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Stephen Palmisano (University of Wollongong)
April 12, 2024

John Tsotsos (York University)
January 26, 2024

Naseem Al-Aidroos (University of Guelph)
January 19, 2024

Stefan Everling (Western University)
November 24, 2023

Armin Bahl (University of Konstanz)
November 17, 2023

Yalda Monsenzadeh (Western University)
October 27, 2023

Stephanie Badde (Tufts University)
September 20, 2023

Brad Wyble (Penn State University)
October 13, 2023

Olga Veksler (University of Waterloo)
September 29, 2023

Anna Kosovicheva (University of Toronto)
September 22, 2023

Jeff Schall (York University)
September 15, 2023

Brian Scholl (Yale University)
April 14, 2023

Johannes Burges (University of Pennsylvania)
March 31, 2023

David Shore (McMaster University)
March 24, 2023

Jonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego)
March 10, 2023

Kei Fukyda (University of Toronto)
February 17, 2023

James Elder (York University)
January 27, 2023

Dirk Bernhardt-Walther (University of Toronto)
January 20, 2023

Morgan Barense (University of Toronto)
January 13, 2023

Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari (York University)
January 6, 2023

Isabel Gauthier (Vanderbilt University)
November 25, 2022

Marcus Watson (York University)
November 11, 2022

Katalin Kariko (University of Pennsylvania)
October 28, 2022

Ella Striem-Amit (Georgetown University)
October 21, 2022

Martin Rolfs (Humboldt University)
October 7, 2022

Marieke Mur (Western University)
September 30, 2022

Ben Wolfe (University of Toronto)
September 23, 2022

Hamid Ramezanpour (York University)
September 16, 2022

Antonio Damasio (University of Southern California)
April 22, 2022

Jennifer Steeves (York University)
April 1, 2022

Richard Bowden (University of Surrey)
March 18, 2022

John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins)
March 11, 2022

Gordon Binsted (York University)
March 4, 2022

Kosta Derpanis (York University)
February 25, 2022

Chrystalina Antoniades (Oxford)
February 18, 2022

Liya Ma ()
January 21, 2022

Ryan Schott (York University)
January 14, 2022

Jorge Riera Diaz (Florida International University)
December 10, 2021

Katherine Cullen (Johns Hopkins)
December 3, 2021

Krista Kelly (Retina Foundation of the Southwest)
November 26, 2021

Maria Geffen (University of Pennsylvania)
November 19, 2021

Peter Scarfe (University of Reading)
November 12, 2021

Kohitij Kar (MIT)
October 29, 2021

Michael Graziano (Princeton)
October 22, 2021

Benjamin de Haas (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
October 1, 2021

Meike Ramon (University of Fribourg)
September 24, 2021

Morteza Rezanejad (University of Toronto)
September 17, 2021

Matthias Bethge (University of Tubingen, Max Planck Institute)
April 30, 2021

Brent Fajen Rensselaer (Polytechnic Institute)
April 23, 2021

Stephanie Palmer (University of Chicago)
April 16, 2021

Ian Phillips (Johns Hopkins University)
April 9, 2021

Megan Peters (University of California Irvine)
March 26, 2021

Phil Kellman (University of California Los Angeles)
March 19, 2021

Pascal Mamassian (Ecole Normale Superieure)
March 12, 2021

Francesco Lacquaniti (University of Rome)
March 5, 2021

Manuel Gomez-Ramirez (University of Rochester)
February 26, 2021

Marisa Carrasco (New York University)
February 19, 2021

Margaret Livingstone (Harvard University)
February 12, 2021

Laurence Harris (York University)
February 5, 2021

Christof Koch (Allen Institute)
January 22, 2021

Zhaoping Li (University of Tubingen, Max Planck Institute)
January 15, 2021

Roger Enoka (University of Colorado, Boulder)
December 18, 2020

Odelia Schwartz (University of Miami)
December 11, 2020

Nikolaus Krigeskorte (Columbia University)
December 4, 2020

Paula di Nota (University of BC)
November 27, 2020

Beth Irving (University of Waterloo)
November 20, 2020

Jody Culham (Western University)
October 23, 2020

Kristen Grauman (UT Austin)
October 16, 2020

Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe Inc.)
October 9, 2020

Daphne Maurer (McMaster)
October 2, 2020

Melanie Boly (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
September 18, 2020

