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Program Schedule:
8:45--9:00am Breakfast
VISION
9:00 Lucia M. Vaina, BU-BRAVI
Introduction
The talks will be 30 minutes with 10 minutes discussion.
9:10 Maximilian Riesenhuber, MIT
"Object Recognition in Cortex: Model and Experiments"
9:50 Pawan Sinha, MIT
"Recognizing objects in degraded images"
10:30 Takeo Watanabe, BU
"Perceptual learning without perception"
11:10 Scott Beardsley, BU-BRAVI
"Opponent inhibition can account for discrimination in complex motion patterns"
11:50--12:00pm COFFEE BREAK
12:00--1:00pm IN A FLASH: EXCITING NEWS IN VISION!
15 minutes talks including discussion.
Yuri Ostrovsky, MIT
"Perceiving illumination inconsistencies in scenes"
Winfred Kao, BU-BRAVI
"Perceptual Learning of motion pattern discrimination: psychophysics and computational modeling"
Robert Pitts, BU-BRAVI
"Modeling improvements in the position invariance of MSTd neurons via lateral connectivity"
Milena Raffi, Rutgers & Bologna
"A functional architecture of optic flow in the inferior parietal cortex of the behaving monkey investigated by optical imaging"
LUNCH 1:00pm--2:00pm
ERB-401 (same building, 4th floor)
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THE BRAIN--NOVEL STUDY TECHNIQUES, NEW FINDINGS
2:00pm Colin McDonald, M.D., MGH
"TIA and Stroke: Diagnosis and treatment"
2:40pm Stelios Smirnakis, MGH
"Using fMRI to study macaque visual cortex reorganization"
3:20--3:30pm COFFEE BREAK
3:30pm Ion Florin Talos, BWH-Surgical Planning Laboratory
"Multi-modality image fusion for image guided neurosurgery"
4:10pm David Tuch, MGH-NMR Center
"Mapping cortical connectivity with diffusion MRI"
BREAK 4:50pm--5pm
5:00--6:00pm THE BRAIN IN A FLASH
15 minutes talks including discussion.
Kristen Parlman, MGH
"Physical therapy and stroke recovery"
Sergei Soloviev, BU-BRAVI
"fMRI in stroke patients: methods of data analysis"
Constance Royden, Holy Cross College
"Helping clarifying a long standing debate in vision: results on heading and structure from motion from a stroke patient"
Scott Beardsley, BU-BRAVI
"A computational model for a surprising global motion deficit found in a patient"
6:00--7pm THE BRAIN HURRICANE TALK
Ron Kikinis, BWH-Surgical Planning Laboratory
"High Performance Computing in Imaging Based Neuroscience"
7pm FEEDING THE BRAIN ERB-401
Wine and Cheese or the equivalent
All invited to join in friendly chat, fun, and hiding from the hurricane!
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