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Visual Processing & Eye Movement Journal Club
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Anca Velisar will be presening her own recently published paper: Velisar et al., in press. “Dual threshold neural closed loop deep...
Personal Safety
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 – 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Art Campos of the San Francisco SAFE, part of the Community Engagement Division of the San Francisco Police Department. Mr. Campos...
Visual Processing & Eye Movement Journal Club
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Natela will be presenting the paper “Strategies for Gaze Stabilization Critically Depend on Locomotor Speed,” Neuroscience. By Dietrich & Wuehr, 2019.
Presenting our Science
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: This is the first of a series of Brown Bag sessions about using the SKERI Website to communicate our...
Resilience and flexibility in the human brain: evidence from cognitive neuroscience studies of blindness
Thursday, March 21st, 2019 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: Flexibility is of the remarkable properties of the human brain. I will describe research on how the human brain...
Stereopsis in the periphery
Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: We have shown previously that individuals with dense central scotomas due to macular degeneration have better eye-hand coordination when...
Visual Processing & Eye Movement Journal Club
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Santani Teng will be presenting the paper “Sensitive Period for Cognitive Repurposing of Human Visual Cortex” (Kanjlia, Pant, & Bedny,...
Topographic population codes in primate V1
Thursday, March 14th, 2019 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: What is the nature of the neural code in primate primary visual cortex (V1)? Two key properties of primate...
Low Vision Support Group, 3/6/19: Adjusting to Failing Eyesight — The Role of Old Habits
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 – 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Our next speaker will be Dr. Manfred MacKeben. Dr. MacKeben will discuss how to deal with failing eyesight and the...
Energy, Quanta & Vision: An Updated Conceptualization
Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Abstract: One of the classic papers in the field of vision research is ‘Energy, Quanta and Vision’ (1942) by Hecht,...