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PROF PAUL MARTIN



Contact Details

Organization: Optometry and Vision Sciences
Position: HONORARY
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Homepage: www.vco.org.au/nvri
Work: 9349 7481
Fax: 9349 7498

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Visual Neuroscience, Color Vision Color, Sensory, Physiology, Anatomy Australia, Germany

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Germany Max Planck Institut Exchange, Research
United States Cornell University Exchange, Research
Australia The University of Queensland Research
United States State University of New York Exchange, Research
United States Harvard University Exchange

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Honours University of Sydney 31-Dec-1980
Doctor of Philosophy University of Sydney 01-Apr-1986

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Registered Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Member 31-Dec-1987
Council Australian Neuroscience Society Editor and Executive 31-Dec-2002
Registered International Colour Vision Society Member 01-Sep-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Scholarship Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow 12-Dec-1986

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Optical imaging of brain activity: studies of the neural basis of sensory perception, plasticity and behaviour Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2004
Chromatic inputs to cortical receptive fields in primates Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
Network properties of colour pathways in primates. Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2006
A study of visual pathways in the retina Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2007
Characterising an ancient subdivision of the visual pathway Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2009
Functional imaging of colour pathways in the living eye Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Segregation of short-wavelength-sensitive (S) cone signals in the macaque dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 30
    Page numbers: 1517-1526
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  • Synaptic inputs onto small bistratified (Blue-ON/Yellow-OFF) ganglion cells in marmoset retina.
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 517
    Page numbers: 655-669
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Retinal ganglion cell inputs to the koniocellular pathway.


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 510
    Page numbers: 251-268
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  • Transmission of blue (S) cone signals through the primate lateral geniculate nucleus


    Year: 2008
    Journal: The Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 586
    Issue: 24
    Page numbers: 5947-5967
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  • Color signals in the primary visual cortex of marmosets
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1-16
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  • Segregation of short-wavelength sensitive ("blue") cone signals among neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus and striate cortex of marmosets.
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 2604-2614
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • First order connections of the visual sector of the thalamic reticular nucleus in marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 857-74
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  • Response variability of marmoset parvocellular neurons
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 579
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 29-51
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  • The unsolved mystery of vision
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Current Biology
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: R577-582
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Contribution of chromatic aberrations to color signals in the primate visual system
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 97-105
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  • Geniculocortical relay of blue-off signals in the primate visual system
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 103
    Issue: 51
    Page numbers: 19512-19517
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  • Random Wiring in the Midget Pathway of Primate Retina
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 15
    Page numbers: 3908-3917
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  • Specificity of M and L cone inputs to receptive fields in the parvocellular pathway: Random wiring with functional bias
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 43
    Page numbers: 11148-11161
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  • Synaptic Connectivity in the Midget-Parvocellular Pathway of Primate Central Retina
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 494
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 260-274
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Primate Retina
    Year: 2005
    Book: The Primate Visual System: A Comparative Approach
    Publisher: John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Journal Articles

  • Chromatic Organization of Ganglion Cell Receptive Fields in the Peripheral Retina
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 18
    Page numbers: 4527-4539
    Publisher: Society of Neuroscience(Washington DC)
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  • Mosaic properties of midget and parasol ganglion cells in the marmoset retina
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 395-404
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Spatial coding and response redundancy in parallel visual pathways of the marmoset Callithrix jacchus
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 479-491
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Chromatic and spatial properties of parvocellular cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 557
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 229-245
    Publisher: Cambrige University Press(New York)
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  • Colour through the thalamus
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Clinical and Experimental Optometry
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 249-257
    Publisher: Optometrists Association Australia(Carlton)
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • Ganglion cells in mammalian retinae
    Year: 2003
    Book: The visual neurosciences
    Publisher: MIT Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • Glutamate receptors at bipolar synapses in the inner plexiform layer of primate retina: light microscopic analysis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 466
    Page numbers: 136-147
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New York)
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  • Interactions between color and luminance in the perception of orientation
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Vision
    Volume: 3
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 106-115
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Expression and distribution of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits on parasol ganglion cells in the primate retina


    Year: 2002
    Journal: Visual Neuroscience
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 453-465
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  • Extraclassical receptive field properties of Parvocellular, Magnocellular and Koniocellular cells in the primate lateral geniculate nucleus.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 22
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 338-349
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  • Modulation sensitivity of ganglion cells in peripheral retina of macaque
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Vision Research
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 2893-2898
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Bipolar Cell Diversity in the Primate Retina: Morphologic and Immunocytochemical Analysis of a New World Monkey, the Marmoset Callithrix jacchus
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Comparative Neurology
    Volume: 437
    Page numbers: 219-239
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  • Chromatic sensitivity of ganglion cells in the peripheral primate retina
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Nature
    Volume: 410
    Page numbers: 933-936
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  • Immunocytochemical identification and analysis of the diffuse bipolar cell type DB6 in macaque monkey retina
    Year: 2001
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 829-832
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  • Retinal Pathways for Colour Vision: Studies of Short-Wavelength Sensitive ("Blue") Cones and Their Connections in Primate Retina
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Colour research and Application
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: S112-S117
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  • Spatial properties of koniocellular cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the marmoset Callithrix jacchus
    Year: 2001
    Journal: The Journal of Physiology
    Volume: 533
    Page numbers: 519-535
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