Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep

Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

A new approach to understanding eye design

Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making

Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids

Professor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Monday 01 July 2019, 13:00-14:00

First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero

Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection

Michael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Binocular vision and the control of hand movements

Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms

Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."

Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Adaptation Produces Change-Salience

Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies

Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 25 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms

Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations

Dr Wei Wang.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 15 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis

John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A..

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion model

Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Mehrdad Jazayeri.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains

Professor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates.

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

Dr Janine Mendola (McGill).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain

Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory

The host for this talk is Dr Paul Bays

Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision

Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 02 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, second floor, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 04 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex

Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

"The koniocellular visual pathway"

Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

“How does melanopsin help us to see?“

Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

"Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing"

Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception

The host for this talk is Zoë Kourtzi (zk240@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Lynne Kiorpes (NYU).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience

In the Craik Club tradition, the administrative arrangements for this meeting are minimal. There is no registration fee. However, so that we can cater appropriately (and also for security reasons), we do ask you to sign up at http://doodle.com/poll/hrd

One day meeting on vision and neuroscience.

Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience: Physiology Main Lecture Theatre.

Monday 12 December 2016, 10:30-17:30

Attention filters for features

Professor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 18 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wings inform: mechanosensing in insect flight control.

The host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido

Tom Daniel (U. Washington, USA).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 06 July 2016, 13:00-14:00

Perception as a closed-loop convergence process

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location

Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. For directions see http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions.

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

“Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”

Professor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and diptera

The host for this talk is Paloma Gonzalez Bellido

Dr Mike Perry, NYU.

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, second floor, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Flight, flow and gaze control: Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes

Professor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Natural statistics and human perception of shape and gloss

The host for this talk is Dr Andrew Welchman

Wendy J. Adams, Southampton University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Colour perception in synaesthesia

Professor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRI

Dr Stelios Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual information

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Specular surfaces improve colour constancy

Dr. Robert Lee (Lincoln).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzle

Anna Hughes, PDN Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Visual perceptual learning: A new perspective

The host for this meeting is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

Professor Cong Yu, Peking University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 21 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Perceptual Organization of Shape

Dr James Elder, York University, Toronto.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 17 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss

Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi

Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’

Geoffrey M. Boynton, Jessica Thomas, and Ione Fine, University of Washington.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Fading and Filling-in

Professor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework.

Dr Kenneth Knoblauch, Inserm, Bron.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 27 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle: Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebrates

Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University, Canberra.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Color Transformations Across the Life Span: Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light

Professor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert

Wei Ji Ma (New York University).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 30 September 2014, 13:00-14:00

A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception.

Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience

Professor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects

Katherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization

Host: Professor Zoë Kourtzi

Dr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions

Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain

Dr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light

Dr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system: Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 days

Stephen Engel, University of Minnesota.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Disturbing vision: neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis

Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 14 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Individual differences in human perception

Dr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 07 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see?

Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Title to be confirmed

Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Perception of motion blur during eye movement

Professor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 July 2012, 13:00-14:00

Vision for reading

Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics

Professor Bill Newsome, Stanford.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 26 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

The wonder of hue: the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness

Sungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

A new look at human motor control

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed

Dr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 25 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.

Eero Simoncelli, New York University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

"Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia "

Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 30 April 2012, 13:00-14:00

"Genetic correlates of visual biases"

Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Colour Categories in Language and Thought

Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius

G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon, M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg..

Cavonius Centre, Stephen Hawking Building, Harvey Court, West Road.

Wednesday 11 January 2012, 10:00-18:00

A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday

Speaker to be confirmed.

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Benet Street (behind The Eagle pub, www.scisoc.com for directions).

Friday 09 December 2011, 17:00-18:00

How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1?

Professor Alex Wade, University of York.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds?

Dr Manca Tekavčič Pompe.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

Monday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Seeing in the dark: single-photon signals in the retina

Professor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 25 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

The Problem with Colour

We regret that the speaker has had cancel this talk for family reasons

Dr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern

Professor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 12 September 2011, 13:00-14:00

Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them?

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

Dr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology.

Second-floor seminar room, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Tuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception

Dr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

The effects of early visual deprivation

Dr Ione Fine, University of Washington.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

Monday 23 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Understanding and optimizing human motor learning

The host for this talk is Professor Daniel Wolpert, Engineering Dept.

