Horace Basil Barlow (1921–2020)

Barlow H. B. (1953a). Action potentials from the frog’s retina. The Journal of Physiology, 119, 58–68.

Barlow H. B. (1953b). Summation and inhibition in the frog's retina. The Journal of Physiology, 119, 69–88.

Barlow H. B. (1956). Retinal noise and absolute threshold. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 46, 634–639.

Barlow H. B. (1957a). Increment thresholds at low intensities considered as signal/noise discriminations. The Journal of Physiology, 136, 469–488.

Barlow H. B. (1957b). Noise and the visual threshold. Nature, 180, 1403–1405.

Barlow H. B. (1958). Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities. The Journal of Physiology, 141, 337–350.

Barlow H. B. (1959). Sensory mechanisms, the reduction of redundancy, and intelligence. In NPL Symposium on the mechanization of thought process (No. 10, pp. 535–539). H.M. Stationery Office.

Barlow H. B. (1961a). Possible principles underlying the transformations of sensory messages. Chapter 13. In: W. Rosenblith (Ed.), Sensory communication (pp. 217–234). M.I.T. Press.

Barlow H. B. (1961b). The coding of sensory messages. Chapter XIII. In W. H. Thorpe & O. L. Zangwill (Eds.), Current problems in animal behaviour (pp. 330–360). Cambridge University Press.

Barlow H. B. (1965). Optic nerve impulses and Weber's Law. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 30, 539–546.

Barlow H. B. (1969). Pattern recognition and the responses of sensory neurons. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 156, 872–881.

Barlow H. B. (1972). Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Perception, 1, 371–394.

Barlow H. B. (1990a). A theory about the functional role and synaptic mechanism of visual after-effects. In Blakemore C. (Ed.), Vision: Coding and efficiency (pp. 363–375). Cambridge University Press.

Barlow H. B. (1990b). The mechanical mind. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 13, 15–24.

Barlow H. B. Derrington A. M. Harris L. R. Lennie P. (1977). The effects of remote retinal stimulation on the responses of cat retinal ganglion cells. The Journal of Physiology, 269, 177–194.

Barlow H. B. Földiák P. (1989). Adaptation and decorrelation in the cortex. In Durbin R. Miall C. Mitchison G. (Ed.), The computing neuron (pp. 54–72). Addison-Wesley.

Barlow H. B. Hill R. M. (1963). Selective sensitivity to direction of movement in ganglion cells of the rabbit retina. Science, 139, 412–414.

Barlow H. B. Hill R. M. Levick W. R. (1964). Retinal ganglion cells responding selectively to direction and speed of image motion in the rabbit. The Journal of Physiology, 173, 377–407.

Barlow H. B. Levick W. R. (1965). The mechanism of directionally selective units in rabbit’s retina. The Journal of Physiology, 178, 477–504.

Barlow H. B. Levick W. R. (1969). Three factors limiting the reliable detection of light by retinal ganglion cells of the cat. The Journal of Physiology, 200, 1–24.

Barlow H. B. Levick W. R. Yoon M. (1971). Responses to single quanta of light in retinal ganglion cells of the cat. Vision Research, 11(Supplement No. 3), 87–101.

Barlow H. B. Narasimhan R. Rosenfeld A. (1972). Visual pattern analysis of machines and animals. Science, 177, 567–575.

Barlow H. B. Reeves B. (1979). The versatility and absolute efficiency of detecting mirror symmetry in random dot displays. Vision Research, 19, 783–793.

Barlow H. B. Tripathy S. P. (1997). Correspondence noise and signal pooling in the detection of coherent visual motion. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 7954–7966.

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Carandini M. Barlow H. B. O'Keefe L. P. Poirson A. B. Movshon J. A. (1997). Adaptation to contingencies in macaque primary visual cortex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 352, 1149–1154.

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Pelli D. G. (1990). The quantum efficiency of vision. In Blakemore C. (Ed.), Vision: Coding and efficiency (pp. 3–24). Cambridge University Press.

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Shadlen M. N. Britten K. H. Newsome W. T. Movshon J. A. (1996). A computational analysis of the relationship between neuronal and behavioral responses to visual motion. Journal of Neuroscience, 16, 1486–1510.

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