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:
Jude Mitchell
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
Neural mechanisms of pre-saccadic attention in the marmoset monkey
Monday, February 25:
Dora Angelaki
Center for Neural Science, NYU
Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task
Monday, March 11:
Christopher Westlake
NIH - Center for Cancer Research Laboratory of Cell and Developmental Signaling
Exposing primary cilium assembly mechanisms
Monday, March 25:
Lindsey Glickfeld
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University
Neural correlates of perception in the mouse visual system
Monday, April 8:
no seminar
Monday, April 22:
Sylvia Pont
Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology
Lighting materials and materializing light
Monday, May 6:
Gautam Awatramani
Department of Biology, University of Victoria
Coarse and fine spatiotemporal coordination of excitation and inhibition underlying high-fidelity direction coding in the retina
Fall 2018
Monday, September 24:
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
Monday. October 22:
Ilya Monosov
Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis
Why Would You Want to Know? Basal Ganglia Networks for Uncertainty Reduction
Monday, November 5:
Ralf Haefner
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester
Perceptual Decision-making as Hierarchical Probabilistic Inference: From Neural Correlations to Confirmation Bias
Monday, November 19:
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
Monday, December 3:
Alex Wade
Department of Psychology, University of York
Fly Vision and Its Application to Neurological Disease
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