Date and Time

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

Wed 3^rd September

1pm-2.30pm

Claudia Wilimzig

California Institute of Technology

Saliency and temporal integration for natural scenes

Wed 24^th September

1pm-2.30pm

Jim DiCarlo

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Untangling object recognition:  How does the visual system achieve “invariant” object representation.

Wed 1^st October

1pm-2.30pm

Won Mok Shim

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Capacity limit in attention and working memory

Wed 8^th October

1pm-2.30pm

Andrew Leber

University of New Hampshire

Mechanisms of cognitive control revealed through within-subject fluctuations of fMRI activity over time

Thurs 23^th October

3:00 PM

Larry Maloney

Department of Psychology
Center for Neural Science , New York University

Movement Planning under Risk versus Decision Making under Risk

Wed 19^th November

1pm-2.30pm

Ruth Rosenholtz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A Texture-Representation Model of Visual Crowding... And Visual Search?

Wed 3^rd December

11 am - 12.30pm

David Melcher

Center for Mind/Brain Studies,

University of Trento

The role of selective attention in trans-saccadic perception

Wed17^th December

11:30 pm-1.30pm

Erik Blaser

University of Massachusetts Boston

Illuminating the shadow economy of dark attention

Wed 21^st January

1pm-2.30pm

Stephen Grossberg

Boston University

The Resonant Brain: Learning, Attention, Memory, Search, and Consciousness.

Wed 4^th February

1pm-2.30pm

Justin Junge

Tufts University

A metric of simple and complex visual information

Wed18^th February

1pm-2.30pm

Adam Reeves

Northeastern University

Attentional release in the saccadic gap effect

Wed 25^th February

1pm-2.30pm

Daniel Dennett and Jeremy Wolfe

Tufts University and Visual Attention Lab

An informal discussion of visual awareness with Daniel Dennett and Jeremy Wolfe.

Wed 4^th March

1pm-2.30pm

Michael Zehetleitner

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

Salience and set size functions in feature search.

Wed 18^th March

1pm-2.30pm

Juergen Schmidhuber

Technische Universität München, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale

Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes.

Wed 1^st April

1pm-2.30pm

Aude Oliva

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A look at the Infinite Warehouse: How unique are visual representations in long-term memory?

Wed 8^th April

1pm-2.30pm

Yaoda Xu

Harvard University

Selecting and perceiving multiple visual objects in the mind and brain.

Wed 22^nd April

1pm-2.30pm

Edward K. Vogel

University of Oregon

Neural measures of selecting and tracking multiple moving objects.