2006 Schedule
Date
Speaker/Affiliation
Title
Wed 13th September
Ueli Rutishauser
Computation and Neural Systems Program, Caltech
Deployment of Feature-based Top-down Attention during Visual Search
Wed 27th September
Olivia Carter
Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Onset rivalrysuppression precedes sustained binocular rivalry
Wed 4th October
Elisabeth Hein
The influence of spatial attention on temporal perception: Differential effects of involuntary and voluntary attention
Fri 20th October
Ruxandra Sireteanu
Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research and Johann Wolfegana Goethe-University
Changing visual preferences in human infancy: evidence from texture segmentation and visual search
Wed 8th November
Barbara Hidalgo-Sotelo
Computational Visual Cognition Lab, Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT
Watching you learn: What eye movements reveal about experience-based visual search
Wed 22nd November
No seminar
Thanksgiving week
Wed 6th December
Michelle Greene
Natural Scene Recognition from Global Properties: Seeing the Forest from "Camouflaged+Enclosed" instead of the Trees
Wed 24th January
Takeo Watanabe
Vision Sciences Lab, Departments of Psychology & Cognitive & Neural Systems, Boston University
Greater disruption due to failure of inhibitory control on a task-irrelevant subthreshold feature
Wed 7th February
Patrick Cavanagh
Coordinates of Attention
Wed 21st February
Yuhong Jiang
Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Attentive tracking and spatial context learning
Wed 7th March
Mark Williams
Kanwisher Lab, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT
Do facial expressions direct our attention?
21st March
Eli Peli
Harvard Medical School & Schepens Eye Research Institute
Vision Multiplexing For People With Impaired Vision: The cognitive challenge
Danny Dilks
Human Adult Cortical Reorganization and Consequent Visual Distortion