Publications Rust NC, Mante V, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA (2006) How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns. Nature Neuroscience, 11:1421-1431. Supplementary material (stimulus). News and views by Tao Zhang and Ken Britten: The virtue of simplicity. Schwartz O, Pillow JP, Rust NC and Simocelli EP (2006) Spike-triggered neural characterization. Journal of Vision 6:484-507. Rust NC and Movshon JA (2005) In praise of artifice. Nature Neuroscience 8: 1647-1649 Carandini M, Demb JB, Mante V, Tolhurst DJ, Dan Y, Olshausen BA, Gallant JL, Rust NC (2005) Do we know what the early visual system does? Journal of Neuroscience 25, 10577-10597 Rust NC, Schwartz O, Movshon JA, Simoncelli EP (2005) Spatiotemporal elements of macaque V1 receptive fields. Neuron 46: 945-956. Preview by Jose-Manuel Alonso: Building better models of visual cortical recepive fields. Rust NC, Schwartz O, Movshon JA, Simoncelli EP (2004) Spike-triggered characterization of excitatory and suppressive stimulus dimensions in monkey directionally selective neurons. NeuroComputing: 58-60: 793-799. (CNS conference proceedings). Sharpee T, Rust NC, Bialek W (2003) Analyzing neural responses to natural signals: Maximally informative dimensions. Neural Computation 16(2) 223-250. Rust NC, Schultz SR, Movshon JA (2002) A reciprocal relationship between reliability and responsiveness in developing cortical neurons. Journal of Neuroscience 15:10519-10523.