Daniel Kiper

Email:
Work phone:
41 44/ 635 30 36
Home page:

I received training in experimental psychology and neuroscience. My research interests focus on the processing of visual signals within the primate brain, with particular emphasis on color and form information.

We use a variety of experimental techniques to investigate how visual signals code various stimulus attributes and to reveal the principles guiding how these different signals are combined to yield a global, coherent percept of the world.

In addition, we study the role of visual signals in a variety of domains ranging from visual awareness to Virtual Reality (VR).

Projects

Teaching

INI-402 Computational Vision
INI-407 Sinnesphysiologie I : Readings
INI-408 Neuroscience of action and performance
INI-410 The Neurobiology of Consciousness
INI-415 Introduction to Systems Neuroscience
INI-425 Block: Computational Neuroscience
INI-426 Block: Systems Neuroscience
INI-429 Bachelor Practical/Seminar
INI-701 Kolloquium in Neuroinformatik

Publications

2011

2010

  • Holper, L and Muehlemann, T and Scholkmann, F and Eng, K and Kiper, D and Wolf, M Testing the potential of a virtual reality neurorehabilitation system during performance of observation, imagery and imitation of motor actions recorded by wireless functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) , Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, 7:(1) 57, 2010
  • Rentzeperis, I and Kiper, D.C. Evidence for color and luminance invariance of global form mechanisms, Journal of Vision, 10:(12) 1-15, 2010

2009

  • Eng, K and Pescatore, A and Chevrier, E and Pyk, P and Holper, L and Schuster, C and Heinrichs, A and Kiper, D Patient Evaluation of a Mirrored Display for Viewing of Co-located Virtual Arms, Proc. World Congress on Med. Phys. Biomed. Eng., 25/IV: 1861-1864, 2009
  • Vuillermot, S and Pescatore, A and Holper, L and Kiper, D and Eng, K An Extended Drawing Test for the Assessment of Arm and Hand Function with a Performance Invariant for Healthy Subjects, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 177:(2) 452-460, 2009
  • Wille, D. and Eng, K. and Holper, L. and Chevrier, E. and Hauser, Y. and Kiper, D. and Pyk, P. and Schlegel, S. and Meyer-Heim, A. Paediatric Interactive Therapy System (PITS) for improvement of arm and hand function in children with motor impairment – a pilot study, Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 12:(1) 44-52, 2009

2008

  • Haegni, K and Eng, K and Hepp-Reymond, M-C and Holper, L and Keisker, B and Siekierka, E and Kiper, D Observing virtual arms that you imagine are yours increases the galvanic skin response to an unexpected threat, PLoS ONE, 3:(8) e3082, 2008
  • Pescatore, A and Holper, L and Pyk, P and Kiper, D and Eng, K A Display for Supporting Ownership of Virtual Arms, Presence 2008 270-273, 2008
  • Pyk, P. and Wille, D. and Chevrier, E. and Hauser, Y. and Holper, L and Fatton, I and Greipl, R and Schlegel, S and Ottiger, L and Rückreim, B and Pescatore, A. and Meyer-Heim, A. and Kiper, D and Eng, K A Paediatric Interactive Therapy System for Arm and Hand Rehabilitation, Virtual Rehabilitation 2008, Vancouver, Canada, 2008
  • Pyk, P and Wille, D and Chevrier, E and Hauser, Y and Holper, L and Fatton, I and Greipl, R and Schlegl, S and Ottiger, L and Rückreim, B and Pescatore, A and Meyer-Heim, A and Kiper, D and Eng, K A Paediatric Interactive Therapy System for Arm and Hand Rehabilitation, Virtual Rehabilitation 2008 127-132, 2008

