2018-2019
Talks are held on Mondays from 12:15pm - 1:30pm on the dates listed, in Barchi Library (140 John Morgan Building).
We encourage graduate students and postdocs to have lunch with our visitors - please contact Jessica Marcus (jmarcus@upenn.edu) to sign up.
SPRING 2019
Color: a tool to understand the organization and operation of the ventral visual pathway
Monday, February 11: Neural mechanisms of pre-saccadic attention in the marmoset monkey Monday, February 25: Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task Monday, March 11: Monday, March 25: Monday, April 8: Monday, April 22: Fall
2018 Monday, September 24: Monday. October 22: Monday, November 5: Monday, November 19: Monday, December 3: 2017 2018 Vision Seminar Schedule 2016 2017 Vision Seminar Schedule 2015 2016 Vision Seminar Schedule 2014 2015 Vision Seminar Schedule 2013 2014 Vision Seminar Schedule 2012 2013 Vision Seminar Schedule 2011 2012 Vision Seminar Schedule 2010 2011 Vision Seminar Schedule 2009 2010 Vision Seminar Schedule 2008 2009 Vision Seminar Schedule 2007 2008 Vision Seminar Schedule
Jude Mitchell
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Dora Angelaki
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Christopher Westlake
NIH - Center for Cancer Research
Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling
Lindsey Glickfield
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University
Gautam Awatramani
Department of Biology, University of Victoria
Sylvia Pont
Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
Neena Haider
Department of Ophthalmology, Schepens Eye Institute, Masschusetts Eye and Ear
Gene Identification to Gene Therapy: Development of the First Broad Spectrum Therapy for Inherited Retinal Diseases
Monday, October 8:
Bas Rokers
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Motion Perception in Three Dimensions
Ilya Monosov
Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis
Why Would You Want to Know? Basal Ganglia Networks for Uncertainty Reduction
Ralf Haefner
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
Perceptual Decision-making as Hierarchical Probabilistic Inference: From Neural Correlations to Confirmation Bias
Erin Goddard
Department of Ophthalmology, CCD - ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Spatial and Feature-selective Attention Have Distinct Effects on Population-level Tuning
Alex Wade
Department of Psychology, University of York
Fly Vision and Its Application to Neurological Disease
Past Seminars:
For scheduling and other information please contact Diego Contreras (email or phone 215-573-8780)
The Vision Seminar is supported by
the National Eye
Institute through its Vision Training Grant to U. Penn.