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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.<\/p>\n

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Past Seminars:<\/b><\/p>\n

Seminars are held at 44 Cummington Mall<\/a> unless mentioned otherwise.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/colgroup>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
When & Where<\/th>\nSpeaker<\/th>\nTitle<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Friday \u2013 Jan 28, 2011
\n4:00pm
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		Dr. Albert-L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Barab\u00e1si
\nCenter of Complex Networks Research, Northeastern University and Department of Medicine, Harvard University.<\/i><\/td>\n		“Network Medicine: From Complex Networks to the Human Diseasome;”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Nov. 19, 2010
\n4:00pm
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		Leonid Perlovsky
\nAir Force Research Laboratory and Harvard University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Signals Under Noise and Networks”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Aug. 10, 2010
\n9:00am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Mary Goldsmith<\/td>\n“A Robotic Assessment of Lower Extremity Motor Adaptation”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Jun. 3, 2010
\n9:30am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Elif M. Sikoglu
\nBrain and Vision Research Laboratory<\/i><\/td>\n		“Mechanisms and neuronal substrate involved in psychophysical tasks underlying visually guided navigation in humans”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Dec. 22, 2009
\n12:00pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Finnegan J. Calabro
\nBrain and Vision Research Laboratory<\/i><\/td>\n		“Visual mechanisms underlying navigation in 3D environments”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Dec. 4, 2009
\n2:30pm
\nRm. 504<\/td>\n		Dr. Marine Vernet
\nIRIS Laboratory, CNRS, Paris, France<\/i><\/td>\n		“Coordination of eye movements in 3D space in humans: cortical substrate studied by TMS”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Oct. 6, 2009
\n4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Heiko Hecht
\nJohannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz<\/i><\/td>\n		“Global and local motion in TTC estimation”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Aug. 31, 2009
\n10am
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		BRAVI Whole Day Retreat<\/td>\nCaught up to date with everbody\u2019s research and discussed research plans for the coming year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Apr.13, 2009
\n3pm
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		Dr. Nicolae Duta
\nNuance Communications<\/i><\/td>\n		“Vision applications to automated medical diagnosis”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Apr.8, 2009
\n3pm
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		Dr. Nicolae Duta
\nNuance Communications<\/i><\/td>\n		“Vision-based biometric (person identification) systems “<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Apr. 22, 2008
\n5pm
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		Dr. Gianluca Campana
\nUniversity of Padova, Italy<\/i><\/td>\n		“The neural basis of priming of motion direction and spatial position”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Apr. 22, 2008
\n5pm
\nRm. 705<\/td>\n		Dr. Lars Michels
\nFunktionelle Neurochirurgie, UniversitatsSpital Zurich, Switzerland<\/i><\/td>\n		“EEG alpha distinguishes between cuneal and precuneal activation in working memory”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Mar.19, 2008
\n4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Peter Bex
\nSchepens Eye Research Institute<\/i><\/td>\n		“What Information Do We Use To Detect and Identify Natural Images?”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Oct. 30, 2007
\n4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Rick O. Gilmore
\nPennsylvania State University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Development of Cortical Responses to Optic Flow”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Oct. 29, 2007
\n4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Simon Rushton
\nCardiff University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Perception of Object Movement During Self-Movement”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Oct. 22, 2007
\n4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Laurenz Wiskott
\nBernstein Center of Computational Neuroscience Berlin & Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt-University Berlin<\/i><\/td>\n		“Is slowness a learning principle for complex cells in V1 and visual invariances in IT?”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Jun. 8, 2007
\n3pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Heiko Hecht
\nJohannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz<\/i><\/td>\n		“Time to Collision”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Jul. 24, 2006
\n10am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Scott A. Bearsley
\nBrain & Vision Research Laboratory<\/i><\/td>\n		“Optic Flow”-round table with Prof. Lucia M. Vaina, Finn Calabro, Elif Sikoglu, Dr.Robert Pitts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., May 19, 2006
\n10am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Jutta Billino
\nJustus Liebig University Giessen<\/i><\/td>\n		“Motion perception under constraints”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Nov. 16, 2005<\/td>\nDr. Scott A. Beardsley
\nBrain & Vision Research Laboratory<\/i><\/td>\n		Round table-present and future research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Oct. 11 & 18, 2005
\n4-5pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Heiko Hecht
\nJohannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz<\/i><\/td>\n		“Time to collision” and “Time to passage”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., June 4, 2004
\n1:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Dae-Shik Kim
\nAssociate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
\nDirector of the Center for Biomedical Imaging,
\nBoston University School of Medicine<\/i><\/td>\n		“High-resolution functional and diffusion tensor imaging of the mammalian visual system”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., May 28, 2004
\n12:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Kestutis Kveraga
\nDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Science,
\nDartmouth College<\/i><\/td>\n		“Sensorimotor Decisions, Eye Movements, And Uncertainty”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., May 14, 2004
\n3:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Frederick A. Miles
\nLaboratory of Sensorimotor Research,
\nThe National Eye Institute<\/i><\/td>\n		“Vision and Eye Movements in a 3\u2013D World”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Apr. 8, 2004
\n5:00-7:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Prof. Emilio Bizzi, M.D.
