Video lectures for "Attention, Salience, and the Primary Visual Cortex".
this is for chapter 5 ( its free pdf file) of the book "Understanding Vision: theory, models, and data" .
This material is on attention in general, and exogenous attentional guidence by V1 in particular.The video clips below are listed by the rough order in which their topics appear in the textbook. It is feasible, although much less convenient, to learn all the essentials of the materials without access to the textbook (which is available in many university libraries).
The next two videos can be skipped to directly go to the detailed shorter video clips
The detailed shorter video clips
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 1: attention and information bottleneck (4.52 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 2: how to direct attention behaviorally? (9:59 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 3: how to direct attention neurally? (4:50 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 4: consequences of directing attention (11:04 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 5: V1 Saliency Hypothesis, (13:53 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 6: Saliency and visual search. (3:58 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 7: Attention capture by an ocular singleton --- a hallmark of V1 (11:09 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.1: testing the V1 Saliency Hypothesis (V1SH) by a V1 model, part 1 (16:47 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.2: testing V1SH by a V1 model, part 2, model notations and calibrations (13:04 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.3: testing V1SH by a V1 model, part 3, model behavior on visual inputs (10:33 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.4: testing V1SH by a V1 model, part 4, model behavior on visual inputs, continued (12:19 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.5: testing V1SH by a V1 model, part 5, visual search asymmetry (8:55 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.6: testing V1SH by a V1 model, part 6, figure-ground, medial axis, and size effects (8:28 minutes)
Chap 5: Attention, Saliency, and V1, Video 8.7: testing V1SH by a V1 model, part 7, reflections from, and extensions of, the model. (3:39 minutes)
the videos listed above are more or less complete for learning the materials in chapter 5 of the book. If I add one more short video clip for this chapter, it would be for the material in section 5.7 (page 279-285: V1's role beyond saliency --- selection verss decoding, periphery versus central vision), which is mainly discussions on the boundary topic between chapter 5 and chapter 6 of the book.