Shital Desai (York University)
September 11, 2020

Richard Murray (York University)
April 24, 2020

Joe DeSouza (York University)
April 17, 2020

Georg Zoidl (York University)
March 6, 2020

Bryan Tripp (University of Waterloo)
February 14, 2020

Joyce Chen (University of Toronto)
January 24, 2020

Juno Kim (University of New South Wales)
January 10, 2020

Sheng He (University of Minnesota)
December 13, 2019

Larry Maloney (New York University)
December 6, 2019

Ozzy Mermut (York University)
December 2, 2019

David Field (Cornell University)
November 15, 2019

Kevin Lande (York University)
November 8, 2019

Peter Kohler (York University)
November 1, 2019

Fields Institute (Workshop on Mathematics of Vision)
October 18, 2019

Adam Snyder (University of Rochester)
October 11, 2019

Mike Landy (New York University)
October 4, 2019

Galia Avidan (Ben-Gurion University)
September 27, 2019

Jacqueline Snow (University of Nevada, Reno)
September 20, 2019

Ralf Haefner (University of Rochester)
September 12, 2019

Sarah Johnson (University of Florida)
September 6, 2019

Dorita Chang (University of Hong Kong)
May 24, 2019

Maz Fallah (York University)
May 10, 2019

Bas Rokers (University of Wisconsin)
May 3, 2019

Alan Gilchrist (Rutgers University)
April 23, 2019

Rick Wildes (York University)
April 12, 2019

Thomas Serre (Brown University)
April 5, 2019

Joel Zylberberg (York University)
March 22, 2019

Michael Barnett-Cowan (University of Waterloo)
March 15, 2019

Mark Halko (Harvard University)
March 8, 2019

Jean Blouin (Aix-Marseille University)
March 1, 2019

Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT)
February 22, 2019

Michael Schutz (McMaster University)
February 1, 2019

Chaz Firestone (Johns Hopkins University)
January 25, 2019

Elissa Aminoff (Fordham University)
January 11, 2019

Philippe Lefevre (University of Leuven)
January 4, 2019

Patrick Cavanagh (York University)
December 14, 2018

Frederic Gosselin (Universite de Montreal)
December 7, 2018

Allan Jepson (University of Toronto)
November 30, 2018

Steve Connor (York University)
November 23, 2018

Bas Rokers (University of Wisconsin)
November 16, 2018

Gene Cheung (York University)
November 2, 2018

Jed Meltzer (University of Toronto)
October 26, 2018

Amir Sodagar (York University)
October 19, 2018

Svetlana Lazebnik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
September 28, 2018

Aarlene Kahn (Universite de Montreal)
September 21, 2018

Erez Freud (York University)
September 14, 2018

Babak Taati (University of Toronto)
May 25, 2018

Pietr Medendrop (Radboud University)
April 13, 2018

Srikumar Ramalingam (University of Utah)
April 6, 2018

Steve Waslander (University of Toronto)
March 15, 2018

Larry Cormack (University of Texas, Austin)
March 9, 2018

Jim Rehg (Georgia Institute of Technology)
December 1, 2017

Patrick Cavanagh (York University)
October 6, 2017

Niko Troje (York University)
September 29, 2017

Steven Brown (McMaster)
Origins of the vocal brain in humans
September 22, 2017

Daniel Worrall (UCL)
Harmonic Networks: Deep Rotation and Translation Equivariance
September 15, 2017

Sven Dickinson (UofT)
The Perceptual Advantage of Symmetry for Scene Perception
June 23, 2017

Jean Chen (Baycrest)
May 12, 2017

Mark Halko (Harvard)
Non-invasively modulating the networks of cognition
May 5, 2017

Ryan Stevenson (Western University)
The role of audiovisual temporal processing in speech perception
April 28, 2017

Guy Proulx (York University)
Optimal, normal and dysfunctional cognitive aging
April 21, 2017

Brad Goodyear (University of Calgary)
Making Actual Statistical Inferences from Dynamic Functional Connectivity: Bringing an End to Sliding-Window Cross-Correlation
April 20, 2017

Heather McGregor (Western)
March 31, 2017

Melanie Campbell (Waterloo)
Diagnostic Imaging in the Eye and through the Eye, the Brain
March 21, 2017

Amir Amedi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) & Lily Safra (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Can we teach blind to see with the ears? Can we create novel sensory experiences?
March 17, 2017

Sarah R. Heilbronner (University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry)
Linking networks and circuits: A systems neuroscience perspective on the default mode network
March 9, 2017

Jeffrey Mogil (McGill University)
Pain in Mice and Man: Ironic Adventures in Translation
February 17, 2017

Graham Taylor (University of Guelph)
Dataset Augmentation in Feature Space
January 25, 2017

Sarah Heilbronner (University of Rochester Medical Center)
The biology of the default mode network: Connectivity and homologies across species
January 20, 2017

Mariana Figueiro (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) & Mark Rea (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
January 17, 2017

Heather Edgell (York University)
Sex differences in brain blood flow and autonomic function
December 9, 2016

Michael Jenkin (York University)
Visually guided underwater robots
December 2, 2016

Claudia Lunghi (Pisa)
Short-term visual cortical plasticity in adult humans
November 21, 2016

Blake Richards (UofT Scarborough)
Biologically feasible deep learning with multi-compartment neuron models
November 18, 2016

