cowey A, Jakab M, Kikinis R. (2005). "Deficits of motion integration and segregation in patients with unilateral extrastriate lesions." Brain, 128(Pt 9) :2134-2145. [pdf] Michels L, Lappe M, Vaina LM. (2005). "Visual ares involved in the perception of human movement from dynamic form analysis." Neuroreport, 16(10) :1037-1041. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (2005). "How can a patient blind to radial motion discriminate shifts in the center-of-motion?" J Comput Neurosci., 18(1) :55-66. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (2005). "Psychophysical evidence for a radial motion bias in complex motion discrimination." Vision Research, 45(12) :1569-1586. [pdf] Vaina LM, Gross CG. (2004). "Perceptual deficits in patients with impaired recognition of biological motion after temporal lobe lesions." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 101(48): 16947-16951. [pdf] Royden CS, Vaina LM. (2004). "Is precise discrimination of low level motion needed for heading discrimination?" Neuroreport, 15(6): 1013-1017. [pdf] Vaina LM, Soloviev S. (2004). "First-order and second-order motion: neurological evidence for neuroanatomically distinct systems." In Milner D, Heywood C (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research 144, Elsevier, pp. 197-212. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (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] Optic Flow and Beyond. (2004). Vaina LM, Beardsley SA, Rushton S (Eds.), Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press. [abstract] Vaina LM, Soloviev S. (2004). "Functional neuroanatomy of self-motion perception in humans." In Vaina LM, Beardsley SA, Rushton S (Eds.), Optic Flow and Beyond, Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 109-137. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (2004). "Linking perception and neurophysiology: the computational power of inhibitory connections in cortex." In Vaina LM, Beardsley SA, Rushton S (Eds.), Optic Flow and Beyond, Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 183-221. [pdf] Sundareswaran V, Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (2004). "Fast processing of image motion patterns arising from 3-D translational motion." In Vaina LM, Beardsley SA, Rushton S (Eds.), Optic Flow and Beyond, Synthese Library, Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 273-287. [pdf] Vaina LM, Giulianini F. (2003). "Predicting motion: A psychophysical study." In: Hecht H and Savelbergh G (Eds.), Time-to-Contact, Elsevier Publishing Company, pp. 53-67. [pdf] Vaina LM, Beardsley SA. (2004). "Optic Flow." In Adelman G, Smith BH (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 3rd Ed, Elsevier. Vaina LM, Gryzwacz NM, Saiviroonporn P, LeMay M, Bienfang DC, Cowey A. (2003). "Can spatio-temporal motion integration overcome deficits in local motion mechanisms?" Neuropsychologia, 41: 1817-1836. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Ward RL, Vaina LM. (2003). "A neural network model of spiral-planar motion tuning in MSTd." Vision Research, 43(5): 577-595. [pdf] Vaina LM, Cowey A, LeMay M, Bienfang DC, Kikinis R. (2002). "Visual deficits in a patient with 'kaleidoscopic disintegration of the visual world'." Eur J Neurol., 9(5): 463-477. [pdf] Vaina LM. (2002). "Marr, David." In Nadel L (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Elsevier. [pdf] Edelman S, Vaina LM. (2001). "Marr, David (1945-80)." In Smelser NJ, Baltes PB (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 14: 9256-9258. Oxford: Pergamon. [pdf] Vaina LM, Solomon J, Chowdhury S, Sinha P, Belliveau JW. (2001). "Functional neuroanatomy of biological motion perception in humans." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 98(20): 11656-11661. