Alex Huk, Ph.D.

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

• 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.
• Muller KS, Matthis J, Bonnen K, Cormack LK, Huk AC, Hayhoe M. Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion.. eLife, 2023.
• 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.
• 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.
• Whritner JA, Czuba TB, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Spatiotemporal integration of isolated binocular three-dimensional motion cues.. Journal of vision, 2021.
• Latimer KW, Huk AC. Author Correction: Superior colliculus activates new perspectives on decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
• Latimer KW, Huk AC. Superior colliculus activates new perspectives on decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2021.
• Zhao Y, Yates JL, Levi AJ, Huk AC, Park IM. Stimulus-choice (mis)alignment in primate area MT.. PLoS computational biology, 2020.
• Levi AJ, Huk AC. Interpreting temporal dynamics during sensory decision-making.. Current opinion in physiology, 2020.
• Hart E, Huk AC. Recurrent circuit dynamics underlie persistent activity in the macaque frontoparietal network.. eLife, 2020.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Huk AC, Hart E. Parsing signal and noise in the brain.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 2019.
• Joo SJ, Greer DA, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Eye-specific pattern-motion signals support the perception of three-dimensional motion.. Journal of vision, 2019.
• 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.
• Levi AJ, Yates JL, Huk AC, Katz LN. Strategic and Dynamic Temporal Weighting for Perceptual Decisions in Humans and Macaques.. eNeuro, 2018.
• 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.
• Cormack LK, Czuba TB, Knöll J, Huk AC. Binocular Mechanisms of 3D Motion Processing.. Annual review of vision science, 2017.
• Huk AC, Katz LN, Yates JL. The Role of the Lateral Intraparietal Area in (the Study of) Decision Making.. Annual review of neuroscience, 2017.
• 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.
• Bonnen K, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Dynamic mechanisms of visually guided 3D motion tracking.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2017.
• 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.
• 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.
• Katz LN, Yates JL, Pillow JW, Huk AC. Dissociated functional significance of decision-related activity in the primate dorsal stream.. Nature, 2016.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Park IM, Meister ML, Huk AC, Pillow JW. Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making.. Nature neuroscience, 2014.
• 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.
• 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.
• Huk AC, Meister ML. Neural correlates and neural computations in posterior parietal cortex during perceptual decision-making.. Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2012.
• Huk AC. Multiplexing in the primate motion pathway.. Vision research, 2012.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Rokers B, Czuba TB, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Motion processing with two eyes in three dimensions.. Journal of vision, 2011.
• 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.
• Winawer J, Huk AC, Boroditsky L. A motion aftereffect from visual imagery of motion.. Cognition, 2009.
• Rokers B, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Disparity- and velocity-based signals for three-dimensional motion perception in human MT+.. Nature neuroscience, 2009.
• Ress D, Thompson JK, Rokers B, Khan RK, Huk AC. A model for transient oxygen delivery in cerebral cortex.. Frontiers in neuroenergetics, 2009.
• Kirson D, Huk AC, Cormack LK. Quantifying spatial uncertainty of visual area boundaries in neuroimaging data.. Journal of vision, 2008.
• 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.
• Huk AC. Visual neuroscience: retinotopy meets percept-otopy?. Current biology : CB, 2008.
• Rokers B, Cormack LK, Huk AC. Strong percepts of motion through depth without strong percepts of position in depth.. Journal of vision, 2008.
• Winawer J, Huk AC, Boroditsky L. A motion aftereffect from still photographs depicting motion.. Psychological science, 2008.
• 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.
• 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.
• Palmer J, Huk AC, Shadlen MN. The effect of stimulus strength on the speed and accuracy of a perceptual decision.. Journal of vision, 2005.
• 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.
• Huk AC, Heeger DJ. Pattern-motion responses in human visual cortex.. Nature neuroscience, 2002.
• Huk AC, Ress D, Heeger DJ. Neuronal basis of the motion aftereffect reconsidered.. Neuron, 2001.
• Heeger DJ, Huk AC, Geisler WS, Albrecht DG. Spikes versus BOLD: what does neuroimaging tell us about neuronal activity?. Nature neuroscience, 2000.
• Huk AC, Heeger DJ. Task-related modulation of visual cortex.. Journal of neurophysiology, 2000.
• 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.
• Durgin FH, Huk AC. Texture density aftereffects in the perception of artificial and natural textures.. Vision research, 1997.