Visual Attention Seminar Series 2013-2014

Date and Time

Speaker/Affiliation

Title

Wed 18th September

1pm-2.30pm

Warren Reed

BSc (Hons), PGCert in TLHE, PhD

Perception in screening mammography: Can insertion of known abnormal cases alter expert reader behavior?

Wed 16th October

1pm-2.30pm

Ruth Rosenholtz

MIT department of Brain and Cognitive Science

Rethinking the roles of selective attention and economical encoding in vision

Wed 6th November

1pm-2.30pm

Jordan Suchow

Harvard Vision Lab

Memory maintenance in a partially observable mind

Wed 20th November

1pm-2.30pm

Bria Long

Harvard Vision Lab

Real-world size is reflected in mid-level shape features: Evidence from visual search

Tues 26th November

1pm-2.30pm

Maria Nordfrang

Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Selection of color singletons, nonspatial features, and locations – separate influences on attentional weights?

Tues 3rd December

1pm-2.30pm

Andrea Firth

Currency Development Team Bank of Canada

Understanding Authentication of Banknotes

Wed 4th December

1pm-2.30pm

Karen Schloss

Brown University

Understanding Color Preferences: An Ecological Approach

Tues 17th December

1pm-2.30pm

Preeti Sareen

Visual Attention Lab, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Attention span of a fly is not just a figure of speech

Tues 18th December

1pm-2.30pm

Francesca Fortenbaugh

Boston, VA Hospital

The influence of visual field boundaries on attentional resolution and crowding performance