Cognition and Perception Research Seminars
Meets Tuesdays 3:30-5 in G070 Architecture Hall
| Date | Announcement |
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| (May 27) | Cognition & Perception first-year students will present Research Festival practice talks |
| (May 27) | Zach Ernst will present: Cross-modal transfer of motion processing between vision and audition (Research Festival practice) |
| (May 27) | Libby Huber will present her research-festival practice talk: "The role of visual experience in understanding visual context" |
| (May 20) | Jeff Lin will present "Objects on a collision path demand your attention: A disassociation between perception & behavior" |
| (May 13) | John Miyamoto and Sonia Savelli present "Are Probabilistic Reasoning Errors Caused by a Similarity Heuristic?
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| (May 6) | Danny Bernstein, Bill Peria, and Geoff Loftus will present:" You knew it all along but I only knew it all along somewhat" in Architecture 070 |
| (Apr 29) | Geoff Boynton (UW) presents, "Feature-Based Attention in Human Visual Cortex" |
| (Apr 22) | Serap Yigit (UW), John Palmer (UW), Cathleen Moore (University of Iowa) present, "Partially valid cueing and spatial filtering reveal different kinds of selection" |
| (Apr 15) | Hunter Hoffman (UW Virtual Reality Lab) presents "Virtual Therapies: treating excessive pain anxiety with Low Cost (i.e., HMD) VR systems" in Architecture 070 |
| (Apr 8) | Richard Wright (UWUW Phonetics Lab, Department of Linguistics) presents "Probing lexical effects in speech production: beyond words in isolation" in Architecture G070 |
| (Mar 4) | Tony Greenwald presents "What's in my head could harm you" |
| (Feb 26) | Michael Perry presents "Gains, losses, and the reference point in a model of multi-attribute decision making". |
| (Feb 19) | Dario Cvencek presents "Parts outweigh the whole (word) in unconscious analysis of meaning II: Paradoxical priming". |
| (Feb 12) | Kate Murray presents "MRI responses in V1 represent the perceived rather than physical stimulus contrast". |
| (Feb 5) | Tianming Yang presents "A Neural Mechanism Underlying Probabilistic Reasoning". |
| (Jan 29) | Geoff Loftus presents "Global and local processing in picture perception". |
| (Jan 15) | Maria Pereverzeva: Lightness perception
Tuesday 3:30 PM, Johnson Hall, Room 026 |
| (Dec 4) | Jan Theeuwes of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam presents: "Early bottom-up and later top-down attentional selection"
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| (Nov 27) | Susan Joslyn and Limor Nadav-Greenberg present "Understanding and Using Uncertainty Information in the Context of Weather Forecast " |
| (Nov 20) | Harry A. Whitaker of Northern Michigan University presents "18th Century Armchair Neuroscience: the contribution of Charles Bonnet, in context" |
Vision Journal Club
Meets Thursdays 12:00-1:00 at alternating locations of 211 Guthrie or 322 Harris
| Date | Announcement |
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| (May 15) | ARVO and VSS meeting recap |
| (May 1) | VSS practice talks and posters: two presentations currently scheduled |
| (Mar 6) | Ione Fine presents "V1 Projection Zone Signals in Human Macular Degeneration Depend on Task, not Stimulus" |
| (Feb 28) | Serap Yigit presents "Attentional mechanisms in visual signal detection: The effects of simultaneous and delayed noise and pattern masks" |
| (Feb 21) | Roozbeh Kiani presents "Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes" by Ma, Beck, Latham and Pouget. |
| (Feb 14) | Peter Meilstrup presents "Two distinct visual motion mechanisms for smooth pursuit: evidence from individual differences" by Wilmer and Nakayama |
| (Feb 7) | Victor de Lafuente presents "Neuronal correlates of subjective sensory experience" |
| (Jan 24) | Rebecca Meese presents "Developmental changes in the stimulus selectivity of cortical neurons" |
| (Jan 17) | Greg Horwitz presents "Specialized Color Modules in Macaque Extrastriate Cortex" by Conway, Moeller, and Tsao (2007) |
| (Nov 29) | Michael Rudd presents "Effects of Spatial Context and Attention on Lightness Perception: Computational and Neural Modeling" |
| (Nov 15) | Charles Zucker of UCSD presents the Lamport Lecture "The receptors, cells and coding logic for mammalian taste"
Thursday, November 15, 2007
1:30 p.m. Foege Auditorium, S-060, Genome Sciences Building
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| (Nov 8) | Orin Packer presents "S cones of macaque monkey retina are spectrally and spatially opponent" |
| (Nov 1) | Fred Soo presents "Brightness and Darkness as Perceptual Dimensions" by Vladusich, Lucassen and Cornelissen from PLoS COmputational Biology 2007
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| (Oct 25) | John Kelly presents a paper by Serge Dumoulin, Jeffrey Jirsch and Andrea Bernasconi entitled: "Functional organization of human visual cortex in occipital polymicrogyria." |
| (Oct 18) | Anitha Pasupathy presents a paper by Liu and Newsome entitled: "Local field potential in cortical area MT: stimulus tuning and behavioral correlations". |
| (Oct 11) | Nicoles Brunet presents "Behavior and neural responses in macaque inferotemporal cortex to dynamic visual stimuli" |
| (Oct 4) | Shani Cavanaugh presents "Short-Term Synaptic Depression Promotes Robust Spike Timing Precision in Neurons of the Chick Nucleus Magnocellularis"
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| (May 31) | Rajeev Raizada of I-LABS presents "Perceptual discriminability of stimuli is predicted by separability of evoked neural patterns" |
| (May 24) | Anne Churchland presents "Tough choices: Decision-making among more than 2 alternatives". |
| (May 17) | Simon Thorpe of CNRS France and SpikeNet Technology presents "Spikes and Rapid Scene Processing". |
