Abstracts and presentations Rust NC, DiCarlo JJ (2008) Concurrent increases in selectivity and tolerance produce constant sparseness across the ventral visual stream Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne). Movshon JA, Rust NC, Mante V, Simoncelli EP (2006) How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), St. Petersburg, Russia. Rust NC, Movshon JA In praise of artifice Cosyne 2006 Workshop: The role of natural images in guiding our understanding of visual function. Talk. Rust NC, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA. How MT cells compute pattern motion. Program No. 591.11. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2005. Talk. Rust NC, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA (2005). Neurons in MT compute pattern direction by pooling excitatory and suppressive inputs. Vision ScienceS (VSS). Journal of Vision, 5(8), 83a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/83/, doi:10.1167/5.8.83. Talk. Rust NC, Movshon JA, Simocnelli EP (2005) Subspace reverse correlation reveals a role for suppression in the computation of pattern direction motion in MT. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) workshop: New techniques in neural characterization. Talk. Rust NC, Sharpee T, Movshon JA, Simocelli EP (2004) Comparison of two spike-triggered techniques for neural characterization based on covariance and information measures. Gordon conference: Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment, Oxford, UK. Poster. Rust NC, Schwartz O, Simocelli EP, Movshon JA (2004) Unexpected spatio-temporal structure in V1 simple and complex cells revealed by spike-triggered covariance. Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Talk. Rust NC, Schwartz O, Simocelli EP, Movshon JA (2003) An analysis of spike-triggered covariance reveals suppressive mechanisms of directional selectivity in macaque V1 neurons. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Talk. Movshon JA, Rust NC, Kohn A, Kiorpes L, Hawken MJ (2003) Receptive field properties of MT neurons in infant macaques. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Rust NC, Schwartz O, Movshon JA, Simocelli EP (2003) Spike-triggered characterization of excitatory and suppressive stimulus dimensions in monkey directionally selective neurons. Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Alicante, Spain. Talk. Sharpee T, Rust NC, Bialek W (2002) Maximally informative dimensions: analyzing neural responses to natural signals. in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, (NIPS proceedings) edited by S. Becker, S. Thrun and K. Obermayer, pp. 261-268 (MIT Press, Cambridge 2003). pdf Rust NC, Majaj NJ, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA (2002) Gain control in macaque area MT is directionally selective. Society for Neuroscience. Poster Rust NC, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA (2002) Inhibitory interactions in MT receptive fields. Vision ScienceS (VSS). Journal of Vision, 2(7), 413a, http://journalofovision.org/2/7/413/. Talk