Seminars

The Brain and Vision Research Laboratory hosts occasional research seminars. Anyone with an interest in cortical neurodynamics and networks in human systems neuroscience, or in methods development of analysis is encouraged to attend seminars in neuroscience at Boston University.

Past Seminars:

Seminars are held at 44 Cummington Mall unless mentioned otherwise.

When & Where	Speaker	Title
Friday – Jan 28, 2011 4:00pm Rm. 705	Dr. Albert-László Barabási Center of Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University and Department of Medicine, Harvard University.	“Network Medicine: From Complex Networks to the Human Diseasome;”
Fri., Nov. 19, 2010 4:00pm Rm. 705	Leonid Perlovsky Air Force Research Laboratory and Harvard University	“Signals Under Noise and Networks”
Tue., Aug. 10, 2010 9:00am Rm. 401	Mary Goldsmith	“A Robotic Assessment of Lower Extremity Motor Adaptation”
Thu., Jun. 3, 2010 9:30am Rm. 401	Elif M. Sikoglu Brain and Vision Research Laboratory	“Mechanisms and neuronal substrate involved in psychophysical tasks underlying visually guided navigation in humans”
Fri., Dec. 22, 2009 12:00pm Rm. 401	Finnegan J. Calabro Brain and Vision Research Laboratory	“Visual mechanisms underlying navigation in 3D environments”
Fri., Dec. 4, 2009 2:30pm Rm. 504	Dr. Marine Vernet IRIS Laboratory, CNRS, Paris, France	“Coordination of eye movements in 3D space in humans: cortical substrate studied by TMS”
Tue., Oct. 6, 2009 4pm Rm. 401	Dr. Heiko Hecht Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz	“Global and local motion in TTC estimation”
Mon., Aug. 31, 2009 10am Rm. 705	BRAVI Whole Day Retreat	Caught up to date with everbody’s research and discussed research plans for the coming year.
Mon., Apr.13, 2009 3pm Rm. 705	Dr. Nicolae Duta Nuance Communications	“Vision applications to automated medical diagnosis”
Wed., Apr.8, 2009 3pm Rm. 705	Dr. Nicolae Duta Nuance Communications	“Vision-based biometric (person identification) systems “
Tue., Apr. 22, 2008 5pm Rm. 705	Dr. Gianluca Campana University of Padova, Italy	“The neural basis of priming of motion direction and spatial position”
Tue., Apr. 22, 2008 5pm Rm. 705	Dr. Lars Michels Funktionelle Neurochirurgie, UniversitatsSpital Zurich, Switzerland	“EEG alpha distinguishes between cuneal and precuneal activation in working memory”
Wed., Mar.19, 2008 4pm Rm. 401	Dr. Peter Bex Schepens Eye Research Institute	“What Information Do We Use To Detect and Identify Natural Images?”
Tue., Oct. 30, 2007 4pm Rm. 401	Dr. Rick O. Gilmore Pennsylvania State University	“Development of Cortical Responses to Optic Flow”
Mon., Oct. 29, 2007 4pm Rm. 401	Dr. Simon Rushton Cardiff University	“Perception of Object Movement During Self-Movement”
Mon., Oct. 22, 2007 4pm Rm. 401	Dr. Laurenz Wiskott Bernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience Berlin & Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin	“Is slowness a learning principle for complex cells in V1 and visual invariances in IT?”
