Karen R. Dobkins, Ph.D.

VISION PUBLICATIONS:

Dobkins, K.R. & Albright, T.D. (1993). What happens if it changes color when it moves?: Psychophysical experiments on the nature of chromatic input to motion detectors. Vision Research, 33(8), 1019-1036.

Dobkins, K.R. & Albright, T.D. (1993). Color, luminance and the detection of visual motion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2(6),189-193.

Dobkins, K.R. & Albright, T.D. (1994). What happens if it changes color when it moves?: The nature of chromatic input to macaque visual area MT. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(8), 4854-4870.

Dobkins, K.R. & Albright, T.D. (1995). Neural and behavioral effects of chromatic isoluminance in the macaque visual motion system. Visual Neuroscience, 12(2), 321-332.

Dobkins, K.R. & Teller, D.Y. (1996). Infant contrast detectors are selective for direction of motion. Vision Research, 36(2), 281-294.

Dobkins, K.R. & Teller, D.Y. (1996). Infant motion:detection (M:D) ratios for chromatically-defined and luminance-defined moving stimuli. Vision Research, 36(20), 3293-3310.

Dobkins, K.R., Lia, B. & Teller, D.Y. (1997). Infant color vision: Temporal contrast sensitivity functions (tCSFs) for chromatically-defined stimuli in 3-month-olds. Vision Research, 37(19), 2699-2716.

 

Dobkins, K.R. & Albright, T.D. (1998).  The influence of chromatic information on visual motion processing in the primate visual system (Book Chapter in T. Watanabe (ed.) High-level motion processing-Computational, Neurobiological and psychophysical Perspectives, MIT Press, Cambridge: pp. 53-94.

Dobkins, K.R., Stoner, G.R. & Albright, T.D. (1998). Perceptual, oculomotor and neural responses to moving color plaids.  Perception, 27(6), 681-709.

Lia B, Dobkins KR, Palmer J & Teller DY (1999). Infants code the direction of chromatic quadrature motion. Vision Research, 39(10): 1783-1794.

Bosworth RG & Dobkins KR (1999). Left hemisphere dominance for motion processing in deaf signers. Psychological Science, 10 (3): 256-262.

Dobkins KR, Anderson CM & Lia B (1999). Infant temporal contrast sensitivity functions (tCSFs) mature earlier for luminance than for chromatic stimuli: Evidence for precocious magnocellular development? Vision Research, 39(19), 3223-3239.

Thiele A, Dobkins KR & Albright TD (1999). The contribution of color to motion processing in macaque area MT. Journal of Neuroscience, 19(15), 6571-6587.

Dobkins KR, Thiele A & Albright TD (2000). Comparison of red-green equiluminance points in humans and macaques: evidence for different L:M ratios between species.  Journal of the Optical Society of America, 17, 545-556.

Dobkins KR, Gunther KL & Peterzell DH (2000). What covariance mechanisms underlie green-red equiluminance, chromatic contrast sensitivity and luminance contrast sensitivity? Vision Research,40(6), 613-628.

Dobkins, KR (2000).  Moving Colors in the Lime Light. Neuron, 25, 15-18.

Thiele A, Dobkins KR & Albright TD (2000).  Neural correlates of contrast detection at threshold. Neuron, 26, 715-724.

Finney E & Dobkins KR (2001). Visual contrast sensitivity in deaf vs. hearing populations:  Exploring the perceptual consequences of auditory deprivation and experience with a visual language.  Cognitive Brain Research, 11, 171-183.

Banton T, Dobkins KR & Bertenthal BI (2001). Infant direction discrimination thresholds.  Vision Research, 41, 1049-1056.

Dobkins KR & Bosworth RG (2001). Effects of set-size and selective spatial attention on motion processing, Vision Research, 41, 1501-1517.

Dobkins KR, Anderson CM & Kelly, J. (2001). Development of psychophysically-derived detection contours  in L- and M- cone contrast space.  Vision Research, 41, 1791 - 1807.

Thiele A, Dobkins KR & Albright TD (2001).  Neural correlates of chromatic motion processing.  Neuron, 32, 351-8.

Finney, E., Fine, I & Dobkins, KR (2001).  Visual stimuli activate auditory cortex in the deaf.  Nature Neuroscience, 4(12), 1171 - 1173.

Dobkins KR & Anderson CM (2002). Color-based motion processing is stronger in infants than in adults.  Psychological Science.  13(1): 75 - 79.

Bosworth RG & Dobkins KR (2002a). The effects of spatial attention on motion processing in deaf signers, hearing signers, and hearing non-signers.  Brain and Cognition, 49(1), 152-169.

Bosworth RG & Dobkins KR (2002b).  Visual field asymmetries for motion processing in deaf and hearing signers.  Brain and Cognition, 49(1), 170-181.

Thiele A, Rezec A and Dobkins KR (2002). Chromatic input to motion processing in the absence of attention. Vision Research, 42, 11, 1395- 1401.

Gunther KL & Dobkins KR (2002).  Individual differences in chromatic (red/green) contrast sensitivity are constrained by the relative number of L- and M- cones in the eye. Vision Research, 42, 11, 1367- 1378.

