Rüdiger von der Heydt publications

Qiu FT, Sugihara T, von der Heydt R (2007) Figure-ground mechanisms provide structure for selective attention. Nat Neurosci 10: 1492-1499. PDF

Qiu FT, von der Heydt R (2007) Neural representation of transparent overlap. Nat Neurosci 10: 283-284. PDF

von der Heydt R, Pierson R (2006) Dissociation of color and figure–ground effects in the watercolor illusion. Spat Vis 19: 323-340. PDF

von der Heydt R, Macuda TJ, Qiu FT (2005) Border-ownership dependent tilt aftereffect. J Opt Soc Am (A) 22: 2222-2229. PDF

Qiu FT, von der Heydt R (2005) Figure and ground in the visual cortex: V2 combines stereoscopic cues with Gestalt rules. Neuron 47: 155-166. PDF

Friedman HS, Zhou H, von der Heydt R (2003) The coding of uniform color figures in monkey visual cortex. J Physiol (Lond) 548: 593-613. PDF

von der Heydt R, Friedman HS, Zhou H (2003) Searching for the neural mechanisms of color filling-in. In: Filling-in: From Perceptual Completion to Cortical Reorganization (Pessoa L, De Weerd P, eds), pp 106-127. Oxford: Oxford University Press. PDF

von der Heydt R (2003) Image parsing mechanisms of the visual cortex. In: The Visual Neurosciences (Werner JS, Chalupa LM, eds), pp 1139-1150. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT press. PDF

von der Heydt R, Zhou H, Friedman HS (2003) Neural coding of border ownership: Implications for the theory of figure-ground perception. In: Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives (Behrmann M, Kimchi R, Olson CR, eds), pp 281-304. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. PDF

von der Heydt R, Zhou H, Friedman HS (2000) Representation of stereoscopic edges in monkey visual cortex. Vision Research 40: 1955-1967. PDF

Zhou H, Friedman HS, von der Heydt R (2000) Coding of border ownership in monkey visual cortex. J Neuroscience 20: 6594-6611. PDF

Friedman HS, Zhou H, von der Heydt R (1999) Color filling-in under steady fixation: Behavioral demonstration in monkeys and humans. Perception 28: 1383-1395.

Heitger F, von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Rosenthaler L, Kübler O (1998) Simulation of neural contour mechanisms: representing anomalous contours. Image and Vision Computing 16: 409-423. PDF

von der Heydt R (1994) Form analysis in visual cortex. In: The Cognitive Neurosciences (Gazzaniga MS, ed), pp 365-382. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Heitger F, von der Heydt R (1993) A computational model of neural contour processing: figure-ground segregation and illusory contours. In: Proc. 4th Int. Conf. Computer Vision pp 32-40. Washington D.C.: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1993) Functional organization of area V2 in the alert macaque. Eur J Neuroscience 5: 509-524.

von der Heydt R, Heitger F, Peterhans E (1993) Perception of occluding contours: Neural mechanisms and a computational model. Biomedical Research 14, suppl. 4: 1-6.

Heitger F, Rosenthaler L, von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Kübler O (1992) Simulation of neuronal contour mechanisms: from simple to endstopped cells. Vision Res 32: 963-981.

Rosenthaler L, Heitger F, Kübler O, von der Heydt R (1992) Detektion von ein- und zwei-dimensionalen Bildstrukturen in komplexen Grauwertbildern. In: Mustererkennung 1992 (Fuchs SHR, ed), pp 290-298. Berlin: Springer.

Rosenthaler L, Heitger F, Kübler O, von der Heydt R (1992) Detection of general edges and keypoints. In: Proc. Computer Vision - ECCV'92 pp 78-86. Berlin: Springer.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Dürsteler MR (1992) Periodic-pattern-selective cells in monkey visual cortex. J Neuroscience 12: 1416-1434.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1991) Elements of form perception in monkey prestriate cortex. In: Representations of Vision: Trends and Tacit Assumptions in Vision Research (Gorea A, Fregnac Y, Kapoula Z, Findlay J, eds), pp 111-124. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1991) Subjective contours -- Bridging the gap between psychophysics and physiology. Trends in Neurosciences 14: 112-119.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Dürsteler MR (1991) Grating cells in monkey visual cortex: coding texture? In: Channels in the Visual Nervous System: Neurophysiology, Psychophysics and Models (Blum B, ed), pp 53-73. London: Freund.

