Publications

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Research Articles

Graham, D. (2024). Purple Perils Redux: Open-ended, AI-resistant Reasoning Problems for Introductory Undergraduate Sensation and Perception Instruction. Visual Cognition doi: 10.1080/13506285.2023.2250518 

Graham D.J. (2023) Nine insights from internet engineering that help us understand brain network communication. Frontiers in Computer Science 4:976801. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.976801

Spector, D., & Graham, D. (2022). Blankets, heat, and why free energy has not illuminated the workings of the brain. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E209. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000188

Hao, Y. and Graham D. (2020). Creative destruction: Sparse activity emerges on the mammal connectome under a simulated communication strategy with collisions and redundancy. Network Neuroscience 4 (4), 1055-1091. DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00165

Graham D. J., Avena-Koenigsberger, A., and Mišić, B. (2020). Editorial: Network Communication in the Brain. Network Neuroscience 4 (4), 976-979.

Graham, D. J. and Hao, Y. (2018). A selective diffusion model of brain network activity. Proceedings of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 1195.

Graham, D. J., (2017). Commentary: Building brains that communicate like machines. Behavioral and Brain Sciences e266, 37-38.

Pugach, C.** Leder, H. and Graham, D. J. (2017). How stable are human aesthetic preferences across the lifespan? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11:289. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00289.

Graham, D. J., Schwarz, B., Chatterjee, A. and Leder, H. (2016). Preference for luminance histogram regularities in natural scenes Vision Research, 120, 11-21. Supplemental Data

Pugach, C.,** Daley, E.**, Leder, H. and Graham. D. J. (2014). Aesthetic stability in development. Proceedings of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics Biennial Congress 2014, New York, NY. ISBN: 0-692-29396-5.

Graham, D. J. (2014). Routing in the brain. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 8:44.

Graham, D. J., Pallett, P. M., Meng, M. and Leder, H. (2014). Representation and aesthetics of the human face in portraiture. Art & Perception, 2(1-2), 75-98.

Graham, D. J. (2013). Integrating holism and reductionism in the science of art perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(2), 145-146.

Graham, D. J., Stockinger, S. and Leder, H. (2013). An island of stability: art images and natural scenesbut not natural facesshow consistent aesthetic response in Alzheimers-related dementia. Frontiers in Psychology 4:107.

Graham, D. J. (2011). Visual Perception: Lightness in a High Dynamic Range World. Current Biology 21(22), R914-R916.

Graham, D. J. and Rockmore, D. N. (2011). The packet switching brain. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (2), 267-276.

Graham, D. J. and Meng, M. (2011). Artistic representations: clues to efficient coding in human vision. Visual Neuroscience 28, 371-379 [Special Issue on comparative, ecological and developmental aspects of visual system design and function]

Graham, D. J. and Meng, M. (2011). Altered spatial frequency content in paintings by artists with schizophrenia. i-Perception 2 (1), 1-9.

Graham, D. J., Hughes, J. M., Leder, H. and Rockmore, D. N. (2011). Statistics, vision, and the analysis of artistic style. WIREs Computational Statistics (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Statistics) 4, 115–123. doi: 10.1002/wics.197.

Hughes, J. M., Graham, D. J., Jacobsen, C. R. and Rockmore, D. N. (2011). Comparing higher-order spatial statistics and perceptual judgments in the stylometric analysis of art. Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2011 (19th European Signal Processing Conference), Barcelona, ESP.

Graham, D. J. and Redies, C. (2010). Statistical regularities in art: Relations with visual coding and perception. Vision Research 50 (16) 1503-1509.

Hughes, J. M., Graham, D. J. and Rockmore, D. N. (2010) Quantification of artistic style through sparse coding analysis in the drawings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, 1279-1283.

MEDIA COVERAGE OF PNAS PAPER: Nature, NPR, BBC, Science News, IEEE Spectrum, Ars Technica,
Physics World, NH Union Leader, Valley News, The Dartmouth, Press Release

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D., Rockmore, D. N. and Field, D. J. (2010). Mapping the similarity space of paintings: image statistics and visual perception. Visual Cognition 18 (4), 559-573.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D., McCandless, C. H. and Rockmore, D. N. (2010). Preference for artwork: Similarity, statistics, and selling price. Proc. SPIE: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 7527, 75271A.

Hughes, J. M., Graham, D. J. and Rockmore, D. N. (2010). Stylometrics of artwork: Uses and limitations. Proc. SPIE: Computer Vision and Image Analysis of Art 7531, 75310C.

Graham, D. J. (2009). Art statistics and visual processing: Insights for Picture Coding. Proceedings of the Picture Coding Symposium 2009, Chicago, IL.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. (2009). Efficient visual system processing of spatial and luminance statistics in representational and non-representational art. Proc. SPIE: Human Vision and Electronic Imaging 7240, 72401N.

