Alexander Huk

Professor-in-Residence, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California Los Angeles

Professor-in-Residence, Ophthalmology, University of California Los Angeles

Director, Fuster Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience

Interests

visual neuroscience, perceptual decision-making, computational neuroscience, working memory, persistent activity, sensorimotor integration

Education and Training

StanfordPhD2001
Swarthmore CollegeBA1996
University of WashingtonPost-Doc

Awards and Honors

  • Director, Center for Perceptual Systems, The University of Texas at Austin, 2019-2022.
  • Permanent Member, NBVP Study Section, 2018-2023.
  • Young Investigator Award, Vision Sciences Society, 2011.
  • NIH BRAIN Initiative Marmoset Steering Committee, 2021-pres.

Publications

  1. Muller KS, Matthis J, Bonnen K, Cormack LK, Huk AC, Hayhoe M. Correction: Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion.. eLife, 2023.
  2. Hyafil A, de la Rocha J, Pericas C, Katz LN, Huk AC, Pillow JW. Temporal integration is a robust feature of perceptual decisions.. eLife, 2023.
  3. Muller KS, Matthis J, Bonnen K, Cormack LK, Huk AC, Hayhoe M. Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion.. eLife, 2023.
  4. Levi AJ, Zhao Y, Park IM, Huk AC. Sensory and Choice Responses in MT Distinct from Motion Encoding.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2023.
  5. Miller CT, Gire D, Hoke K, Huk AC, Kelley D, Leopold DA, Smear MC, Theunissen F, Yartsev M, Niell CM. Natural behavior is the language of the brain.. Current biology : CB, 2022.
  6. Whritner JA, Czuba TB, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Spatiotemporal integration of isolated binocular three-dimensional motion cues.. Journal of vision, 2021.
  7. Latimer KW, Huk AC. Author Correction: Superior colliculus activates new perspectives on decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
  8. Latimer KW, Huk AC. Superior colliculus activates new perspectives on decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
  9. Zhao Y, Yates JL, Levi AJ, Huk AC, Park IM. Stimulus-choice (mis)alignment in primate area MT.. PLoS computational biology, 2020.
  10. Levi AJ, Huk AC. Interpreting temporal dynamics during sensory decision-making.. Current opinion in physiology, 2020.
  11. Hart E, Huk AC. Recurrent circuit dynamics underlie persistent activity in the macaque frontoparietal network.. eLife, 2020.
  12. Yates JL, Katz LN, Levi AJ, Pillow JW, Huk AC. A simple linear readout of MT supports motion direction-discrimination performance.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2019.
  13. Bonnen K, Czuba TB, Whritner JA, Kohn A, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Binocular viewing geometry shapes the neural representation of the dynamic three-dimensional environment.. Nature neuroscience, 2019.
  14. Zoltowski DM, Latimer KW, Yates JL, Huk AC, Pillow JW. Discrete Stepping and Nonlinear Ramping Dynamics Underlie Spiking Responses of LIP Neurons during Decision-Making.. Neuron, 2019.
  15. Huk AC, Hart E. Parsing signal and noise in the brain.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019.
  16. Joo SJ, Greer DA, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Eye-specific pattern-motion signals support the perception of three-dimensional motion.. Journal of vision, 2019.
  17. Knöll J, Pillow JW, Huk AC. Lawful tracking of visual motion in humans, macaques, and marmosets in a naturalistic, continuous, and untrained behavioral context.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018.
  18. Levi AJ, Yates JL, Huk AC, Katz LN. Strategic and Dynamic Temporal Weighting for Perceptual Decisions in Humans and Macaques.. eNeuro, 2018.
  19. Huk A, Bonnen K, He BJ. Beyond Trial-Based Paradigms: Continuous Behavior, Ongoing Neural Activity, and Natural Stimuli.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018.
  20. Cormack LK, Czuba TB, Knöll J, Huk AC. Binocular Mechanisms of 3D Motion Processing.. Annual review of vision science, 2017.
  21. Huk AC, Katz LN, Yates JL. The Role of the Lateral Intraparietal Area in (the Study of) Decision Making.. Annual review of neuroscience, 2017.
  22. Yates JL, Park IM, Katz LN, Pillow JW, Huk AC. Functional dissection of signal and noise in MT and LIP during decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2017.
  23. Bonnen K, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Dynamic mechanisms of visually guided 3D motion tracking.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2017.
  24. Joo SJ, Czuba TB, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Separate Perceptual and Neural Processing of Velocity- and Disparity-Based 3D Motion Signals.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2016.
  25. Greer DA, Bonnen K, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Speed discrimination in the far monocular periphery: A relative advantage for interocular comparisons consistent with self-motion.. Journal of vision, 2016.
  26. Katz LN, Yates JL, Pillow JW, Huk AC. Dissociated functional significance of decision-related activity in the primate dorsal stream.. Nature, 2016.
  27. Latimer KW, Yates JL, Meister ML, Huk AC, Pillow JW. Response to Comment on "Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making".. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016.
