Visual Attention Seminar Series 2009-2010

Date and Time

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

Wed 23rd September

1pm-2.30pm

Lauri Oksama

University of Turku, Finland

Multiple object versus multiple identity tracking: Is tracking parallel or serial?

Wed 7th October

1pm-2.30pm

Ed Vul

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Where's the limitation?  Human multiple object tracking as inference in a dynamic probabilistic model

Wed 4th November

1pm-2.30pm

Tim Buschman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visual Search in the (Non-Human) Primate Brain

Wed 18th November

1pm-2.30pm

Jan Theewes

Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands

The limits of top-down control in visual selection

Wed 2nd December

1pm-2.30pm

Melissa Vo

University of Edinburgh

Time to Integrate: Initial Scene Processing and Eye Movement Control

Wed 13th January

1pm-2.30pm

Trafton Drew

Visual Attention Lab

Harvard Medical School, BWH

Electrophysiological measures of difficulty manipulations and dynamic changes of target load during attentive tracking

Wed 27thJanuary

1pm-2.30pm

Martina Poletti

Boston University

Contributions and Challenges of Fixational Instability to Visual Perception

Wed 10th February

1pm-2.30pm

Camille Morvan

Harvard University

Imprecise and Incoherent Subjective Map of Internal Visual Uncertainty

Wed 17th February

1pm-2.30pm

Russell Epstein

University of Pennsylvania

Making a Scene in the Brain

Wed 10th March

1pm-2.30pm

Marc Pomplun

University of Massachusetts, Boston

Semantic Guidance of Eye Movements in Real-World Scenes

Fri 10th March

3pm-4.30pm

Ken Nakayama

Harvard University

Attention, Memory, Control and Action

Wed 7th April

1pm-2.30pm

Brandon Abbs

Brigham and Woman's Hospital

Sex Differences in Information Processing: Hormonal Regulation of Brain Structure and Function and its Implications for Schizophrenia

Wed 21stApril

1pm-2.30pm

Theresa Desrochers

MIT

The Natural History of a Habit