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2008). Global nonlinear luminance compression in painted art. Proc. SPIE: Computer Image Analysis in the Study of Art 6810, 68100K.

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2008). Variations in intensity statistics for representational and abstract art, and for art from the eastern and western hemispheres. Perception 37, 1341-1352.

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2008). Natural images: coding efficiency. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience ed. Larry R. Squire. Academic Press, Oxford.

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2007). Statistical regularities of art images and natural scenes: Spectra, sparseness and nonlinearities. Spatial Vision 21, 149-164.

Graham, D. J., Chandler, D. M. and Field, D. J. (2006). Can the theory of "whitening" explain the center-surround properties of retinal ganglion cell receptive fields? Vision Research 46, 2901-2913.

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2006). Sparse coding in the neocortex. In: Evolution of Nervous Systems ed. Jon H. Kaas and Leah A. Krubitzer. Elsevier, Vol. III, pp. 181-187.

Cuesta-Lopez, S., Peyrard, M. and Graham, D. J. (2005). Model for DNA hairpin denaturation. European Physical Journal E-Soft Matter 16, 235-246. 

 

Book Chapters

           

Graham, D., & Silverstein, S. (2023). Art Making in Schizophrenia: A Vision Science Perspective. In A. Richard, M. Pelowski, & B. T. M. Spee (Eds.), Art and Neurological Disorders: Illuminating the Intersection of Creativity and the Changing Brain (pp. 113–142). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-14724-1_5

Graham, D. J. 2020. The use of visual statistical features in empirical aesthetics. In: M. Nadal and O. Vartanian (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, UK. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198824350.013.19 

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. 2009. Natural Images: Coding Efficiency. In: L. R. Squire (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience Vol. VI (pp. 19-27). Oxford: Academic Press. 

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. 2006. Sparse coding in the neocortex. In Evolution of Nervous Systems, Vol. III (pp. 181-187), J. Kaas, L. Krubitzer eds. Oxford: Academic Press.

Theses

Graham, D. J. 2008. The relationship between efficient coding of natural scenes in the human visual system and statistical regularities in art. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Psychology, Cornell University.

Graham, D. J. 2004. Efficient retinal ganglion cell coding and the statistics of natural scenes. Master's Thesis, Department of Physics, Cornell University.

Book Reviews

Graham, D. J. 2012 Evolutions Witness. Perception 41, 755-756.

Graham, D. J. 2012 The Evolution of the Eye from Algae and Jellyfish to Humans. Perception 41, 626-627.

Graham, D. J. 2004. In the Blink of an Eye. American Paleontologist 12, 13-17.

Selected Conference Presentations

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Graham, D.J., Hao, Y., Lax, H.,** Tower, T.,** Conwell, C. and Vessel, E. A. (2024, May) What kind of network is the brain? 5th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI. Rome, Italy.

Graham, D.J., Hao, Y., Lax, H.,** Tower, T.** and Hütt, M.-T. (2023, September) Collision Models of Brain Network Communication. 4th International Convention on the Mathematics of Neuroscience and AI. Rhodes, Greece.

Hao, Y., Graham, D. and Hütt, M.-T. (2023, March). Propagation time of messages on complex networks with collisions. Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems, Potsdam, NY.

Conwell, C., Graham, D., Konkle, T., & Vessel, E. (2022). Purely Perceptual Machines Robustly Predict Human Visual Arousal, Valence, and Aesthetics. Journal of Vision, 22(14), 4266-4266.

O’Keefe, J.**, Reever, J.**, Hao, Y. and Graham, D. (2021, August). Agent based models of brain network communication. MAA MathFest, virtual. Winner, Outstanding Student Presentation Award.

Conwell, C., Graham, D. J. and Vessel, E. (2021, September). Beauty as ‘Elemental Affect’: Image aesthetics, more so than arousal or valence, can be near optimally predicted with linear readout from deep net feature spaces. International Association for Empirical Aesthetics Biennial Congress, virtual.

Graham, D. J. and Hao, Y. (2019, September). Nonlinear collision rules on the mammal connectome produce different behavior in diffusion processes compared to random walk models. Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, DE.

Graham, D. J. and Hao, Y. (2018, September). A selective diffusion model of brain network activity. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Philadelphia, PA.

Graham, D. J. and Pomerantz, L.** (2018, August). Human preference for the “true” entropy in visual displays. International Association for Empirical Aesthetics Biennial Congress, Toronto, ON, CA.

Graham, D. J. and Hao, Y. (2018, July). Sparseness and message loss in simulated packet-switching primate brain networks. Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Forum, Berlin, DE.    

Hao, Y. and Graham, D. J. (2018, June). Simulating efficient routing protocols in primate brain networks. International Conference of Mathematical Neuroscience, Juan-les-Pins, FR.