\nMassachusetts Institute of Technology<\/i><\/td>\n		“Motor Learning and Motor Control”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Mar. 25, 2004
\n5:00-7:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Martin Giese
\nLaboratory for Action Representation and Learning,
\nDept. of Cognitive Neurology,
\nUniversity Clinic T\u009fbingen
\nand
\nBrain and Vision Research Laboratory,
\nBiomedical Engineering Department,
\nBoston University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Modeling Learning Based Recognition of Biological Motion”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Feb. 26, 2004
\n5:00-7:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Prof. Alan Cowey, F.R.S.
\nOxford University
\n<\/i><\/td>\n		“Plasticity in Blindsight”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Sep. 18, 2003
\n12:30-1:30pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Dan Pollen
\nProfessor of Neurology,
\nDepartment of Neurology,
\nUniversity of Massachusetts Medical Center<\/i><\/td>\n		“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?”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., May 13, 2003
\n12:00-1:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Serge O. Dumoulin
\nMcGill Vision Research Unit,
\nDepartment of Ophthalmology, McGill University,
\nMontr\u00e9al, Canada<\/i><\/td>\n		“Cortical specialization for processing first- and second-order motion”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Apr. 11, 2003
\n10:00-11:00am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Marc Pomplun, Ph.D.
\nHarvard Medical School<\/i><\/td>\n		“Attending to Motion: A Neural Model for Localizing and Labeling Simple Motion Patterns in Image Sequences”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed-Fri., Feb. 12-14, 2003
\n10:00-12:00pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Christopher Tyler, Ph.D.
\nAssociate Director,
\nSmith Kettlewell Institute,
\nSan Francisco<\/i><\/td>\n		A series of 4 lectures on: “Ideal Observer”, “Summation Principles”, “An Overview of Human Depth Processing” and “Symmetry”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Jan. 31, 2003
\n10:00-11:00am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Simon Rushton, Ph.D.
\nCentre for Vision Research,
\nYork University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Intercepting Projectiles: From \u2018When & Where\u2019 to \u2018Where Once\u2019”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Dec. 13, 2002
\n11:00-12:00pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Richard Born, M.D.
\nHarvard Medical School<\/i><\/td>\n		“Reassembling the Visual World: The Integration of Motion Cues by Cortical Neurons”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Nov. 15, 2002
\n11:00-12:00pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Brad Duchaine, Ph.D.
\nVision Sciences Laboratory,
\nHarvard University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Investigations into prosopagnosia”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Oct. 25, 2002
\n11:00-12:00pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		David Salat, Ph.D.
\nNMR Center,
\nMassachusetts General Hospital<\/i><\/td>\n		“MRI techniques to examine age and Alzheimer-related changes in the brain”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Jul. 16, 2002
\n1:00-2:00pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Peter Fo\u009aldia\u0087k
\nPsychological Laboratory,
\nUniversity of St. Andrews,
\nSt. Andrews, U.K.<\/i><\/td>\n		“Invariance Learning”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Apr. 18, 2002
\n12:15-1:15pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		David Ingle<\/td>\n“2 Visual Systems Revisited”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Apr. 4, 2002
\n12:15-1:15pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Jeremy Wilmer
\nDepartment of Psychology,
\nHarvard University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Individual Differences in Low-Level Visual Motion Processing: A Study of Dyslexic Adults and Controls Across Motion Paradigms”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Dec. 6, 2001
\n4-5pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Steven Stufflebeam, M.D.
\nMGH-NMR Center,
\nMassachusetts General Hospital,
\nBoston, MA<\/i><\/td>\n		“Introduction to Designing Magnetoencephalography Experiments”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Aug. 8, 2001
\n4-5pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Markus Lappe
\nComputational and Cognitive Neuroscience,
\nDept. Zoology & Neurobiology,
\nRuhr-University, Bochum, Germany<\/i><\/td>\n		“Perception of Travel Distance from Optic Flow”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Feb. 21, 2001
\n4-5pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Heiko Hecht
\nMan-Vehicle Lab, MIT<\/i><\/td>\n		“Visual Judgement of Collisions and Near Collisions: The Sorry State of Tau Theory”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Dec. 13, 2000
\n3-4:30pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Ona Wu, M.Sc.
\nMIT, MGH-NMR Center<\/i><\/td>\n		“Diffusion and perfusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in acute human cerebral ischemia”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Oct. 25, 2000
\n3-4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Rick M. Dijkhuizen, Ph.D.
