Visual Attention Seminar Series 2006-2007

Date and Time

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

Vision and Information Processing Lab, Penn State University

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

Computational Visual Cognition Lab, Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT

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

Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

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

Kanwisher Lab, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT

Human Adult Cortical Reorganization and Consequent Visual Distortion