Teceno, D.** and Graham. D. J. (2017, May). Aesthetic stability in adults with brain injury: A pilot study. Association for Psychological Science Conference, Boston, MA.

Graham, D. J. (2017, March). Human aesthetic stability. International Conference of Psychological Science, Vienna, Austria. [presenter and co-chair of symposium, Art and Aesthetics in Everyday Life].

Prescott, N.** and Graham, D. J. (2017, March). The visual neuroscience of masks. Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, MA.

Forman, C.**, Pallett, P., Leder, H. and Graham, D. J. (2016, May). Face representation in human mask-making. Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.

Graham, D. J. (2016, April). Face representation in portraiture and mask-making. Invited Panelist, American Society for Aesthetics, Eastern Section Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Pugach, C.**, Daley, E.**, Leder, H. and Graham, D. J. (2014, August). Aesthetic Stability in Development. International Association for Empirical Aesthetics Biennial Congress, New York, NY.

Graham, D. J., Schwarz, B., and Leder, H. (2013, May). Preference for higher-order luminance regularities in natural scenes. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Graham, D. J. and Meng, M. (2011, May). Lightness constancy in visual artists. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.

Hughes, J. M., Graham, D. J., Jacobsen, C. R. and Rockmore, D. N. (2011, August). Higher-order Spatial Statistics and Perceptual Judgments in the Stylometric Analysis of Art. EUSIPCO 2011 (19th European Signal Processing Conference), Barcelona, ESP.

Graham, D. J. and Meng, M. (2010, November). Rapid classification of paintings: Evidence for efficient artistic representations. Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Graham, D. J. and Meng, M. (2010, August). Altered spatial frequency content in paintings by artists with schizophrenia. Talk presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. (2010, January). Preference for art: similarity, statistics, and selling price. Talk presented at the SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA.

Hughes, J. M., Graham, D. J. and Rockmore, D. J. (2010, January) Stylometrics of artwork: uses and limitations. Talk presented at the SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference on Computer Image Analysis in the Study of Art, San Jose, CA.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. (2009, August). Mathematics, perception, and the visual arts: new perspectives. Talk presented at Society for Mathematical Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. (2009, July). The efficiency of visual artwork: relating cognitive and perceptual processing to nonlinear image statistics. Poster presented at the Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, NL.

Graham, D. J. (2009, May). Art statistics and visual processing: insights for picture coding. Invited panelist at the Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, IL.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. (2009, January). Intensity statistics of artwork: connections to human visual perception. Talk presented at the SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA.

Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D., Rockmore, D. N. and Field, D. J. (2008, August). Mapping the similarity space of paintings: Is there a role for image statistics? Talk presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2008, January). Global nonlinear compression of natural luminances in painted art. Talk presented at the SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference on Computer Image Analysis in the Study of Art, San Jose CA.

Cutting, J. E., Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. (2008, February). From a neuroesthetics to a neuroarthistory. College Art Association, Dallas TX.

Graham, D. J., Page, K. B. and Field, D. J. (2006, August). Relating nonlinearities to statistical regularities in paintings. Talk presented at the European Conference on Visual Perception, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Graham, D. J., Chandler, D. M. and Field, D. J. (2005, August). How alike are natural scenes and paintings? Characterizing the spatial statistical properties of a set of digitized, grey-scale images of painted art. European Conference on Visual Perception, La Coruna, Spain.

Graham, D. J., Chandler, D. M. and Field, D. J. (2004, May). Decorrelation and response equalization with center-surround receptive fields. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Invited Talks

Routing in Brain Networks. Clarkson Center for Complex Systems Science Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, March, 2023.

Introduction to Visual Stylometry: A Neuroscientific Perspective, WAIVS (Workflows for Analysis of Images in Visual Stylometry), Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA USA, May, 2017.

Face Representation in Portraiture and Masks, Eastern American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, April 2016.

The Packet Switching Brain: A Hypothesis, Redwood Neuroscience Institute Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Nov 2009.  VIDEO.

The Efficient Artist: Statistical Regularities in Art and Their Relationships with Visual Coding, Oxyopia Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, School of Optometry, Nov 2009. VIDEO.

Art and Efficient Visual Representation, Mathematics Colloquium, Middlebury College, Sept 2009.

Invited Panelist, Special Session on Visual Attention, Artistic Intent and Efficient Coding, Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, IL, May 2009.

Stylometric analysis of Van Gogh using methods inspired by early visual system neural coding. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL, Oct 2008. (part of IP4AI)

Statistical Regularities in Paintings: Connections to Visual Coding and Perception, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany, Sept 2008.

Relationships Between Human Visual Coding and Painted Art, Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Dartmouth College, Feb 2008.

The Illuminated World: Art and the Visual System, Art for Lunch, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, April 2007.

 

 

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