| Education:
B.A. Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania 1984
M.A., Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, New York University
1986, 1990
Research Interests:
Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of the mammalian visual
system Cerebral cortex organization
Visual perception
Teaching Interests:
Undergraduate - Organismic Biology, Physiology,
Neurobiology
Graduate - Neuroscience, Sensory Physiology, Vision
Select Publications:
Levitt, J.B., Yoshioka, T. and Lund, J.S. 1994. Intrinsic
cortical connections in macaque visual area V2: evidence
for interaction between different functional
streams. J. Comp. Neurol. 342:551-570.
Yoshioka, T., Blasdel, G.G., Levitt, J.B. and Lund,
J.S. 1996. Relation between
patterns of intrinsic lateral connectivity, ocular
dominance, and cytochrome
oxidase-reactive regions in macaque monkey striate
cortex. Cereb. Cortex 6:297-310.
Gegenfurtner, K.R., Kiper, D.C., and Levitt, J.B.
1997. Functional properties of neurons in macaque area
V3. J. Neurophysiol. 77: 1906-1923.
Levitt, J.B. and Lund, J.S. 1997. Contrast dependence of
contextual effects in primate visual cortex. Nature 387:
73-76.
Adorjan, P., Levitt, J.B., Lund, J.S., and Obermayer,
K. 1999. A model for the intracortical origin of
orientation preference and tuning in
macaque striate cortex. Vis. Neurosci. 16: 303-318.
Levitt, J.B. and Lund, J.S. Intrinsic connections in
mammalian cerebral cortex.
In Cortical areas: unity and diversity (eds. A. Schuez
and R. Miller). Harwood
Academic Publishers, Reading UK, in press.
Other Interests:
Link to my home page www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~jbl/
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