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (2001). "A laterally interconnected neural architecture in MST accounts for psychophysical discrimination of complex motion patterns." J Comput Neurosci., 10(3): 255-280. [pdf] Vaina LM, Cowey A, Eskew RT Jr, LeMay M, Kemper T. (2001). "Regional cerebral correlates of global motion perception: evidence from unilateral cerebral brain damage." Brain, 124(Pt 2): 310-321. [pdf] Vaina LM, Soloviev S, Bienfang DC, Cowey A. (2000). "A lesion of cortical area V2 selectively impairs the perception of direction of first-order visual motion." Neuroreport, 11(5): 1039-1044. [pdf] Cowey A, Vaina LM. (2000). "Blindness to form from motion despite intact static form perception and motion detection." Neuropsychologia, 38(5): 566-578. [pdf] Vaina LM, Rushton SK. (2000). "What neurological patients tell us about the use of optic flow." Int Rev Neurobiol., 44: 293-313. [pdf] Clifford CW, Vaina LM. (1999). "Anomalous perception of coherence and transparency in moving plaid patterns." Brain Res Cogn Brain Res., 8(3): 345-353. [pdf] Clifford CW, Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (1999). "The perception and discrimination of speed in complex motion." Vision Research, 39(13): 2213-2227. [pdf] Clifford CW, Vaina LM. (1999). "A computational model of selective deficits in first- and second-order motion processing." Vision Research, 39(4): 113-130. [pdf] Vaina LM, Cowey A, Kennedy DK. (1999). "Perception of first- and second-order motion: separable neurological mechanisms?" Human Brain Mapping, 7: 67-77. [pdf] Beardsley SA, Vaina LM. (1998). "Computational modelling of optic flow selectivity in MSTd neurons." Network, 9(4): 467-493. [pdf] Vaina LM, Grzywacz NM, LeMay M, Bienfang D, Wolpow E. (1998). "Perception of motion discontinuities in patients with selective motion deficits." In Watanabe T (Ed.), High-level motion processing: computational, neurobiological, and psychophysical perspectives, MIT press, pp. 213-247. [pdf] Vaina LM, Belliveau JW, des Roziers EB, Zeffiro TA. (1998). "Neural systems underlying learning and representation of global motion." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 95(21): 12657-12662. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1998). "Complex motion perception and its deficits." Curr Opin Neurobiol., 8(4): 494-502. [pdf] Burr D, Morrone MC, Vaina LM. (1998). "Large receptive fields for optic flow detectors in humans." Vision Research, 38(12): 1731-1743. [pdf] Liu Z, Vaina LM. (1998). "Simultaneous learning of motion discrimination in two directions." Brain Res Cogn Brain Res, 6(4): 347-349. [pdf] Clifford CW, Freedman J, Vaina LM. (1998). "First- and second-order motion perception in Gabor micropattern stimuli: Psychophysical and computational modelling." Brain Res Cogn Brain Res., 6(4):263-271. [pdf] Vaina LM, Makris N, Kennedy D, Cowey A. (1998). "The selective impairment of the perception of first-order motion by unilateral cortical brain damage." Vis Neurosci., 15(2): 333-348. [pdf] Pitts RI, Sundareswaran V, Vaina LM. (1997). "A model of position-invariant, optic flow pattern selective cells", in Computational Neuroscience:Trends in Research 1997, New York: Plenum Publishing Corporation, 171-176. [pdf] Vaina LM, Sundareswaran V, Harris J. (1997). "Fast perceptual learning of motion in humans and neural networks." In: Greiner R et al (Eds.), Computational Learning Theory and Natural Learning Systems, MIT press, pp. 363-378. [pdf] Sundareswaran V, Vaina LM. (1996). "Adaptive computational models of fast learning of motion direction discrimination." Biol Cybern., 74(4): 319-329. [pdf] Vaina LM, Cowey A. (1996). "Impairment of the perception of second order motion but not first order motion in a patient with unilateral focal brain damage." Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci., 263(1374): 1225-1232. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1996). "Akinetopsia, achromatopsia and blindsight: recent studies on perception without awareness." Synthese, 105: 1-19. [pdf] Vaina LM, Sundareswaran V, Harris JG. (1995). "Learning to ignore: psychophysics and computational modeling of fast learning of direction in noisy motion stimuli." Cog. Brain Research, 2(3): 155-163. [pdf] Morrone MC, Burr DC, Vaina LM. (1995). "Two stages of visual processing for radial and circular motion." Nature, 376(6540): 507-509. [pdf] Liu Z, Vaina LM. (1995) "Stimulus specific learning: a consequence of stimulus specific experiments?" Perception, 24. [abstract] Sundareswaran V, Vaina LM. (1995). "Learning direction in global motion: two classes of psychophysically-motivated models." In: Touretzky D (Ed.