Gunther KL & Dobkins KR (2003). Independence of mechanisms tuned along cardinal and non-cardinal axes of color space: Evidence from factor analysis.  Vision Research, 43, 683-696.

Bosworth RG Wright CE, Bartlett MS, Corina DP, & Dobkins KR (2003). Characterization of the visual properties of spatial frequency and speed in ASL signs. In Cross-Linguistic Perspectives in Sign Language Research. Selected Papers from TISLR 2000. A. E. Baker, B. van den Bogaerde & O. Crasborn (eds) Signum Press, Hamburg. (p. 265 – 282).

Finney E, Clementz BA, Hickok G & Dobkins KR (2003). Visual stimuli activate auditory cortex in deaf subjects: Evidence from magnetoencephalography. NeuroReport, 14, 1425-1427.

Dobkins KR & Albright TD (2004). Merging Processing Streams: Color Cues for Motion Detection and Interpretation.  Book Chapter in L. Chalupa, J. Werner (ed.) The Visual Neurosciences, MIT Press, Cambridge. pp. 1217 – 1228.

Dobkins KR, Fine I, Hseuh A & Vitten C (2004).  Pattern motion integration in infants. Journal of Vision, 4, 144-155.

Pashler H, Dobkins, KR, Huang L (2004). Is contrast just another feature for visual selective attention? Vision Research, 44, 1403-10.

Fine I, Anderson CM, Boynton G, Dobkins KR (2004). The invariance of directional tuning with contrast and coherence. Vision Research, 44: 903 - 913.

Rezec AA, Krekelberg B and Dobkins KR (2004). Attention Enhances Adaptability: Evidence from Motion Adaptation Experiments. Vision Research, 44, 3035-3044.

Rezec AA and Dobkins KR (2004). Attentional Weighting: A Possible Account of Visual Field Asymmetries in Visual Search? Spatial Vision, 17, 269-293.

Huang L & Dobkins, KR (2005). Attentional Effects on Contrast Discrimination in Humans: Evidence for both Contrast Gain and Response Gain, Vision Research, 45, 1201- 1212.

Dobkins KR (2005). Enhanced Red/Green Color Input to Motion Processing in Infancy: Evidence for Increasing Dissociation of Color and Motion Information during Development. Book Chapter in Yuko Munakata and Mark Johnson (eds) Attention and Performance XXI. Oxford University Press, pp. 401-423.

Rezec A and Dobkins KR (2005). Attentional Effects on Motion Processing.  Book Chapter in Laurent Itti, Geraint Rees, and John Tsotsos (eds) Neurobiology of Attention, Academic Press / Elsevier, pp.490 - 495.

Fine I, Finney EM, Boynton GM & Dobkins KR (2005). Comparing the Effects of Auditory Deprivation and Sign Language within the Auditory and Visual Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(10): 1621-1637.

Gunther KL & Dobkins KR (2005). Induction Effects for Heterochromatic Flicker Photometry (HFP), Heterochromatic Brightness Matching (HBM), and Minimally Distinct Border (MDB): Implications for the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Induction. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 22(10), 2182-2196.

Bosworth RG, Bartlett MS & Dobkins KR (2006). Image Statistics of American Sign Language: Comparison to Faces and Natural Scenes. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 23(9), 2085 - 2096.

Dobkins KR, Lewis LB & Fine I (2006). Integration of 1D and 2D motion signals in infants: Evidence from the barber pole illusion. Vision Research, 46, 3360 – 3372.

Dobkins KR, Rezec AA & Krekelberg (2007). Effects of Spatial Attention and Salience Cues on Chromatic and Achromatic Motion Processing. Vision Research, 47, 1893-1906.

McCleery JP, Allman E, Carver LJ & Dobkins KR (2007). Abnormal Magnocellular (M) pathway visual processing in infants at risk for Autism. Biological Psychiatry, 62(9), 1007-14.

Clementz BA, McDowell JE & Dobkins KR (2007). Compromised speed discrimination among schizophrenia patients when viewing smooth pursuit targets. Schizophrenia Research, 95, 61-64.

Dobkins KR & Sampath, V (2008). The use of chromatic information for motion segmentation: Differences between psychophysical and eye movement measures. Perception, 37, 993-1009.

ALZHEIMERíS PUBLICATIONS:

Saitoh, T. & Dobkins, K.R. (1986). Increased in vitro phosphorylation of an Mr 60,000 protein in brain from patients with Alzheimer disease. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 83, 9764-9767.

Saitoh, T. & Dobkins, K.R. (1986). Protein Kinase C in human brain and its inhibition by calmodulin. Brain Research, 379, 196-199.

Saitoh T., Hansen L.A., Dobkins K.R. & Terry R.D. (1988). Increased Mr 60,000 protein phosphorylation is correlated with neocortical neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, 47, 1-8.

Cole, G., Dobkins, K.R., Hansen, L.A., Terry, R.D. & Saitoh, T. (1988). Decreased levels of Protein Kinase C in Alzheimer brain. Brain Research, 254, 165-174.