Videos tagged 'Vision Science Sponsored Talks'
Cambridge Research Systems sponsors talks at various academic meetings, enabling the organisers to invite international guest speakers, and helping keep registration costs as low as possible. Some of of our keynote sponsorships have been ongoing for many years, and you can access our full archive here.
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Robert H. Wurtz "Brain Circuits for Stable Visual Perception"
November 29, 2011
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 th...
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Carla Shatz "Releasing the Brake on Ocular Dominance Plasticity"
December 20, 2011
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 star...
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Daniel Wolpert "Probabilistic Models of Human Sensorimotor Control"
December 20, 2011
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 l...
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Ranulfo Romo "Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions"
November 14, 2012
Ranulfo Romo: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Keynote 2012. Most perceptual tasks require sequential steps to be carried out. This...
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Michael Tarr "Twenty years in twenty slides: A brief history of vision"
December 3, 2012
OPAM 2012 Keynote Address
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Larry Abbott "The Interaction of Evoked and Spontaneous Activity in Visual Processing"
December 7, 2012
Larry Abbott. VSS Keynote Address 2007: The Interaction of Evoked and Spontaneous Activity in Visual Processing. In vivo recordings from primary visual cortex reveal that spontaneous background act...
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Edward Callaway "Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of visual cortical circuits"
December 7, 2012
Edward Callaway. VSS Keynote Address 2008: Unraveling fine-scale and cell-type specificity of visual cortical circuits. We have studied primary visual cortex to better understand how neural circuit...
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Qasim Zaidi "Colour Group 2007: Color-Based Object Identification. Alternatives to Inverse Optics"
April 26, 2013
CRS invited talk at the Colour Group (GB) Vision Meeting. London, January 2007.
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Andrew Smith "New Directions in Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium 2007: Functional MRI: Beyond the Blob"
April 29, 2013
The standard fMRI group analysis is based on statistical detection of task-related brain activity that has a consistent location across brains. The use of this technique has revealed a great deal a...
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Sophie Wuerger "CGIV 2006: Colour Appearance and Cone Signals: How does the Human Brain Combine the Retinal Cone Signals to Yield Colour Sensations such as Red, Green, Yellow and Blue?"
April 30, 2013
What computation does the human brain perform when we experience "red" (or green, or yellow, or blue)? How does the human visual system combine the retinal cone signals (L, M, S cones) to yield the...
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Iain Gilchrist "AVA Annual Meeting 2007: Active Vision: Asking the Right Questions about Human Vision"
April 30, 2013
Iain highlights how it is vital that we study saccadic eye movement when researching vision. He demonstrates how many in the Vision Science community ignore two basic properties of vision that are ...
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Richard Bone "Coloured Filters in the Eye 2006: Macular Pigment Optical Density Determined by Reflectometry and Flicker: Is Flicker the Gold Standard?"
May 1, 2013
Heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP) is often regarded as setting the standard with which other methods of determining macular pigment optical density (MPOD) should be compared. We have develop...