Hitesh Shah (Spin Master, Toronto)
The Future of Play
November 11, 2016

Michael Thaut (UofT)
Music, brain, and neurorehabilitation
October 21, 2016

Marcus Brubaker (York University)
Computer Vision as Model Building
October 14, 2016

Dr. Harish Bhaskar (Khalifa University)
Analysis of context in detection, tracking and behavioural modelling for situation awareness applications
July 22, 2016

Patrick Cavanagh (University of Paris & Dartmouth)
Where
June 10, 2016

Matthias Niemeier (UofT)
Right-dominant mechanisms underlying spatial attention and visual awareness
June 7, 2016

Derek Wilson (York University)
When proteins go rogue: Conformational disorders in neurodegenerative diseases
May 6, 2016

Jay Pratt (UofT)
Do objects guide visual attention?
April 22, 2016

Cheryl Grady (Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest)
Age differences in the dynamic range of brain activity
April 15, 2016

Julio Martinez-Trujillo (Western)
Spatial representations and cognition in the primate brain: from attentional templates to associative memories
April 8, 2016

Robin Kramer (University of York, UK)
March 22, 2016

Jackie Sullivan (Western)
The Research Domain Criteria Project: Can Neuroscience Revolutionize Psychiatric Classification?
March 18, 2016

Hugh Wilson (York University)
From Orientations to Objects: Subspace Projections in the Ventral Stream
March 11, 2016

John Tsotsos (York University)
A focus of selection for fixation
March 4, 2016

Christine Till (York University)
Cognitive development in pediatric multiple sclerosis
February 26, 2016

Shaul Hochstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The power of populations: Perceiving features and summary statistics
February 10, 2016

Maz Fallah (York University)
Feature Integration in the Dorsal Stream
February 2, 2016

Lauren Sergio (York University)
Using cognitive-motor integration to assess function pre-dementia and post-concussion
January 15, 2016

Chandan Narayan (York University)
The nature of speech processing
December 11, 2015

Michael Barnett-Cowan (Waterloo)
December 4, 2015

Doug Crawford (York University)
Cellular Basis of Spatial Working Memory During Simple Gaze Behaviors
November 27, 2015

Ian Bruce (McMaster)
Signal processing in the mammalian auditory cortex
November 20, 2015

Graham Wakefield (York University)
Enlivened Computational Worldmaking
November 6, 2015

Leonid Brown (University of Guelph)
Primitive vision in bacteria and fungi – biophysical studies of microbial rhodopsins
October 30, 2015

Natasha Rajah (McGill)
Role of different brain regions in the recollection of personal memories
October 23, 2015

Behrang Keshawarz (Toronto Rehabiltation Institute)
Unraveling mechanisms of illusory self-motion perception: Different approaches for vection research
October 9, 2015

Ken Kihara (Kagoshima University)
Voluntary triggering of visual stimulus facilitates attention
October 2, 2015

Chetan Phadke (West Park Healthcare Centre)
The relationship between spasticity and gait post-stroke
September 25, 2015

Aristotle Voineskos (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health)
Mapping gene effects in the brain to discern vulnerability pathways forsevere mental illness
April 17, 2015

W. Dale Stevens (York University)
What Drives the Category-Related Organization of Human Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex?
March 27, 2015

Georg Zoidl (York University)
Understanding electrical communication in the brain through genome engineering
March 20, 2015

Doug Munoz (Queen’s University)
Using eye movements to investigate healthy and abnormal aging
March 16, 2015

Dr. Marcus Watson (Ophthalmology Research Lab)
Learning to categorize
March 6, 2015

Stephen Prescott (The Hospital for Sick Children)
Aberrations is CNS sensory processing leading to chronic pain
February 27, 2015

Casper Erklens (University of Utrecht)
Perspective angles: theory, experiment and application
February 12, 2015

Cheryl McCormick (Brock University)
Adolescence as a sensitive period to the effects of social stressors: Long-lasting effects on social behaviour
December 12, 2014

Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)
Brain-Computer Interfacing in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
November 25, 2014

Carol Greenwood (Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest)
November 21, 2014

Wendy Adams (University of Southampton)
Southampton-York Natural Scenes (SYNS) Dataset
November 14, 2014

Dirk Bernhardt-Walther (UofT)
The neural mechanisms of natural scene categorization
November 7, 2014

Alexandra Reichenbach (University College London)
Neural implementation of visually-guided action in the human brain
November 4, 2014

David Melcher (University of Trento)
Non-retinotopic visual perception: why the world is stable when we move our eyes
October 21, 2014

Mark Dalecki (German Sport University Colonge)
Human fine motor skills and cognitive performance in extreme environments
October 17, 2014

Curtis Baker (McGill)
Form-cue invariant second-order neuronal responses in primate area V2
September 12, 2014

Markus Lappe (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Eye position dependence of saccadic adaptation
September 9, 2014

Stuart Anstis (UCSD)
May 23, 2014

Denis Pelli (NYU)
A double dissociation of acuity and crowding in object recognition
April 25, 2014

