Arne Valberg (NTNU)

Summary of activity

Modeling of retinal and geniculate cell response in primates. The modeling is based on experimental data from MPI for biophysical chemistry, Göttingen (in cooperation with Barry B. Lee)

Contact information

Arne Valberg
Institute for physics, NTNU, Trondheim.

Senior personnel

Arne Valberg, Thorstein Seim. The group is part of the interdisciplinary neuroscience environment at NTNU.

Personnel's neuroinformatic skills/background

Psychophysics, neurophysiology and modeling of the visual system in primates. Optical instrumentation.

Key publications

  • Lee, B.B., Martin, P.R., and Valberg, A, The physiological basis of heterochromatic flicker photometry demnonstrated in the ganglion cells of the macaque retina. J. Physiol. 404, 323-347 (1988).
  • Lee, B.B., Martin, P.R., and Valberg, A. A non-linearity in summation of M- and L-cone inputs to phasic retinal ganglion cells of the macaque. J. Neuroscience, 9(4), 1433-1442 (1989).
  • Valberg, A. and Lee, B.B., Detection and discrimination of colour. A comparison of physiological and psychophysical data. Physica Scripta, 39, 178-186 (1989).
  • Lee, B.B., Martin, P.R., and Valberg, A., Sensitivity of macaque retinal ganglion cells to chromatic and luminance flicker. J. Physiol., 414, 223-243 (1989).
  • Lee, B.B., Martin, P.R., and Valberg, A., Amplitude and phase responses of macaque retinal ganglion cells to flickering stimuli. J. Physiol., 414, 245-263 (1989).
  • Kaiser, P., Lee, B.B., Martin, P. and Valberg, A. The physiological basis of the minimal distinct border demon­strated in the ganglion cells of the macaque retina. J. Physiol., 422, 153-183 (1990).
  • Lee, B.B., Pokorny, J., Smith, C., Martin, P.R. and Valberg, A. Luminance and chromatic modulation sensitivity of macaque ganglion cells and human observers. J. Opt. Soc. Amer., 7, 2223-2236 (1990).
  • Zrenner, E., Abramov, I., Akita, M., Cowey, A., Livingstone, M., and Valberg, A., Color perception. Retina to cortex. In Visual Perception: The Neurophysiological Foundations. (eds. L. Spillmann and J. Werner). Academic Press 1990.
  • Valberg, A., Lee, B.B., and Creutzfeldt, O., Remote surrounds and the sensitivity of primate P-cells. In /From Pigments to Perception./ (eds. A. Valberg and B.B. Lee). Plenum, New York, 1991, pp. 177-180.
  • Valberg, A., Lange-Malecki, B. and Seim, T., Colour changes as a function of luminance contrast. Perception 20, 655-668 (1991).
  • Creutzfeldt, O.D., Kastner, S., Pei, X., and Valberg, A., The neurophysiological correlates of colour and brightness contrast in lateral geniculate neurones. Exp. Brain Res. 87, 22-45 (1991).
  • Valberg, A. and Lee, B.B., Main cell systems in primate visual pathways. Curr. Opinion in Ophthalmology 3, 813-823 (1992).
  • Smith, V.C., Lee, B.B., Pokorny, J., Martin, P.R., and Valberg, A., Responses of macaque ganglion cells on changing the relative phase of heterochromatically modulated lights. J. Physiol. 458, 191-221 (1992).
  • Valberg, A., Lee, B.B, Kaiser, P.K., and Kremers, J., Responses of macaque ganglion cells to movement of chromatic borders. J. Physiology, 458, 579- 602, 1992.
  • Lee, B.B., Martin, P.R., Valberg, A. and Kremers, J., Physiological mechanisms underlying psychophysical sensitivity to combined luminance and chromatic modulation. J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A10, 1403-1412 (1993).
  • Valberg, A. and Rudvin, I., Can activities of magno- and parvocellular pathways be separated in the human VEP? Klinische Fysica, 1, 18-20, 1996.
  • Valberg, A. and Rudvin, I., Possible contributions of magnocellular- and parvocellular pathway cells in transient VEPs. Visual Neuroscience 14, 1-11, 1997.
  • Valberg, A. and Wold, J.H. CIE photometry and Vision Research. Proceedings of the CIE Symposium ’99: 75 years of CIE Photometry. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. 1999.
  • Rudvin, I., Valberg, A. and Kilavik, B.E., Visual evoked potentials and magnocellular , and parvocellular segregation. Visual Neuroscience. 17, 579-590, 2000.
  • Valberg, A., Unique hues: an old problem for a new generation. Vision Research. 41, 1645-1657, 2001.
  • Werner, A., Pokorny, J., Smith, V.C., Valberg, A., Kremers, J. and Greenlee, M.W. Psychophysical correlates of identifiable physiological processes. Chapter 11 in The Primate Visual System. A Comparative Approach (ed. J. Kremers). John Wiley & Sons, USA, 2005, pp. 311 – 358.
  • Rudvin, I. and Valberg, A. Flicker VEPs reflecting multiple rod and cone pathways. Vision Research, in press
  • Rudvin, I. and Valberg, A.. Visual evoked potentials for red-green gratings reversing at different temporal frequencies: asymmetries with respect to isoluminance. Visual Neuroscience, in press.
  • Otte, T., Valberg, A., and Spillmann, L. Surround-induced foveal afterimage pulsation: Evidence for a long-range neural effect. Vision Research, 46, 1187-1193, 2006.