Dr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Navigational guidance systems in the human brain

The host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept.

Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect'

This talk is being sponsored by St John's College: Kenneth Craik was a Fellow of St John's and described the 'Craik effect' in his Fellowship Dissertation

Professor Steve Shevell.

Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

Friday 25 March 2011, 17:00-18:00

Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs

Dr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Conserved principles of movement generation

The host for this talk is Dr. Máté Lengyel, Engineering Dept., m.lengyel@eng.cam.ac.uk

Mark Churchland, Stanford University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 11 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light'

Professor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor Learning

Prof. Maurice Smith, Harvard University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

“Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time”

Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry

Host: Jenny Bosten, Department of Experimental Psychology

Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 04 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance

Host: Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department

Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 27 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a

Dr. Patricia Jusuf.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging

Dr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour Discrimination

Professor Galina Paramei, Hope University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 16 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos

Dr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina

Dr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world

Prof. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 30 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representations

Professor József Fiser, Brandeis University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 17 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far?

Dr Peter Foldiak, St Andrews University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Perception, action and uncertainty

Prof. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 19 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it?

Dr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Monday 12 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

The Perception of Colour Seen in Context

Dr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Going with the flow: Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees

Professor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Recent developments in the chemical senses: a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists

Professor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

"The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye"

Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features

George Sperling, University of California, Irvine.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 16 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next

Dr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 July 2008, 13:00-14:00

Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging

Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Thursday 26 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Grandmother cells in the human brain?

Professor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movements

Dr. Petroc Sumner, Cardiff University.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Spatial vision in the periphery

Professor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 06 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision

This meeting marks the fortieth anniversary of the classic paper by Campbell and Robson (1968). The scientific meeting will be followed by a wine reception.

Professor Mark Georgeson.

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 16 April 2008, 17:00-18:00

Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008: How far have we come?

Dr. Peter Thompson, University of York.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 26 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons

Dr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Normalizing colour vision

Michael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Thursday 10 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

The machinery of colour vision

Professor P. Lennie.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 07 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in text

Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 03 July 2007, 13:00-14:00

Decoding consciousness

Geraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 26 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture

Adrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Thursday 07 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

How do we perceive motion direction?

Linda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 05 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia

Gary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 22 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes

Ruth Hogg, University of Melbourne.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

Thursday 10 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination

Jörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 27 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Visual discrimination of interacting human agents

Peter Neri, City University, London.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 24 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Variational free energy and the brain

Karl Friston, UCL.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Colour Vision Meeting

Speakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst.

Gonville and Caius College.

Wednesday 04 April 2007, 11:00-17:00

Date and Title to be confirmed

This talk has been canceled/deleted

Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Monday 19 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

The concatenation of factors of change in perception

Donald MacLeod, UCSD.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 23 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Biophysics of wiring the brain

Aldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound

Michael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 15 December 2006, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect

Jon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

Thursday 14 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Motion Perception - from visual arts to neural processing

Johannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 12 December 2006, 13:00-14:00

Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasks

Randy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 01 December 2006, 13:00-14:00

Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity

Simon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 17 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'?

David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Monday 13 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 24 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells

Trevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Wednesday 16 August 2006, 13:00-14:00

Kenneth Craik Club

Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic

Bruno Laeng, Department of Psychology, University of Tromso.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Friday 07 July 2006, 13:00-14:00

Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception

Jane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Monday 03 July 2006, 13:00-14:00

Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people

Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 30 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

Learning and recall of visuomotor transformations

John Krakauer, Columbia University.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Wednesday 24 May 2006, 13:00-14:00

On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing

Winrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 04 April 2006, 13:00-14:00

Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes

Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 21 March 2006, 13:00-14:00

Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI

Kathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Thursday 16 March 2006, 13:00-14:00

Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons

Salome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Thursday 23 February 2006, 13:00-14:00

The Trefethen Effect

David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 07 February 2006, 13:00-14:00

Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain.

Adrian Dyer.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Tuesday 24 January 2006, 13:00-14:00

Moving Colours

Annette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen.

Seminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

Wednesday 11 January 2006, 13:00-14:00