Fri., Jun. 8, 2007 3pm Rm. 401	Dr. Heiko Hecht Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz	“Time to Collision”
Mon., Jul. 24, 2006 10am Rm. 401	Dr. Scott A. Bearsley Brain & Vision Research Laboratory	“Optic Flow”-round table with Prof. Lucia M. Vaina, Finn Calabro, Elif Sikoglu, Dr.Robert Pitts
Fri., May 19, 2006 10am Rm. 401	Jutta Billino Justus Liebig University Giessen	“Motion perception under constraints”
Wed., Nov. 16, 2005	Dr. Scott A. Beardsley Brain & Vision Research Laboratory	Round table-present and future research
Tue., Oct. 11 & 18, 2005 4-5pm Rm. 203	Dr. Heiko Hecht Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz	“Time to collision” and “Time to passage”
Fri., June 4, 2004 1:00pm Rm. 203	Dr. Dae-Shik Kim Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Director of the Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston University School of Medicine	“High-resolution functional and diffusion tensor imaging of the mammalian visual system”
Fri., May 28, 2004 12:00pm Rm. 203	Dr. Kestutis Kveraga Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth College	“Sensorimotor Decisions, Eye Movements, And Uncertainty”
Fri., May 14, 2004 3:00pm Rm. 203	Dr. Frederick A. Miles Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, The National Eye Institute	“Vision and Eye Movements in a 3–D World”
Thu., Apr. 8, 2004 5:00-7:00pm Rm. 203	Prof. Emilio Bizzi, M.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology	“Motor Learning and Motor Control”
Thu., Mar. 25, 2004 5:00-7:00pm Rm. 203	Dr. Martin Giese Laboratory for Action Representation and Learning, Dept. of Cognitive Neurology, University Clinic Tbingen and Brain and Vision Research Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering Department, Boston University	“Modeling Learning Based Recognition of Biological Motion”
Thu., Feb. 26, 2004 5:00-7:00pm Rm. 203	Prof. Alan Cowey, F.R.S. Oxford University	“Plasticity in Blindsight”
Thu., Sep. 18, 2003 12:30-1:30pm Rm. 203	Dr. Dan Pollen Professor of Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center	“Does conscious visual perception emerge globally within transcortical multi-level recursive neural networks or do such networks endow selective cortical areas with properties that locally engender particular conscious experiences?”
Tue., May 13, 2003 12:00-1:00pm Rm. 203	Serge O. Dumoulin McGill Vision Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada	“Cortical specialization for processing first- and second-order motion”
Fri., Apr. 11, 2003 10:00-11:00am Rm. 401	Marc Pomplun, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School	“Attending to Motion: A Neural Model for Localizing and Labeling Simple Motion Patterns in Image Sequences”
Wed-Fri., Feb. 12-14, 2003 10:00-12:00pm Rm. 401	Christopher Tyler, Ph.D. Associate Director, Smith Kettlewell Institute, San Francisco	A series of 4 lectures on: “Ideal Observer”, “Summation Principles”, “An Overview of Human Depth Processing” and “Symmetry”
Fri., Jan. 31, 2003 10:00-11:00am Rm. 401	Simon Rushton, Ph.D. Centre for Vision Research, York University	“Intercepting Projectiles: From ‘When & Where’ to ‘Where Once’”
Fri., Dec. 13, 2002 11:00-12:00pm Rm. 401	Richard Born, M.D. Harvard Medical School	“Reassembling the Visual World: The Integration of Motion Cues by Cortical Neurons”
Fri., Nov. 15, 2002 11:00-12:00pm Rm. 401	Brad Duchaine, Ph.D. Vision Sciences Laboratory, Harvard University	“Investigations into prosopagnosia”
Fri., Oct. 25, 2002 11:00-12:00pm Rm. 401	David Salat, Ph.D. NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital	“MRI techniques to examine age and Alzheimer-related changes in the brain”
Tue., Jul. 16, 2002 1:00-2:00pm Rm. 203	Dr. Peter Foldiak Psychological Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, U.K.	“Invariance Learning”
Thu., Apr. 18, 2002 12:15-1:15pm Rm. 203	David Ingle	“2 Visual Systems Revisited”
Thu., Apr. 4, 2002 12:15-1:15pm Rm. 203	Jeremy Wilmer Department of Psychology, Harvard University	“Individual Differences in Low-Level Visual Motion Processing: A Study of Dyslexic Adults and Controls Across Motion Paradigms”
Thu., Dec. 6, 2001 4-5pm Rm. 401	Steven Stufflebeam, M.D. MGH-NMR Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA	“Introduction to Designing Magnetoencephalography Experiments”
Wed., Aug. 8, 2001 4-5pm Rm. 203	Dr. Markus Lappe Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept. Zoology & Neurobiology, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany	“Perception of Travel Distance from Optic Flow”
Wed., Feb. 21, 2001 4-5pm Rm. 203	Dr. Heiko Hecht Man-Vehicle Lab, MIT	“Visual Judgement of Collisions and Near Collisions: The Sorry State of Tau Theory”
Wed., Dec. 13, 2000 3-4:30pm Rm. 203	Ona Wu, M.Sc. MIT, MGH-NMR Center	“Diffusion and perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in acute human cerebral ischemia”
Tue., Oct. 25, 2000 3-4pm Rm. 401	Rick M. Dijkhuizen, Ph.D. MGH-NMR Center Harvard Medical School	“Functional MRI of Reorganization in Rat Brain after Stroke”
Tue., Oct 17, 2000 4-5pm Rm. 203	Dr. Rob Gray Nissan Cambridge Basic Research, Cambridge, MA	“What Can Motion Aftereffects Teach us About Action and Attention?”