Sue Becker (McMaster)
Neural mechanisms of visuospatial memory and imagery: A computationl model, empirical evidence and applications to brain-computer interfaces
March 21, 2014

Kazutake Uehira (Kanagawa Institute of Technology)
Predicting Visually Perceived Depth
March 14, 2014

Lucilla Cardinali (Western University)
Tools as body parts. How far can we push incorporation and body representation plasticity?
March 14, 2014

Andy Lee (UTSC)
Clarifying the role of the medial temporal lobe in ‘perception’
March 7, 2014

Dr. Sylvain Moreno (Baycrest)
Brain plasticity from perception to cognition
February 24, 2014

Pat Byrne (York University)
Influences of the unseen: Multiple object tracking reveals how unattended visual stimuli have a critical influence on the perception of location
February 14, 2014

Diana Gorbet (York University
Sex differences in the human brain
February 7, 2014

Georg Zoidl (York University)
Electrical Synapses in the Visual System of the Zebrafish: From Genes to Functions
November 29, 2013

Andrei Barbu (MIT)
Reasoning across language and vision in machines and humans
November 22, 2013

Richard Zemel (UofT)
Anti-Discriminant Analysis
November 15, 2013

Michael Langer (McGill)
Perception of shape from shading, highlights, and mirror reflections
October 25, 2013

Mohan Matthen (UofT)
Active Perception and the Representation of Spacespeaker
October 18, 2013

Naseem Al-Aidroos (Guelph)
Top-down attention switches coupling between low-level and high-level areas of human visual cortex
September 24, 2013

Kari Hoffman (Vanderbilt University)
Search and rescue operations: neural synchrony during active perception and memory
September 20, 2013

Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko (McMaster)
The Development of Perceptions of Facial Attractiveness
September 6, 2013

John Wilder (UofT)
Shape Categorization and Detection: Global and Local Representations
July 22, 2013

Hans van deer Steen (Eramus NL)
Neural networks: As the way the twig is bent, the tree inclines
July 18, 2013

Doug A. Bowman (Virgina Tech)
Reconsidering the importance of realism in virtual reality
May 24, 2013

Rob Allison (York University)
Stereoscopic Depth Scaling in the Real World and the Cinema
January 18, 2013

Simona Monaco (University of Trento)
Neural substrates involved in processing three-dimensional object properties for grasping
December 14, 2012

Laurie Wilcox (York University)
Stereoscopic depth percepts from large disparities
November 30, 2012

James Elder (York University)
Perceptual Organization of Shape
November 23, 2012

Doug Tweed (UofT)
Nonconvergent learning for motor control
November 16, 2012

Carson Chow (NIH)
The Dynamics of Visual Competition
October 26, 2012

Andrew Glennester (University of Reading)
A universal primal sketch
June 26, 2012

Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen)
Where we look determines what we see: effects of eye movements on lightness perception
April 18, 2012

Mark Daley (Western University)
This is your brain on graphs
April 13, 2012

Jennifer Steeves (York University)
Living with one eye: Plasticity in visual and auditory systems
March 30, 2012

Rodrigo Montefusco (Hoffman Lab)
Lost and Found: Memory guided search in the macaque
March 23, 2012

Dave Shore (McMaster)
Visuotactile integration
March 16, 2012

Dr. George Chan (McMaster)
Frames of Reference in Spatial Cognition: Effects of Sensory Inputs and Environmental Characteristics
March 9, 2012

Ryan Stevenson (Vanderbilt)
Multisensory temporal integration in typical and autistic populations
March 2, 2012

Keith Schneider (University of Delaware)
Attention biases decisions but does not alter appearance
February 17, 2012

Marius ‘t Hart (University of Marburg)
Features, objects, task: what drives visual attention?
June 27, 2011

Putting Sensory back into Motor Control
Friday, December 16, 2011
Abstract
Steve Scott
Queens University

My brain in space
Monday, December 12, 2011
Dave Williams
Southlake Regional Health Centre

Perception of visual motion in 3d space
Friday, December 9, 2011
Abstract
Hong-Jin Sun
MacMaster University

Attentional control processes within fronto-cingulate microcircuits and larger-scalefunctional brain networks
Friday, November 25, 2011
Thilo Womelsdorf
York University

Innovation@Frontline
Friday, November 18, 2011
Shuo Li
Image research scientist, GE healthcare

Rules of Engagement: Canonical Correlates of EEG across Multiple Movie Viewings
Friday, September 23, 2011
Abstract
Jacek Dmochowski
The City College of the City University of New York

Flexible sensorimotor planning in the frontoparietal reach network
Friday, September 16, 2011
Abstract
Stephanie Westerhoff
Georg-August University

Mental Imagery in Visual and Vestibular Perception
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Abstract
Fred Mast
Universitaet Bern

Focusing on 3d displays. What can volumetric stereoscopic displays teach us about thestimulus to accommodation?
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Kevin MacKenzie
University of Wales

