Visual Attention Seminar Series 2007-2008

Date

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

Wed 12th September

Jeremy Wolfe

Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Visual search in scenes

Wed 26th September

Todd Horowitz

Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Recent advances in dynamic attention

Wed 10th October

George Alvarez

Computational Visual Cognition Lab, Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT

The representation of ensemble visual features outside the focus of attention

Wed 24th October

Riccardo Pedersini

Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Biased preferences: measurement of objective and subjective object features

Wed 7th November

Piers Howe

Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital

An fMRI investigation into multiple object tracking

Wed 14th November

David Freedman

Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School

Exploring the roles of the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes in visual learning, memory and recognition

Wed 21st November

No Seminar

Thanksgiving week

 

Wed 12th December

John Maunsell

Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Spatial attention and the tuning functions of individual cortical neurons

Wed 30th January

Tim Brady

Computational Visual Cognition Lab, Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT

Tracking statistical regularities to form more efficient memory representations

Wed 6th February

Aaron Seitz

Vision Sciences Lab, Boston University

Mechanisms of perceptual learning
Fri 8th February

Vidhya Navalpakkam

Division of Biology, Caltech

A theory of optimal gain modulation of visual features to maximize search performance

Wed 13th February

Antonio Torralba

Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

Object recognition by scene alignment

Wed 12th March

Amelia Hunt

Vision Sciences Lab, Harvard University

An interesting 100 milliseconds in which to examine vision and attention

Wed 9th April

Olivia Carter

Vision Sciences Lab, Harvard University

How do neurotransmitters help decide what we see?

Wed 23rd April

Karla Evans

Kanwisher Lab, Brain & Cognitive Science, MIT and Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hosipital

When basic visual and auditory features interact