Brown Bag Events

Hybrid Brown Bag: Maps through the ears

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023 – 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Investigating spatial knowledge acquisition through audio, Brandon will discuss the research he has been performing and plans to perform to...

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Hybrid Brown Bag: My perspective on Vision and Vision Rehabilitation

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Ophthalmology, visual science, and vision rehabilitation have significant areas of overlap. In this presentation, I want to discuss insights into...

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Zoom Brown Bag: A Virtual Environment for Training Blind People to Learn to Use Camera-Based Navigation Systems

Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Assistive navigation systems for blind people take images or videos as an input for various tasks such as finding the...

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Zoom Brown Bag: Studying sensory reweighting via the perception of gravity in aging with central vision loss

Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

To interact with the world around us, we must accurately perceive our environment and how we are moving within it....

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Zoom Brown Bag: Modeling the impairment of smooth pursuit eye movements in macular degeneration

Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most prevalent cause of central visual field loss. Since the fovea (oculomotor locus) is...

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Zoom Brown Bag: The development of visual temporal processing

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

The visual system must organize dynamic input into meaningful percepts across time, balancing between stability and sensitivity to change. The...

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Zoom Brown Bag: Eye Movement During Object Search and Its Comparison to Free Viewing

Wednesday, March 16th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Eye movement is an observable behavior relating to visual attention, which can be characterized into two types: one a bottom-up...

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Zoom Brown Bag: “Solving Perplexing PowerPoint Puzzles: A presentation within a presentation.”

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

This seminar will cover many fun, sometimes perplexing, features of PowerPoint. Topics include cropping videos, animating text, sharpening shapes, taming...

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Zoom Brown Bag: Mentorship

Wednesday, October 20th, 2021 – 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Jason and Preeti will lead the Ethics Seminar on Mentorship on Wednesday. As you know, attendance at the Ethics Seminar...

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Zoom Brown Bag: Noise in the Machine: Challenges and Potential Solutions for Wearable Eye Tracking, particularly in Individuals with Eccentric Fixation

Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Developments in wearable eye-tracking devices make them an attractive solution for studies of eye movements during naturalistic head/body motion. However,...

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Zoom Brown Bag: Neural representation of physical and perceived environmental acoustics

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Abstract – Most real-world hearing occurs in acoustically cluttered, reverberant environments, making perceptual segregation of sound sources critical. Reverberation signal...

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Zoom Brown Bag: A Friendly Introduction to Git and GitHub (for non-programmers… who have to program).

Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Abstract – Although programming may have once been a niche skill, the abundance of coding languages, environments, and libraries that...

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