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  1. Dynamics of efficient ensemble coding

    Article • Cognition, June 2026, Elsevier

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  2. The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  3. Confirmation bias through selective readout of information encoded in human parietal cortex

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  4. A linear perception-action mapping accounts for response range-dependent biases in heading estimation from optic flow

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2025, PLOS

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  5. The tilt illusion arises from an efficient reallocation of neural coding resources at the contextual boundary

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, April 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  6. Adaptation optimizes sensory encoding for future stimuli

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2025, PLOS

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  7. Dynamics of efficient ensemble coding

    Article • December 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  8. The tilt illusion arises from an efficient reallocation of neural coding resources at the contextual boundary

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  9. Confirmation Bias through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex

    Article • June 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  10. A linear perception-action mapping accounts for response range-dependent biases in heading estimation from optic flow

    Article • May 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  11. Adaptation optimizes sensory encoding of future stimuli

    Article • March 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  12. Sensory perception is a holistic inference process.

    Article • Psychological Review, February 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  13. Efficient sensory encoding predicts robust averaging

    Article • Cognition, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  14. Efficient neural codes naturally emerge through gradient descent learning

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  15. Holistic inference explains human perception of stimulus orientation

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  16. Efficient Sensory Encoding Predicts Robust Averaging

    Article • May 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  17. Erratum: Zhang and Stocker, “Prior Expectations in Visual Speed Perception Predict Encoding Characteristics of Neurons in Area MT”

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, May 2022, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  18. Efficient neural codes naturally emerge through gradient descent learning

    Article • May 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  19. Prior Expectations in Visual Speed Perception Predict Encoding Characteristics of Neurons in Area MT

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, February 2022, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  20. Prior expectations in visual speed perception predict encoding characteristics of neurons in area MT

    Article • August 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  21. Categorical judgments do not modify sensory representations in working memory

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2021, PLOS

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  22. Individuals with autism spectrum disorder have altered visual encoding capacity

    Article • PLoS Biology, May 2021, PLOS

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  23. Benefits of commitment in hierarchical inference.

    Article • Psychological Review, July 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  24. Categorical judgments do not modify sensory information in working memory

    Article • June 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  25. Aberrant Sensory Encoding in Patients with Autism

    Article • March 2020, openRxiv

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  26. Benefits of commitment in hierarchical inference

    Article • June 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  27. Post-decision biases reveal a self-consistency principle in perceptual inference

    Article • eLife, May 2018, eLife

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  28. Credo for optimality

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  29. High- to low-level decoding does not generally improve perceptual performance

    Article • December 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  30. Visual Decision-Making in an Uncertain and Dynamic World

    Article • Annual Review of Vision Science, September 2017, Annual Reviews

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  31. Lawful relation between perceptual bias and discriminability

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  32. Choice-induced biases in visually perceived numerosity

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2017, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  33. A new law of human perception

    Article • December 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  34. Efficient Neural Codes That Minimize Lp Reconstruction Error

    Article • Neural Computation, December 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  35. A new law defining the relationship between perceptual bias and discrimination threshold

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2016, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  36. Making a categorical decision does not modify the stimulus representation in working memory

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2016, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  37. Choice-induced biases in perception

    Article • March 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  38. Mutual Information, Fisher Information, and Efficient Coding

    Article • Neural Computation, February 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  39. A Bayesian observer model constrained by efficient coding can explain 'anti-Bayesian' percepts

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, September 2015, Nature

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  40. Humans maintain probabilistic belief states when tracking occluded objects

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  41. Perceptual adaptation: Getting ready for the future

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  42. The decision, not the decision task, causes perceptual biases away from the decision boundary

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  43. Signal Integration in Human Visual Speed Perception

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, June 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  44. Optimal combination of multiple spatiotemporal frequency cues in human visual speed perception

    Article • Journal of Vision, December 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  45. Characterizing the Impact of Category Uncertainty on Human Auditory Categorization Behavior

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, July 2014, PLOS

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  46. Dynamic belief state representations

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  47. A new two-alternative forced choice method for the unbiased characterization of perceptual bias and discriminability

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  48. S4-4: Optimal Signal Integration across Spatiotemporal Frequency Channels in Visual Speed Perception

    Article • i-Perception, October 2012, Pion Ltd

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  49. Bayesian Inference with Efficient Neural Population Codes

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  50. Optimal signal integration across spatiotemporal frequency channels accounts for perceived visual speed

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  51. Optimal inference explains the perceptual coherence of visual motion stimuli

    Article • Journal of Vision, May 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  52. Differential attentional modulation of cortical responses to S-cone and luminance stimuli

    Article • Journal of Vision, May 2011, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Damien Mannion, Dr. Alan A Stocker

  53. Ambiguity and invariance: two fundamental challenges for visual processing

    Article • Current Opinion in Neurobiology, June 2010, Elsevier

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  54. Is the Homunculus “Aware” of Sensory Adaptation?

    Article • Neural Computation, December 2009, The MIT Press

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  55. Visual motion aftereffects arise from a cascade of two isomorphic adaptation mechanisms

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2009, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  56. Visual adaptation: Neural, psychological and computational aspects

    Article • Vision Research, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  57. An embedded vision system based on an analog VLSI optical flow vision sensor

    Article • International Congress Series, June 2006, Elsevier

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  58. Analog VLSI Circuits for the Perception of Visual Motion

    Article • March 2006, Wiley

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  59. Noise characteristics and prior expectations in human visual speed perception

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, March 2006, Nature

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  60. Analog Integrated 2-D Optical Flow Sensor

    Article • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, December 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  61. Analog VLSI Focal-Plane Array With Dynamic Connections for the Estimation of Piecewise-Smooth Optical Flow

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Fundamental Theory and Applications, May 2004, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  62. Stability study of some neural networks applied to tissue characterization of brain magnetic resonance images

    Article • January 1996, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  63. Analog integrated 2-D optical flow sensor with programmable pixels

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  64. An improved 2D optical flow sensor for motion segmentation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  65. Compact integrated transconductance amplifier circuit for temporal differentiation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker

  66. An embedded vision system based on an analog VLSI vision sensor

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr. Alan A Stocker