  28. Joo SJ, Katz LN, Huk AC. Decision-related perturbations of decision-irrelevant eye movements.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016.
  29. Katz LN, Hennig JA, Cormack LK, Huk AC. A Distinct Mechanism of Temporal Integration for Motion through Depth.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2015.
  30. Latimer KW, Yates JL, Meister ML, Huk AC, Pillow JW. NEURONAL MODELING. Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2015.
  31. Goonetilleke SC, Katz L, Wood DK, Gu C, Huk AC, Corneil BD. Cross-species comparison of anticipatory and stimulus-driven neck muscle activity well before saccadic gaze shifts in humans and nonhuman primates.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2015.
  32. Czuba TB, Huk AC, Cormack LK, Kohn A. Area MT encodes three-dimensional motion.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014.
  33. Park IM, Meister ML, Huk AC, Pillow JW. Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2014.
  34. Knudson KC, Yates JL, Huk AC, Pillow J. Inferring sparse representations of continuous signals with continuous orthogonal matching pursuit.. Advances in neural information processing systems, 2014.
  35. Meister ML, Hennig JA, Huk AC. Signal multiplexing and single-neuron computations in lateral intraparietal area during decision-making.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2013.
  36. Huk AC, Meister ML. Neural correlates and neural computations in posterior parietal cortex during perceptual decision-making.. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2012.
  37. Huk AC. Multiplexing in the primate motion pathway.. Vision research, 2012.
  38. Czuba TB, Rokers B, Huk AC, Cormack LK. To CD or not to CD: Is there a 3D motion aftereffect based on changing disparities?. Journal of vision, 2012.
  39. Eastman KM, Huk AC. PLDAPS: A Hardware Architecture and Software Toolbox for Neurophysiology Requiring Complex Visual Stimuli and Online Behavioral Control.. Frontiers in neuroinformatics, 2012.
  40. Czuba TB, Rokers B, Guillet K, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Three-dimensional motion aftereffects reveal distinct direction-selective mechanisms for binocular processing of motion through depth.. Journal of vision, 2011.
  41. Rokers B, Czuba TB, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Motion processing with two eyes in three dimensions.. Journal of vision, 2011.
  42. Czuba TB, Rokers B, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Speed and eccentricity tuning reveal a central role for the velocity-based cue to 3D visual motion.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2010.
  43. Winawer J, Huk AC, Boroditsky L. A motion aftereffect from visual imagery of motion.. Cognition, 2009.
  44. Rokers B, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Disparity- and velocity-based signals for three-dimensional motion perception in human MT+.. Nature neuroscience, 2009.
  45. Ress D, Thompson JK, Rokers B, Khan RK, Huk AC. A model for transient oxygen delivery in cerebral cortex.. Frontiers in neuroenergetics, 2009.
  46. Kirson D, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Quantifying spatial uncertainty of visual area boundaries in neuroimaging data.. Journal of vision, 2008.
  47. Wong KF, Huk AC. Temporal Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision Making: Insights from the Interplay between an Attractor Model and Parietal Neurophysiology.. Frontiers in neuroscience, 2008.
  48. Huk AC. Visual neuroscience: retinotopy meets percept-otopy?. Current biology : CB, 2008.
  49. Rokers B, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Strong percepts of motion through depth without strong percepts of position in depth.. Journal of vision, 2008.
  50. Winawer J, Huk AC, Boroditsky L. A motion aftereffect from still photographs depicting motion.. Psychological science, 2008.
  51. Wong KF, Huk AC, Shadlen MN, Wang XJ. Neural circuit dynamics underlying accumulation of time-varying evidence during perceptual decision making.. Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2007.
  52. Huk AC, Shadlen MN. Neural activity in macaque parietal cortex reflects temporal integration of visual motion signals during perceptual decision making.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2005.
  53. Palmer J, Huk AC, Shadlen MN. The effect of stimulus strength on the speed and accuracy of a perceptual decision.. Journal of vision, 2005.
  54. Huk AC, Dougherty RF, Heeger DJ. Retinotopy and functional subdivision of human areas MT and MST.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2002.
  55. Huk AC, Heeger DJ. Pattern-motion responses in human visual cortex.. Nature neuroscience, 2002.
  56. Huk AC, Ress D, Heeger DJ. Neuronal basis of the motion aftereffect reconsidered.. Neuron, 2001.
  57. Heeger DJ, Huk AC, Geisler WS, Albrecht DG. Spikes versus BOLD: what does neuroimaging tell us about neuronal activity?. Nature neuroscience, 2000.
  58. Huk AC, Heeger DJ. Task-related modulation of visual cortex.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2000.
  59. Wandell BA, Poirson AB, Newsome WT, Baseler HA, Boynton GM, Huk A, Gandhi S, Sharpe LT. Color signals in human motion-selective cortex.. Neuron, 1999.
  60. Durgin FH, Huk AC. Texture density aftereffects in the perception of artificial and natural textures.. Vision research, 1997.