WINDOWS INTO THE DYNAMIC BRAIN

WINDOWS INTO THE DYNAMIC BRAIN
A mini-Symposium

Friday, May 13th, 10:00am - 6:30pm
44 Cummington St., Room ERB-220

Sponsored by the Brain and Vision Research Laboratory
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Program Schedule:

10:00 Lucia M. Vaina
Introduction

10:05 Eli Peli
"Near-Peripheral Vision Reorganization in Macular Degeneration"

11:00 Scott Beardsley & Lucia Vaina
"Recovery of local motion mechanisms as revealed by spatial summation"

11:30 Antoni Valero-Cabre
"Transient induction but permanent cancellation of visuo-spatial neglect with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on highly 'flexible' attentional networks"

12:15 Lunch Break

1:30 Aaron Seitz
"Rethinking the roles of attention in perceptual learning"

2:15 Ruxandra Sireteanu
"Perceptual learning and visual search"

3:00 Finn Calabro
"Learning Stereomotion"

3:20 Break

3:45 Brad Duchaine
"Prosopagnosia and face-specific mechanisms"

4:30 Bernd Heisele
"Part based detection and recognition of objects in images"

5:15 Martin Giese
"Neural mechanisms of the learning of biological motion"

5:45 Serge Soloviev
"Modeling of coordinate transformations in the human brain"

6:05 Robert Pitts
"Learning position-invariant motion pattern detection via lateral connectivity"

6:25 Wrap up