Predicting Saccade Behavior From The Spatial Interactions of Top-Down and Bottom-UpSignals in the Superior Colliculus: A Neural Field Model Approach
Friday, September 2, 2011
Abstract
Rob Marino
Queens University

Spatial updating of targets for action and perception
Friday, August 19, 2011
Katja Fielher
University of Marburg

Perception, Action and Uncertainty
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Abstract
Larry Maloney
New York University

Computational principles and neural mechanisms for state estimation and movementplanning
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Abstract
Pieter Medendorp
Radboud University Nijmegen

Neuroportraits
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Nick Wade
University of Dundee

What can be gained by combining TMS with (f)MRI?
Friday, June 24, 2011
Axel Thielscher
MPI for Biological Cybernetics

Plastic Vision
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Drawing in perspective: ancient and modern
Friday, May 27, 2011
Abstract
Ian Howard
York University

What is second-order vision for?
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Abstract
Andrew Schofield
University of Aberdeen

Insight into the development of spatial vision: from simple sinusoidal gratings to complexnatural scene imagery
Friday, April 15, 2011
Dave Ellemberg
University de Montreal

Plasticity and metaplasticity of the rat primary visual cortex
Friday, March 25, 2011
Abstract
Hans Dringenberg
Queen’s University

The Mirror Mechanism: New Findings
Friday, March 18, 2011
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Schulich University of Parma

Post-doc Showcase
Friday, March 11, 2011
Post-docs
York University

Visual mining of complex data in virtual reality
Friday, February 25, 2011
Gilles Venturini
Univ de Toulouse

How natural light guides visual perception
Friday, February 18, 2011
Richard Murray
York University

Understanding neuronal communication and coding of selective sensory information: Anetwork perspective of attentional control processes in the primate brain
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thilo Womelsdorf
University of Western Ontario

Linearization and diagonalization of arm kinematics in a binocular visual space
Friday, January 21, 2011
Abstract
Takashi Mitsuda
Ritsumeikan University

Learning about the world with soundlight
Friday, January 14, 2011
Laurence Harris
York University

Prediction, extrapolation and scheduling time to gather information in object motion
Friday, December 17, 2010
Abstract
Paul Schrater
University of Minnesota

Why does light hurt? Links between vision and migraine
Friday, December 3, 2010
Abstract
Fran Wikinson
York University

Figure-ground, outline, perspective and metaphor in pictures in vision and touch: From caveand Florence 1400 to the present
Friday, November 26, 2010
Abstract
John Kennedy
U of Toronto

The Neural Organization of Binocular Vision
Friday, November 5, 2010
Ralph Freeman
University of California, Berkeley

Separating the wheat from the chaff. Physiological mechanism of attentional filtering in theprimate brain
Friday, October 29, 2010
Abstract
Julio Martinez-Trujilllo
McGill

Neural mechanisms of sensorimotor decisions in the cerebral cortex
Friday, October 22, 2010
Abstract
Paul Cisek
University de Montreal

Scratching beneath the surface: new insights into the functional properties of the lateraloccipital area and parahippocampal place area
Friday, October 8, 2010
Abstract
Jonathan S. Cant
Harvard University

Motor planning: The long, winding and recurrent road from sensory input to motor output
Friday, December 18, 2009
Abstract
Pierre-Michel Bernier
UC Santa Barbara

Stereotaxic space oddity: Creating a universal coordinate database for neuroimaging data
Friday, December 4, 2009
Abstract
Raymond Mar
York University

Multisensory self-motion perception in real and virtual environments
Friday, November 13, 2009
Abstract
Jenny Campos
U of Toronto

Assessing multisensory integration with additive factors and functional MRI
Monday, November 9, 2009
Abstract
Tom James
University of Indiana

Where my Actions meet Your Actions: Mirror neurons, perspective and interaction
Friday, October 9, 2009
Abstract
Vittorio Caggiano
Tuebingen

Vision in 3D Environments
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
York University

Real-time feedback use during goal-directed movements
Friday, June 19, 2009
Abstract
Luc Tremblay
U of Toronto

Are changes in spinal excitability related to functional impairment post stroke?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Abstract
Chetan Phadke
University of Florida

Sensory recalibration in motor learning
Friday, May 29, 2009
Erin Cressman
York University

A new look at past, present and future investigations of human attention
Monday, May 25, 2009
Abstract
Alan Kingstone
UBC

Visuomotor adaptation: The roles of optic flow and attention
Friday, May 22, 2009
Abstract
Tracey Brandwood
Cardiff

Visual spatial processing requirements determine task performance: Evidence fromvisuomotor adaptation and visual feedback processing
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Abstract
Lore Thaler
UWO

The sensorimotor functions of the posterior parietal cortex: Evidence from opticataxia.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Annabelle Blagero
Lyon, France

Some new thoughts on an old issue: Amblyopia
Friday, April 17, 2009
Robert Hess
McGill

