Past Events

Past Events

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Zoom Brown Bag: Excitatory and Suppressive Contribution to Binocular Interactions in Human Visual Cortex

Zoom Brown Bag: Excitatory and Suppressive Contribution to Binocular Interactions in Human Visual Cortex

Wednesday, May 25th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Abstract – During binocular viewing, visual inputs from the two eyes interact at the level of visual cortex. In normal...


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

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...

Brown Bag


Zoom Colloquium: The Angry Crowd Bias: Social, Cognitive, and Perceptual Mechanisms

Zoom Colloquium: The Angry Crowd Bias: Social, Cognitive, and Perceptual Mechanisms

Tuesday, April 26th, 2022 – 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Accuracy and bias may seem at odds in perception. Yet they are as much complementary as they are contradictory. For...


Tuesday, Zoom Colloquium: Making Calculus Accessible

Postponed: Tuesday, Zoom Colloquium: Making Calculus Accessible

Tuesday, July 26th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Abstract - When Isaac Newton developed calculus in the 1600s, he was trying to tie together math and physics in...

Colloquium


Zoom Colloquium: Braille Literacy Rates in the U.S.: Knowing What We Don’t Know

Zoom Colloquium: Braille Literacy Rates in the U.S.: Knowing What We Don’t Know

Thursday, August 18th, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

For almost as long as braille has existed, researchers, advocates, educators, and innovators have been influenced by assumptions or beliefs...

Colloquium


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

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....

Brown Bag


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

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...

Brown Bag


Zoom Meeting: Career Paths Outside of Academia

Zoom Meeting: Career Paths Outside of Academia

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 – 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Abstract – Vision Research at Apple 12:00 – 12:35 pm Speakers: Andrew Watson – Distinguished Chief Vision Scientist, Apple Laura Walker...

Meeting


Zoom Brown Bag: The development of visual temporal processing

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...

Brown Bag


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

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...

Brown Bag