\nMGH-NMR Center
\nHarvard Medical School<\/i><\/td>\n		“Functional MRI of Reorganization in Rat Brain after Stroke”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Oct 17, 2000
\n4-5pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Rob Gray
\nNissan Cambridge Basic Research,
\nCambridge, MA<\/i><\/td>\n		“What Can Motion Aftereffects Teach us About Action and Attention?”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Aug. 22, 2000
\n11-12pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Alan Johnston
\nDept. of Psychology,
\nUniversity College London<\/i><\/td>\n		“Why a Gradient Model Can See Second-Order Motion Though an Energy Model Can\u2019t”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Aug. 3, 2000
\n11-12pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Annette Schmid
\nInstitute of Neurology,
\nUniversity College London<\/i><\/td>\n		“A fMRI Study of Anticipation and Learning in Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Jul. 21, 2000
\n10-11am
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Neel Varshney
\nUniversity of Alabama, Birmingham<\/i><\/td>\n		“Current results for a competitive neural network model of feedforward processing from V1 to MT”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Apr. 26, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Julie Harris
\nDepartment of Psychology,
\nUniversity of Newscastle<\/i><\/td>\n		“Are two eyes always better than one? Binocular information for determining object-motion and self-motion”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Apr. 19, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Nouchine Hadjikhani
\nNMR Center, Department of Radiology, MGH<\/i><\/td>\n		“Colors in the Brain \u2013 Brains in Colors”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Apr. 5, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Li Li
\nSchepens Eye Research Institute,
\nHarvard Medical School<\/i><\/td>\n		“Heading Perception and Active Control of Steering during Translation and Rotation”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Mar. 27, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Vlada Aginsky
\nDepartment of Cognitive and Linguistic Science,
\nBrown University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Navigating with and without Landmarks in Virtual Reality”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Feb. 28, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Martin A. Giese
\nCBCL, MIT<\/i><\/td>\n		“Representation of biological motion based on learned prototypical example patterns”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Jan. 31, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Ian M. Thornton
\nNissan Cambridge Basic Research,
\nCambridge, MA<\/i><\/td>\n		“Attending to Biological Motion”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Jan. 24, 2000
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Moshe Bar
\nMassachusetts General Hospital<\/i><\/td>\n		“Mechanisms of object recognition revealed by subliminal visual priming”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Jan. 21, 2000
\n3-4pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Orna Rosenthal
\nHebrew University,
\nJerusalem, Israel<\/i><\/td>\n		“Unsupervised Perceptual Learning”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fri., Jan. 14, 2000
\n2-3pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Dr. Peter F\u00f6ldi\u00e1k
\nCenter for Neuroscience,
\nNew York University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Processing of rapid image sequences in the visual cortex”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Dec. 6, 1999
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Martin Giese
\nCenter for Biological and Computational Learning, MIT<\/i><\/td>\n		TBA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Nov. 22, 1999
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Simon Rushton
\nNissan Cambridge Basic Research,
\nCambridge, MA<\/i><\/td>\n		“An Eccentric Egocentric Model of Control of Locomotion on Foot”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Nov. 15, 1999
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 203<\/td>\n		Professor Alan Cowey
\nOxford University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Is Blindsight Motion Blind?”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Oct. 18, 1999
\n1-2pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Maximilian Riesenhuber
\nDept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT<\/i><\/td>\n		“A New Hierarchical Model of Object Recognition in Cortex”<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Apr. 22, 1999
\n4pm
\nPhotonics<\/a>
\nRm. 210<\/td>\n		Dr. Leslie Welch
\nBrown University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Evidence for category learning in the visual system”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Apr. 20, 1999
\n4pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. David Somers
\nMIT<\/i><\/td>\n		“fMRI studies of visual attention and motion perception”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Apr. 8, 1999
\n4pm
\nPhotonics<\/a>
\nRm. 210<\/td>\n		Dr. William Warren
\nBrown University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Perception of heading from optic flow, cont.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mon., Apr. 5, 1999
\n5:30pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. Maarten J. van der Smagt
\nUniversiteit Utrecht<\/i><\/td>\n		“The transparent motion aftereffect: what does it tell us about motion processing”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Feb. 25, 1999
\n5:30pm
\nPhotonics<\/a>
\nRm. 210<\/td>\n		Dr. Ehud Kaplan<\/td>\n“Color, size, and all the rest: how do they all fit together in the cortex”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tue., Feb. 23, 1999
\n4pm
\nPhotonics<\/a>
\nRm. 210<\/td>\n		Dr. Barry Horowitz
\nNational Institute on Aging<\/i><\/td>\n		“Functional neuroimaging data and neural modeling: delineating brain visual processing networks”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thu., Feb. 11, 1999
\n4pm
\nPhotonics<\/a>
\nRm. 210<\/td>\n		Dr. Margaret Livingstone
\nHarvard Medical School<\/i><\/td>\n		“2-bar interactions in space and time: stereopsis and directionality”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wed., Sep. 30, 1998
\n2:30pm
\nRm. 401<\/td>\n		Dr. John Assad
\nHarvard University<\/i><\/td>\n		“Representing direction in parietal cortex during visual guidance”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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