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, The MIT Press, pp. 917-924. [pdf] Chou I, Vaina LM. (1995). "Two-dimenstional symmetric for discrimination: fast learning but not that fast." Synthese, 104: 33-41. [pdf] Vaina LM, Goodglass H, Daltroy L. (1995). "Inference of object use from pantomimed actions by aphasics and patients with right hemisphere lesions." Synthese, 104: 43-57. [pdf] Deligeorges S, Vaina LM. (1995). "Global motion discrimination using more physiological modified artificial neural networks." Canadian Journal of Neural Networks, 7: 509-511. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1994). "Functional segregation of color and motion processing in the human visual cortex: clinical evidence." Cerebral Cortex, 4(5): 555-572. [pdf] Vaina LM, Grzywacz NM, Kikinis R. (1994). "Segregation of computations underlying perception of motion discontinuity and coherence." Neuroreport, 5: 2289-2294. [pdf] Jaulent MC, Vaina LM. (1994). "An implementation of a model for functional recognition." International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 9: 379-402. [pdf] Vaina LM, Gryzwacz NM. (1992). "Testing computational thoeries of motion discontinuities: A psychophysical study." In: Sandini G (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science ECCV-92, 588, Springer-Verlag, pp. 212-217. [pdf] Vaina LM, Jaulent MC. (1991). "Object structure and action requirements: A compatibility model for functional recognition." International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 6: 313-336. [pdf] Vaina LM, Zlateva S. (1990). "The largest convex patches: A boundary-based method for obtaining object parts." Biological Cybernetics, 62: 225-236. [pdf] Vaina LM, Gryzwacz NM, LeMay M. (1990). "Structure from motion with impaired local-speed and global motion-field computations." Neural Computation, 2(4): 420-435. [pdf] Vaina LM, LeMay M, Bienfang D, Choi AY, Nakayama K. (1990). "Intact biological motion and structure from motion perception in a patient with impaired motion mechanisms: a case study." Visual Neuroscience, 5: 353-369. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1990). "'What' and 'Where' in the human visual system: two hierarchies of visual modules." Synthese, 83: 49-91. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1990). "Common functional pathways for texture and form vision: a single case study." Synthese, 83: 93-131. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1989). "Selective impairment of visual motion interpretation following lesions of the right occipito-parietal area in humans." Biological Cybernetics, 61: 347-359. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1987). "Visual texture for recognition." In: Vaina LM (Eds.), Matters of Intelligence, Reidel-Dodrecht, Holland, pp. 89-114. [pdf] Vaina LM, Bennour Y. (1985). "A computational approach to visual recognition of arm movements." Perception and Motor Skills, 60: 203-228. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1984). "Towards a computational model of semantic memory." In: Vaina LM, Hintikka J (Eds.), Cognitive Constraints on Communication: Representations and Processes, Reidel-Dodrecht, Holland, pp. 97-113. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1984). "The theory of possible worlds semantics in the study of texts." In: Halle M (Ed.), Semiosis, Michigan Slavic Studies,pp. 109-125. [pdf] Vaina LM. (1983). "From shapes and movements to objects and actions." Synthese, 54: 3-36. [pdf] Marr D, Vaina LM. (1982). "Representation and recognition of movements of shapes." Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci., 214(1197): 501-524. [pdf] Vaina LM, Greenblatt DG. (1979). "The use of thread memory in amnesic aphasia and concept learning." MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Note 0.[pdf] Copyright Notice: The documents distributed here have been provided as a means to ensure timely dissemination of scholarly and technical work on a noncommercial basis. 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