UW Psychology | Vision Journal Club

(Apr 19, 2007)
Olavarria, J.F., Hiroi, R. (2003). Retinal Influences Specify Cortico-Cortical Maps by Postnatal Day Six in Rats and Mice. The Journal of Comparative Neurology, 459:156-172.

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 12, 2007)
Special Time: 1-2 on Thursday 12 April in 322 Harris Lab

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 5, 2007)
Gersch, Kowler and Dosher (2004). Dynamic allocation of visual attention during the execution of sequences of saccades. Vision Research, 44, 1469-1483.

Mel Goodale of the University of Western Ontario joins the locals in a discussion of "Future Directions in Visual Cognitive Neuroscience".

(Mar 8, 2007)
For more information about Mel Goodale's general audiance talk see: http://www.washington.edu/alumni//activities/lectures/2007psych_0307.html

Practice Talks for the 2nd International Workshop on Visual Attention

(Mar 1, 2007)
Talks by Geoffrey Boynton and John Palmer

No Vision Journal Club; But consider going to presentations of the trainees of the Vision Training Grant (11:30 Foege Aud., S-060)

(Feb 22, 2007)
The Department of Biological Structure and The Vision Training Grant invite you to the 2007 Trainee research presentations:

Steve Buck presents a paper by Mullen and colleages on the "Selectivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to color stimulation".

(Feb 1, 2007)
Kathy T. Mullen, Serge O. Dumoulin, Katie L. McMahon, Greig I. de Zubicaray, Robert F. Hess (2007). Selectivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to S-cone-opponent, L/M-cone-opponent and achromatic stimulation. European Journal of Neuroscience 25 (2), 491ñ502.

John Palmer presents background papers for a talk by John Jonides

(Jan 18, 2007)
John Palmer will present some of John Jonides' papers at VJC on Thursday 18 Jan. John Jonides from the University of Michigan is visiting UW the following day on Friday 19 Jan and will present a talk at 11 am in T-435 Health Sciences: "Using functional MRI to relate mind to brain". Most of his work is on memory, attention and executive function.

These research seminars are intended for faculty, graduate students and undergraduates that are interested in cognition and perception. In a typical meeting, a single speaker makes an informal presentation with many questions and much discussion. Talks are usually about new research by faculty, students and outside speakers. There are also practice talks for conference presentations and the Psychology Department Research Festival. For more information, contact John Palmer at jpalmer@u.washington.edu OR Adrienne Fairhall at fairhall@u.washington.edu.

Further information about the companion theory journal club can be found at:
http://faculty.washington.edu/fairhall/theoryjournalclub.shtml