Vision Sciences Society Keynote Addresses

4 videos Last updated on August 18, 2020

Daniel Wolpert "Probabilistic Models of Human Sensorimotor Control"

Daniel Wolpert: Probabilistic Models of Human Sensorimotor Control. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Keynote 2011. The effortless ease with which humans move our arms, our eyes, even our lips when we speak masks the true complexity of the control processes involved. This is evident when ...

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Carla Shatz "Releasing the Brake on Ocular Dominance Plasticity"

Carla Shartz: Releasing the Brake on Ocular Dominance Plasticity. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Keynote 2010. Connections in adult visual system are highly precise, but they do not start out that way. Precision emerges during critical periods of development as synaptic connections rem...

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Robert H. Wurtz "Brain Circuits for Stable Visual Perception"

Robert H. Wurtz: Brain Circuits for Stable Visual Perception. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Keynote 2009. Abstract: In the 19th century von Helmholtz detailed the need for signals in the brain that provide information about each impending eye movement. He argued that such signals coul...

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Bruno Olshausen "VSS 2015 Keynote: Vision in Brains and Machines"

Vision Sciences Society Keynote Lecture 2015: Vision in Brains and Machines The past twenty years have seen important advances in both our understanding of visual representation in brains and in the development of algorithms that enable machines to 'see.' What is perhaps most remarkable about th...