Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

2318 Fillmore Street, San Francisco

 

Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Day: Visual Function and Deficits

 

 

Thursday March 22th, 2007

 

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

11:50 AM         Christopher Tyler               Head, Smith-Kettlewell Brain Imaging Center

                                                                                                            Introductory remarks

 

12:00 PM         Matteo Carandini                Imaging the dynamics of population responses in visual cortex

                                                                                                                       

12:45 PM                         Lunch break                                                 

                                                                                                                       

1:45 PM             Christopher Tyler               Advances in retinotopic and functional brain mapping

2:00 PM             Alex Wade                           High-density EEG mapping of surround suppression

2:15 PM             Lora Likova                         FMRI imaging of motion in third dimension

                                                                                                                       

2:30 PM             Mark D'Esposito                 Director, Wheeler Brain Imaging Center, UC, Berkeley

                                                                            Keynote address: Clinical aspects of functional imaging

                                                                                                                       

3:30 PM                           Tea break                                                        

                                                                                                                                               

3:45 PM             Creig Hoyt                           A clinician's case for functional scanning                   

4:00 PM             Stephen Heinen                  An oculomotor decision process revealed by fMRI                  

4:15 PM             Anthony Norcia                  Attentional modulation of motion responses in human visual cortex                  

4:30 PM             Kyoung.Min Lee                The cortical representation of a decision process

 

 

All Bay Area vision researchers welcome, but RSVP please  to Dr. Lora Likova  (lora@ski.org)

 

For directions to the Institute: http://www.ski.org/General/About/contact.html

 

For parking:  http://www.ski.org/General/About/directions.html#parking