Cognition and Perception Research Seminars

Meets Tuesdays 3:30-5 in G070 Architecture Hall

Date News
(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? "
(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"
(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"
(Nov 13) Geoff Loftus, John Palmer, Kristie Fisher and maybe others present Psychonomics Practice Talks or Posters
(Nov 6) Daniel Bernstein and Bill Peria present "You knew it all along but I only knew it all along somewhat"
(Oct 30) Buz Hunt presents "The Economics of Intelligence"
(Oct 23) Farhad Dastur of Kwantlen University College in BC presents "Shifts in Color Preference in First Trimester Pregnant Women"
(Oct 16) Hunter Hoffman presents "Virtual Reality Exposure Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"
(Oct 2) Andrea De Cesarei of the University of Bologna presents "Looking at small emotional pictures: Arousal and attention"
(May 29) Michael Perry presents "Shifts of Risk Preference in Multi-Attribute Decision Domains". CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL
(May 22) Kristie Fisher presents her first year project "College Students_ Understanding of Algebraic Modeling."
(May 15) Amy Guthormsen presents "Conceptual Integration of Arithmetic and Real-world Knowledge: Evidence from Reading Time and ERP Data".
(May 8) Alec Scharff presents his first year project "Seeking serial processing in perception"
(May 1) Deborah McCutchen of the UW Department of Educational Psychology presents "The Role of Morphological Information in Children's Word Reading".
(Apr 24) Katherine Demuth of Brown University presents "Uncovering What Young Children Know About Language".
(Apr 17) Bruce Henning from Oxford University presents "Some Observations on Cue Combination in the Perception of Depth"
(Apr 10) Heather Knapp presents "Attentional capacity limitations on the identification of alphanumeric characters, English words, and American Sign Language signs" CANCELLED-TO BE RESCHEDULED
(Mar 6) Michael Rudd presents "Four principles of lightness perception in search of a neural mechanism"
(Feb 27) Scott Murray gives a practice talk of: "Vison and the Brain: Unseen Complexities"
(Feb 20) Tony Greenwald presents "Assessing the validity of Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures"
(Feb 13) Mei-Ching Lien of Oregon State University presents "Capacity Limitations of the Human Mind: Electrophysiological Evidence That Word Identification Requires Central Attention"
(Jan 30) Earl Hunt presents "Male-Female Differences in General Intelligence? A Mathematical Modeling Approach"
(Jan 23) John Palmer presents "Set-size effects for identification versus localization depend on the visual search task". Coauthored with Tom Busey.
(Jan 16) Earl Hunt presents "Male-Female Differences in General Intelligence? A Mathematical Modeling Approach" CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED
(Jan 9) Lin Lin presents "Perceptual Versus Actual Measures of Neighborhood Environment"

 

Vision Journal Club

Meets Thursdays 12:00-1:00 at alternating locations of 211 Guthrie or 322 Harris

Date News
(Jan 18) John Palmer presents background papers for a talk by John Jonides
(Feb 1) Steve Buck presents a paper by Mullen and colleages on the "Selectivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to color stimulation".
(Feb 22) No Vision Journal Club; But consider going to presentations of the trainees of the Vision Training Grant (11:30 Foege Aud., S-060)
(Mar 1) Practice Talks for the 2nd International Workshop on Visual Attention
(Mar 8) Mel Goodale of the University of Western Ontario joins the locals in a discussion of "Future Directions in Visual Cognitive Neuroscience".
(Apr 5) Alec Scharff presents two papers on attention and eye movements by Eileen Kowler and her colleagues. The meeting will be in 211 Guthrie at 12 noon Thursday 5 April.
(Apr 12) Barry Wark presents a paper by Stocker and Simoncell (2006), "Noise characteristics and prior expectations in human visual speed perception", Nature Neuroscence, 9, 578-585.
(Apr 19) Andrew Bock presents "Retinal Influences Specify Cortico-Cortical Maps by Postnatal Day Six in Rats and Mice". The meeting will be in 211 Guthrie at noon.
(Apr 26) Brian Lundstrom presents "Quantifying Stimulus Discriminability: A comparison of information theory and ideal observer analysis" paper by Thomson and Krisan, Neural Computation, 17, 741-778.
(May 3) VSS practice talks and posters by Maria Pereverzeva, John Palmer, John Kelly and maybe others. Meeting in 211 Guthrie from 11:30 to 1:30. NOTE SPECIAL TIME. Please feel free to come or go as need be.
(May 10) Adrienne Fairhall presents a paper by Michael Berry's group: "Detection and prediction of periodic patterns by the retina", Schwarz etal (2007) Nature Neuroscience, 10, 552-554.
(May 17) Simon Thorpe of CNRS France and SpikeNet Technology presents "Spikes and Rapid Scene Processing".
(May 24) Anne Churchland presents "Tough choices: Decision-making among more than 2 alternatives".
(May 31) Rajeev Raizada of I-LABS presents "Perceptual discriminability of stimuli is predicted by separability of evoked neural patterns"
(Oct 4) Shani Cavanaugh presents "Short-Term Synaptic Depression Promotes Robust Spike Timing Precision in Neurons of the Chick Nucleus Magnocellularis"
(Oct 11) Nicoles Brunet presents "Behavior and neural responses in macaque inferotemporal cortex to dynamic visual stimuli"
(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 25) John Kelly presents a paper by Serge Dumoulin, Jeffrey Jirsch and Andrea Bernasconi entitled: "Functional organization of human visual cortex in occipital polymicrogyria."
(Nov 1) Fred Soo presents "Brightness and Darkness as Perceptual Dimensions" by Vladusich, Lucassen and Cornelissen from PLoS COmputational Biology 2007
(Nov 8) Orin Packer presents "S cones of macaque monkey retina are spectrally and spatially opponent"
(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
(Nov 29) Michael Rudd presents "Effects of Spatial Context and Attention on Lightness Perception: Computational and Neural Modeling"
(Jan 17) Greg Horwitz presents "Specialized Color Modules in Macaque Extrastriate Cortex" by Conway, Moeller, and Tsao (2007)
(Jan 24) Rebecca Meese presents "Developmental changes in the stimulus selectivity of cortical neurons"
(Feb 7) Victor de Lafuente presents "Neuronal correlates of subjective sensory experience"
(Feb 14) Peter Meilstrup presents "Two distinct visual motion mechanisms for smooth pursuit: evidence from individual differences" by Wilmer and Nakayama
(Feb 21) Roozbeh Kiani presents "Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes" by Ma, Beck, Latham and Pouget.
(Feb 28) Serap Yigit presents "Attentional mechanisms in visual signal detection: The effects of simultaneous and delayed noise and pattern masks"
(Mar 6) Ione Fine presents "V1 Projection Zone Signals in Human Macular Degeneration Depend on Task, not Stimulus"
(May 1) VSS practice talks and posters: two presentations currently scheduled
(May 15) ARVO and VSS meeting recap