Nonlinear integration by premotor circuits in the binocular VOR pathway and itsimplications: A modeling study
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Abstract
Elham (Ellie) Khojasteh
McGill

Decoding visual and mental content from human brain activity
Friday, April 3, 2009
Abstract
Frank Tong
Vanderbilt University

Ian Howard Lecture Series: Connecting scales: Mathematics and neuroscience
Friday, March 27, 2009
Oliver Faugeras
INRIA Sopia-Antipodes-Mediterrane

TV remotes, car keys, and wallets: Searching in real-world scenes
Friday, March 20, 2009
Abstract
Monica Castelhano
Queen’s University

Spontaneous pattern formation in large scale brain activity: What visual migraines andhallucinations tell us about the brain
Friday, March 13, 2009
Abstract
Jack Cowan
University of Chicago

Space encoding during eye movements
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Abstract
Frank Bremmer
Philipps-University Marburg

Separating color from color contrast: The implications for motion and brightness illusions
Friday, February 27, 2009
Art Shapiro
Bucknell University

Does dorsal anterior cingulate cortex respond to only response conflict?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Abstract
Chobok Kim
New Mexico State University

Perceptuo-motor performance: Patient problems and premotor potentials
Friday, February 20, 2009
Lauren Sergio
CVR

Natural images and naturalistic stimuli: Image statistics and human perception
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Curtis Baker
McGill

Electrophysiological assessment of contrast sensitivity and colourvision in infants withprenatal exposure to organic solvents
Friday, January 23, 2009
Christine Till
York University

Ian Howard Lecture Series: Learning multiple layers of visual features
Friday, January 16, 2009
Geoffrey E. Hinton
U of Toronto

Excessive manual force production in hypergravity – possible causes and practicalconsequences
Friday, December 5, 2008
Abstract
Marc Dalecki
Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln

The Visual Gateway to cortex and its guardian: Attention in the LGN and TRN
Monday, December 1, 2008
Bob Wurtz
National Eye Institute

Specialisation within, and anisotropies between upper and lower visual space revealedthrough judgements of orientation
Friday, November 28, 2008
Abstract
Richard Dyde
CVR

Basal ganglia (Parkinson’s disease) in accurate reaching
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Howard Poizner
Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego

Analysis of visual spacetime with a distributed oriented energy representation
Friday, November 7, 2008
Richard Wildes
CVR

Pattern formation in migraine with visual aura: From mechanism to control
Friday, October 31, 2008
Abstract
Markus Dahlem
Technische Universität Berlin

From sensorimotor science to sensorimotor rehabilitation: Canada’s approach forparkinson’s disease
Friday, October 24, 2008
Abstract
Quincy Almeida
Movement Disorders Research & Rehabilitation Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University

An analysis of global shape processing using radial frequency contours
Friday, October 17, 2008
Abstract
Jason Bell
McGill University Vision Research Group

The influence of background oscillatory brain activity on evoked responses and motorbehavior
Friday, September 26, 2008
Abstract
Ali Mazaheri
Compuiter Science & Engineering, York

Walking as the ultimate challenge for the multisensory brain
Friday, September 5, 2008
Abstract
Ilja Frissen
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Interactions between attention and visually-guided movements
Friday, August 29, 2008
Aarlenne Khan
CVR

What does pointing have to do with speaking? (How individuals with autism plan andcontrol reaching movements)
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Abstract
Cheryl Glazebrook Passmore

The dichopiscope. A new instrument for investigating the perception of motion in depth
Friday, August 8, 2008
Ian Howard
CVR

Putting visual disappearance into context
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Abstract
Erich Graf
University of Southampton

The role of cerebellar complex spikes in oculomotor learning
Friday, July 18, 2008
Suryadeep Dash
Tuebingen

Depth perception: Assumptions & adaptation
Friday, July 11, 2008
Abstract
Wendy Adams
Univ of Southampton

Cue recruitment in visual perception
Friday, June 27, 2008
Abstract
Benjamin Backus
SUNY-Optometry

On surface visibilities in 3D cluttered scenes
Friday, June 20, 2008
Abstract
Mike Langer
McGill University

Coding and perceiving the positions of objects
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Abstract
David Whitney
Center for Mind and Brain, and Dept of Psychology, UC Davis

Visuospatial updating after rotations and translations in three-dimensional space
Friday, June 13, 2008
Abstract
Eliana Klier
Washington University

Categorical decision-making in a fronto-striatal circuit
Friday, May 30, 2008
Abstract
Vince Fererra
Columbia Medical School

The interplay between visual attention and saccade motor intention
Friday, May 9, 2008
Abstract
Wendy Huddleston
University of Wisconsin

Eye-hand coordination caught in the act
Friday, May 2, 2008
Abstract
Joost Dessing
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam

Eccentric reading training for patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
Friday, April 18, 2008
Abstract
Esther Gonzales
VSRP, Toronto Western and U of T Ophthalmology

