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Updated: Tue, Jul 15, 2008
Vision Research Seminar Series - Previous Guest Speakers
Date Previous Speakers
April 23, 2007 Martin Pare
Departments of Physiology and Psychology
Queen's University

Saccade target selection by synchrony
between and within sensory-motor neuronal populations

April 4, 2007 Xiao-Jing Wang
Department of Neurobiology
Yale University School of Medicine

A Recurrent Circuit Mechanism of Stochastic
Decision Making
Sept. 6, 2006
Mark Laubach, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
Yale Univeristy School of Medicine
Assistant Fellow, The John B. Pierce Laboratory


Top-down control of sensorimotor performance by dorsomedial prefrontal cortex
April 19, 2006 Tirin Moore, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Title: Visuomotor origins of Covert Spatial Attention
March 22, 2006 Steve Engel
UCLA

Learning and Adaptation in Visual Cortext
March 10, 2006 Bill Zagotta
University of Washington

Molecular Mechanisms of Activation of Ion Channels by Cyclic Nucleotides
February 15, 2006
Yang Dan
UC Berkeley

Coding of Natural Stimuli in Visual Cortex
December 14, 2005
Yuzo Chino, Ph.D.
Benedict-McFadden Professor
College of Optometry, University of Houston

Postnatal Development of Receptive-Field
Center-Surround Mechanisms in V1 and V2
of Macaque Monkeys
August 18, 2005 Maureen Powers, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist Gemstone Foundation

Title: Vision and Reading
March 23, 2005 Bill Geisler
University of Texas at Austin

Optimal Eye Movement Strategies in Visual Search
March 2, 2005 Rudiger von der Heydt
Johns Hopkins University

Figure-Ground Organization in the Visual Cortex
February 9, 2005 Alexander M Dizhoor
Pennsylvania College of Optometry

Guanylyl Cyclase Activating Proteins:
Calcium-Magnesium Sensors in
Phototransduction and Congenital Retinal Dystrophy
December 8, 2004 Greg DeAngelis
Washington University

Linking Neural Representation to Function
in Stereoscopic Depth Perception
November 8, 2004 Leslie G. Ungerleider
National Institute of Mental Health

How the brain pays attention
March 22, 2004 Charles Schroeder
Cognitive Neuroscience & Schizophrenia Program
Nathan Kline Institute & Department of Neuroscience
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Field Potential Analysis of Spatiotemporal Dynamic
in Visual Processing and Selective Attention
March 1, 2004 Ed Callaway
Systems Neurobiology Laboratories
Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Parallel Pathways and Local Circuits in Visual Cortex
Oct. 20, 2003 Peter Schiller
MIT

Look and See: How the Brain Does It

Oct. 13, 2003 Eileen Kowler
Rutgers University

Why do we look the way we do? The role of attention
in the control of saccadic eye movements
Oct. 6, 2003 Steven Yantis
Johns Hopkins University

Mechanisms of Attentional Control in Human Cortex

May 19, 2003 Steven Wise
National Institute of Mental Health

The Neural Basis of Symbolically Guided Action in Nonhuman Primates
April 7, 2003 Jon Horton
University of California, San Francisco
Department of Ophthalmology

Do Ocular Dominance Columns Serve any Purpose?
March 24, 2003 Brian Wandell
Stanford University Psychology Department

Computational Neuroimaging Tracing Color Responses from Retina Through Visual Cortex
Feb. 28, 2003 Keith Holyoak
Department of Psychology UCLA

Relational Reasoning in Working Memory
Nov. 18, 2002 Patrick Cavanagh
Department of Psychology, Harvard University

The Language of Vision
Oct. 4, 2002 William Newsome
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine

Probability matching in rhesus monkeys: a behavioral and neurophysiological analysis
Sept. 19, 2002 Hugh Wilson
ORDCF Professor of Biological & Computational Vision
York University • Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Freud: First Cognitive Neuroscientist?
Sept. 9, 2002 Mark Nawrot
Department of Psychology
North Dakota State University

Slow eye movements in the perception of depth from motion paraliax