2007

  • Eng, K, and Siekierka, E, and Pyk, P, and Chevrier, E, and Hauser, Y, and Holper, L, and Cameirao, M, and Hägni, K, and Zimmerli, L, and Duff, A, and Schuster, C, and Bassetti, C, and Verschure, P, and Kiper, D, Interactive Visuo-Motor Therapy System for Stroke Rehabilitation., Medical and biological engineering and computing, 45:(9) 901-907, 2007
  • Guanella, Alexis and Kiper, Daniel and Verschure, Paul A model of grid cells based on a twisted torus topology, International Journal of Neural Systems, 2007
  • Haegni, K and Eng, K and Hepp-Reymond, M-C and Holper, L and Keisker, B and Siekierka, E and Kiper, D The Effect of Task and Ownership on Time Estimation in Virtual Environments, The 10th Annual International Workshop on Presence, 2007
  • Kiper, Daniel C and Martin, Kevan AC and Scherberger, Hans J Cortical Plasticity: A view from non-human primates, Neurodegenerative diseases, 4: 34-42, 2007

2006

  • Eng, K and Siekierka, E and Cameirao, M and Zimmerli, L and Pyk, P and Duff, A and Erol, F and Schuster, C and Bassetti, C and Kiper, D and Verschure, P F M J Cognitive Virtual-Reality Based Stroke Rehabilitation, World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, 2006

2005

  • Kiper, DC Responses of V4 neurons to colored Glass patterns, VSS abstracts(911) 251, 2005
  • Mandelli, MJ and Kiper, DC The local and global processing of colored Glass patterns, Journal of Vision, 5:(5) 405-416, 2005

2004

  • Dahl, C and Kiper, DC Absence of representational momentum for rotating objects , Perception, 33: 182, 2004
  • Hofstoetter, C. and Koch, C. and Kiper, D. C. Motion-induced blindness does not affect the formation of negative afterimages, Consciousness and Cognition, 13:(4) 691-708. , 2004

2003

  • Cardinal , K and Kiper, DC The detection of colored Glass patterns, Journal of Vision, 3:(3) 199-208, 2003
  • Gegenfurtner, KR and Kiper, DC Color Vision, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 26: 181-206, 2003
  • Kiper, DC Color and form in the cortex, Physiology News(52) 19-20, 2003
  • Kiper, D.C. Color and form in the early stages of cortical processing, Journal of Physiology, 548: 335, 2003
  • Gegenfurtner, K.R. and Kiper, D.C. Chapter 66, The treatment of color in extrastriate cortex 1017-1029, 2003
  • Kiper, DC. and Carandini, M. , The neural basis of pattern vision, 2003

2002

  • Freeman, TCB and Durand, S and Kiper, DC and Carandini, M Suppression without inhibition in visual cortex, Neuron, 35: 759-771, 2002
  • Girardin, CC and Kiper, DC and Martin, KAC The effect of moving textures on the responses of cells in the cat's dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus, European Journal of Neuroscience, 16:(11) 2149-2156, 2002
  • Huerlimann, F and Kiper, DC and Carandini, M Testing the bayesian model of perceived speed, Vision Research, 42:(19) 2253-2257, 2002
  • Kiper, DC and Zesiger, P and Maeder, P and Deonna, T and Innocenti, GM Vision after early-onset lesions of the occipital cortex: I) Neuropsychological and psychophysical studies, Neural Plasticity, 9:(1) 1-25, 2002
  • Knyazeva, M and Maeder, P and Kiper, DC and Deonna, T and Innocenti, GM Vision after early-onset lesions of the occipital cortex: II) Physiological studies, Neural Plasticity, 9:(1) 27-40, 2002
  • Manger, P. and Kiper, DC. and Masiello, I. and Murillo, L. and Tettoni, L. and Hunyadi, Z. and Innocenti, GM. The representation of the visual field in three extrastriate areas of the ferret (mustela putorius), and the relationship of retinotopy and field boundaries to callosal connectivity., Cerebral Cortex, 12: 423-437, 2002
  • Zesiger, P and Kiper, DC and Maeder, P and Deonna, T and Innocenti, GM Preserved visual function in a case of occipito-parietal microgyria, Annals of Neurology, 52:(4) 492-498, 2002

2001

  • Durand, S and Freeman, T C B and Kiper, DC and Carandini, M Probing the sources of cross-orientation suppression in cat visual cortex using fast stimuli, Perception, 30 Supplement: 94-95, 2001
  • Durand, S and Freeman, T C B and Mante, V and Kiper, DC and Carandini, M Cross-orientation suppression in cat V1 with very fast stimuli., Soc Neurosci Abs, 27: Program number 12.10, 2001
© 2012 Institut für Neuroinformatik