Treisman A, Cavanagh P, Fischer B, Ramachandran VS, von der Heydt R (1990) Form perception and attention: Striate cortex and beyond. In: Visual Perception: The Neurophysiological Foundations (Spillmann L, Werner JS, eds), pp 273-316. New York: Academic.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Baumgartner G (1990) Neuronal processing of contours. News in Physiological Sciences 5: 152-155.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1989) The whole and the pieces -- cortical neuron responses to bars and rows of moving dots. In: Seeing Contour and Colour (Kulikowski JJ, Dickinson CM, Murray IJ, eds), pp 125-130. Oxford: Pergamon.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1989) Mechanisms of contour perception in monkey visual cortex. II. Contours bridging gaps. J Neuroscience 9: 1749-1763.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E (1989) Ehrenstein and Zöllner Illusions in a neuronal theory of contour processing. In: Seeing Contour and Colour (Kulikowski JJ, Dickinson CM, Murray IJ, eds), pp 729-734. Oxford: Pergamon.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E (1989) Cortical contour mechanisms and geometrical illusions. In: Neural mechanisms of visual perception (Lam DMK, Gilbert CD, eds), pp 157-170. The Woodlands: Portfolio Publishing.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E (1989) Mechanisms of contour perception in monkey visual cortex. I. Lines of pattern discontinuity. J Neuroscience 9: 1731-1748.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Baumgartner G (1988) Illusory contours and cortical neuron responses. In: Natural Computation (Richards W, ed), pp 70-75. Cambridge: Bradford Book MIT Press.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E (1988) Contour processing in primate visual cortex. In: Mustererkennung 1988 (Bunke H, Kübler O, Stucki P, eds), pp 111-127. Berlin: Springer.

Baumgartner G, Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1987) Neuronal mechanisms of the first, second, and third order contrast in the visual system. In: Computational Systems - Natural and Artificial (Haken H, ed), pp 35-43. Berlin: Springer.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R (1987) The role of end-stopped receptive fields in contour perception. In: New Frontiers in Brain Research: Proceedings of the 15th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference (Elsner N, Creutzfeldt O, eds), pp 29. Stuttgart: Thieme.

von der Heydt R (1987) Approaches to visual cortical function. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 108: 69-150.

Peterhans E, von der Heydt R, Baumgartner G (1986) Neuronal responses to illusory contour stimuli reveal stages of visual cortical processing. In: Visual Neuroscience (Pettigrew JD, Sanderson KJ, Levick WR, eds), pp 343-351. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Baumgartner G, von der Heydt R, Peterhans E (1984) Anomalous contours: A tool in studying the neurophysiology of vision. Exp Brain Res suppl.9: 413-419.

von der Heydt R, Peterhans E, Baumgartner G (1984) Illusory contours and cortical neuron responses. Science 224: 1260-1262.

Dürsteler MR, von der Heydt R (1983) Plasticity in the binocular correspondence of striate cortical receptive fields in kittens. J Physiol (Lond) 345: 87-105.

Hänny P, von der Heydt R (1982) The effect of horizontal-plane environment on the development of binocular receptive fields of cells in cat visual cortex. J Physiol (Lond) 329: 75-92.

von der Heydt R, Hänny P, Dürsteler MR (1981) The role of orientation disparity in stereoscopic perception and the development of binocular correspondence. In: Sensory Functions (Grastyán E, Molnár P, eds), pp 461-470. London: Pergamon.

von der Heydt R (1979) Stereoskopische Wahrnehmung der Orientierungsdisparation. Experimentelle Untersuchung zum Nachweis eines neuen stereoskopischen Mechanismus. Thesis. Zürich: ETH, Swiss Fed. Inst. Tech.

von der Heydt R, Hänny P, Adorjani C (1978) Movement aftereffects in the visual cortex. Arch Ital Biol 116: 248-254.

von der Heydt R, Adorjani C, Hänny P, Baumgartner G (1978) Disparity sensitivity and receptive field incongruity of units in the cat striate cortex. Exp Brain Res 31: 523-545.