Visual perception from a bayesian perspective
Friday, April 11, 2008
Abstract
Pascal Mamassian

Ian Howard Lecture Series
Friday, April 4, 2008
Keiji Tanaka
RIKEN Brain Science Institute

Age, context and eye movements
Friday, March 28, 2008
Abstract
Elizabeth Irving
Waterloo School of Optometry

Perspectives on (dis-)orientation
Friday, March 14, 2008
Abstract
Heather Jenkin
Psychology, York

Binocular motion perception: When is it used, and How?
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Julie Harris
Univ of St. Andrews, Scotland

Manipulation of afferent feedback from extraocular muscles: Effects on vergence, versionand higher order perceptual judgements
Friday, March 7, 2008
Abstract
Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo
U of Toronto and Toronto Western Research Insititute

MRI studies of binocular vision and amblyopia
Friday, February 29, 2008
Abstract
Janine Mendola
Opthalmology, McGill

Role of primary motor cortex in motor learning
Friday, February 22, 2008
Abstract
Paul Gribble
University of Western Ontario

Multisensory interactions for motor control
Friday, February 8, 2008
Abstract
Denise Henriques
CVR

The efficiency of biological motion perception
Friday, January 25, 2008
Abstract
Jason Gold
Indiana University

Coordinating auditory and visual speech information by children with autism: The eyesdon’t have it.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Abstract
Jim Bebko
Psychology, York

Delivering Eye Care in Ghana: International Volunteerism in Vision Health Care
Friday, January 11, 2008
Jennifer Rycroft

The role of simulation in health professions education: Applications of motor control andlearning theory
Friday, November 30, 2007
Abstract
Heather Carnahan
Wilson Centre, UHN

CVR – Face Day
Friday, November 23, 2007
A variety of CVR staff
CVR

Ian Howard Lecture Series
Friday, November 16, 2007
Suzanne McKee
Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Building 3d models of unusual environments
Friday, November 9, 2007
Abstract
Michael Jenkin
CVR

Multi-technique approach to gaze processing
Friday, October 12, 2007
Abstract
Roxane Itier
Rotman Research Institute

GABA enhancing antiepileptic drug safer for human developing vs. mature retina
Friday, September 28, 2007
Abstract
Carol Westall
The Hospital for Sick Children

Binocular rivalry: Waves, hysteresis, and perceptual memory
Friday, September 21, 2007
Abstract
Hugh Wilson
CVR

Attention diminishes surround suppression in Macaque area V4
Friday, September 14, 2007
Abstract
Kristy Sundberg
The Salk Institute

Cortical Mechanisms of Vision test
Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The dorsal stream in kinesthetic action control and working memory
Friday, June 15, 2007
Abstract
Katja Fiehler
Marburg

Ian P. Howard Lecture Series – Robot vision
Friday, May 25, 2007
Takeo Kanade
Carnegie-Mellon University

Psychomotor delay and a neurodynamic explanation of Fitts’ law
Friday, May 18, 2007
Abstract
Dan Beamish
York University

Multi object class detection with a generative model
Monday, May 14, 2007
Abstract
Bernt Schiele
U Darmstadt

A flux invariant for biological shape
Friday, April 27, 2007
Abstract
Kaleem Siddiqi
McGill

Object shape space
Friday, April 20, 2007
Abstract
Heather Jordon
Psychology, York University

Ian P. Howard Lecture Series – Neural synchrony and attention
Friday, April 13, 2007
Bob Desimone
MIT

Learning to reproduce novel actions: Human see, human do.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Bob Sekuler
Brandeis

Latent identity variables: a generative probabilistic framework for face recognition
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Abstract
Simon Prince
UCL

Visual search and pop-out in infancy: Effects and function
Friday, March 23, 2007
Scott Adler
CVR

Form vision with a function: Attention modulates visual tuning of V4 neurons
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Abstract
Stephen David
Maryland

Cross-modal tactile/visual face recognition
Friday, March 16, 2007
Abstract
Susan Lederman
Queens

Ian P. Howard Lecture Series – Why pictures look right when viewed from the wrong place(and sometimes look wrong when viewed from the right place)?
Friday, March 9, 2007
Marty Banks
UC Berkeley

A novel approach to the problem of cue integration: the Stereo-Motion
Friday, March 2, 2007
Abstract
Fulvio Domini
Brown University

The many faces of face perception
Friday, February 16, 2007
Allison Sekuler
McMaster

Gestalt-Based Object Group Selection
Friday, February 2, 2007
Abstract
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
CVR

A geometric model of V1 neural selectivity
Friday, January 19, 2007
Abstract
James Elder
CVR

Unconscious but under control: The processing of subliminal information for action
Friday, January 5, 2007
Abstract
Erin Cressman
University of British Columbia

Scanning a hemisphere and other biologically motivated vision problems
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Abstract
Ehud Rivlin
Technion Israel Institute of Technology