Tue., Aug. 22, 2000 11-12pm Rm. 203	Dr. Alan Johnston Dept. of Psychology, University College London	“Why a Gradient Model Can See Second-Order Motion Though an Energy Model Can’t”
Thu., Aug. 3, 2000 11-12pm Rm. 203	Dr. Annette Schmid Institute of Neurology, University College London	“A fMRI Study of Anticipation and Learning in Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements”
Fri., Jul. 21, 2000 10-11am Rm. 401	Neel Varshney University of Alabama, Birmingham	“Current results for a competitive neural network model of feedforward processing from V1 to MT”
Wed., Apr. 26, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 203	Dr. Julie Harris Department of Psychology, University of Newscastle	“Are two eyes always better than one? Binocular information for determining object-motion and self-motion”
Wed., Apr. 19, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 203	Dr. Nouchine Hadjikhani NMR Center, Department of Radiology, MGH	“Colors in the Brain – Brains in Colors”
Wed., Apr. 5, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 203	Dr. Li Li Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School	“Heading Perception and Active Control of Steering during Translation and Rotation”
Mon., Mar. 27, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 203	Vlada Aginsky Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Science, Brown University	“Navigating with and without Landmarks in Virtual Reality”
Mon., Feb. 28, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 203	Martin A. Giese CBCL, MIT	“Representation of biological motion based on learned prototypical example patterns”
Mon., Jan. 31, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 401	Dr. Ian M. Thornton Nissan Cambridge Basic Research, Cambridge, MA	“Attending to Biological Motion”
Mon., Jan. 24, 2000 1-2pm Rm. 203	Dr. Moshe Bar Massachusetts General Hospital	“Mechanisms of object recognition revealed by subliminal visual priming”
Fri., Jan. 21, 2000 3-4pm Rm. 203	Orna Rosenthal Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel	“Unsupervised Perceptual Learning”
Fri., Jan. 14, 2000 2-3pm Rm. 203	Dr. Peter Földiák Center for Neuroscience, New York University	“Processing of rapid image sequences in the visual cortex”
Mon., Dec. 6, 1999 1-2pm Rm. 401	Dr. Martin Giese Center for Biological and Computational Learning, MIT	TBA
Mon., Nov. 22, 1999 1-2pm Rm. 203	Simon Rushton Nissan Cambridge Basic Research, Cambridge, MA	“An Eccentric Egocentric Model of Control of Locomotion on Foot”
Mon., Nov. 15, 1999 1-2pm Rm. 203	Professor Alan Cowey Oxford University	“Is Blindsight Motion Blind?”
Mon., Oct. 18, 1999 1-2pm Rm. 401	Maximilian Riesenhuber Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT	“A New Hierarchical Model of Object Recognition in Cortex”
Thu., Apr. 22, 1999 4pm Photonics Rm. 210	Dr. Leslie Welch Brown University	“Evidence for category learning in the visual system”
Tue., Apr. 20, 1999 4pm Rm. 401	Dr. David Somers MIT	“fMRI studies of visual attention and motion perception”
Thu., Apr. 8, 1999 4pm Photonics Rm. 210	Dr. William Warren Brown University	“Perception of heading from optic flow, cont.”
Mon., Apr. 5, 1999 5:30pm Rm. 401	Dr. Maarten J. van der Smagt Universiteit Utrecht	“The transparent motion aftereffect: what does it tell us about motion processing”
Thu., Feb. 25, 1999 5:30pm Photonics Rm. 210	Dr. Ehud Kaplan	“Color, size, and all the rest: how do they all fit together in the cortex”
Tue., Feb. 23, 1999 4pm Photonics Rm. 210	Dr. Barry Horowitz National Institute on Aging	“Functional neuroimaging data and neural modeling: delineating brain visual processing networks”
Thu., Feb. 11, 1999 4pm Photonics Rm. 210	Dr. Margaret Livingstone Harvard Medical School	“2-bar interactions in space and time: stereopsis and directionality”
Wed., Sep. 30, 1998 2:30pm Rm. 401	Dr. John Assad Harvard University	“Representing direction in parietal cortex during visual guidance”