Ian P. Howard Lecture Series – Sensorimotor transformations
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Richard Andersen
CalTech

Focusing attention across the lifespan: Cognitive changes with normal and abnormal aging
Friday, December 1, 2006
Susan Murtha
Psychology, York University

Colour responses of the human visual cortex and LGN identified with fMRI
Friday, October 27, 2006
Abstract
Kathy Mullen
McGill

Effects of early correction for infantile esotropia on cerebral sensory and ocular motordevelopment
Friday, October 20, 2006
Abstract
Agnes Wong
U of Toronto

The perceptual grouping of local features for image annotation and vision-based navigation
Friday, September 29, 2006
Abstract
Sven Dickinson
U of Toronto

Neural basis of saccade target selection
Friday, September 22, 2006
Jeff Schall
Vanderbilt

Let’s face it – Psychological and neural mechanisms of face processing
Friday, September 15, 2006
Marlene Behrmann
U of Toronto

Self-motion perception and spatial orientation in virtual environments
Friday, August 4, 2006
Abstract
Bernhard Reicke
Max Planck,Tubingen

The Sonel Mapping Acoustical Modeling Method
Friday, July 14, 2006
Abstract
Bill Kapralos
CVR

Looking at people… and animals
Monday, June 5, 2006
Abstract
Greg Mori
School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Visual working memory and the active vision perspective
Monday, May 29, 2006
Abstract
Daniel Gajewski
Michigan State University

Bayesian models of cue integration: Using and learning prior models of the statistics ofscenes
Friday, May 26, 2006
Dave Knill
University of Rochester

Stimulation of human intraparietal cortex disrupts spatial updating of visual locationsacross saccades
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Abstract
Adam Morris
U. Melbourne

Borders and contours
Friday, May 19, 2006
Keith May
McGill

Filling in, wiggly lines, adaptation and aftereffects
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Abstract
Stuart Anstis
UC San Diego

A Novel Solution to an Old Problem: Invariant Recognition by a Neural Network with Fractal-like Connectivity
Friday, May 12, 2006
Abstract
Morrie Furman
Technion IIT

Sensorimotor control points used when performing and observing manipulation tasks
Friday, April 28, 2006
Abstract
Randy Flanagan
Queens University

Limb motor plasticity: Mimicking saccadic adaptation.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Claude Prablanc
Rhone-Alps Auvergne

Deploying selective visual attention for object detection
Monday, April 24, 2006
Abstract
Dirk Walther
CVR

Automatic object-based selection in area V4
Friday, April 21, 2006
Abstract
Maz Fallah
CVR

Object Processing and Aging: from Shapes to Faces
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Claudine Habak
CVR

Hysteresis in face and binocular perception
Friday, April 7, 2006
Abstract
Jeounghoon Kim
Korean Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, KAIST

Visual localization and feature processing during saccadic eye movements
Friday, March 31, 2006
Abstract
Markus Lappe
Muenster Univ, Germany

The inversion effect in biological motion perception: Evidence for a “life detector”?
Friday, March 24, 2006
Abstract
Niko Troje
Queens & Bochum

Stimulus specificity in the human V5/MT complex as revealed by rapid fMRI adaption
Friday, March 17, 2006
Abstract
Andy Smith
Royal Holloway, London

Self-Organizing trees and forests for pattern clustering and recognition & Modeling andrecognizing human movement and activities
Friday, March 10, 2006
Abstract
Ling Guan
Ryerson

Large-scale networks for face processing in the monkey brain.
Monday, March 6, 2006
Abstract
Kari Hoffman
Tuebingen

Representation of discrete and continuous reach plans in the parietal cortex: Applicationsfor brain-machine interfaces
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Abstract
Sam Musallam
Caltech

Temporal and spatial working memory deficits in neglect
Friday, February 24, 2006
James Danckert
University of Waterloo

Extending our reach: Exploring the neural mechanisms of arm movement control
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Abstract
Aaron Batista
Stanford

Does prefrontal cortex function include response suppression signals in humans andprimates?
Monday, February 6, 2006
Abstract
Joe DeSouza
York University

Guided Search 4.0: Current Progress with a model of visual search
Monday, January 9, 2006
Abstract
Jeremy M Wolfe
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Visual constraints on motor performance
Friday, December 16, 2005
Abstract
Anna Ma-Wyatt
Smith Kettlewell

Bottom up saliency map by a single stage V1 process rather than a combination of featuremaps
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Abstract
Zhaoping Li
Gatsby Neuroscience Unit, Imperial College London

The what, where, and how of binocular rivalry
Friday, December 9, 2005
Alan Freeman
University of Sydney

Contributions of world-centered and viewer-centered reference frames to spatial cognition:Insights from modelling
Friday, December 2, 2005
Abstract
Patrick Byrne
McMasters University

Priors for people tracking from small data sets
Friday, November 25, 2005
Abstract
David Fleet
Unversity of Toronto

The neural correlates of supramodal beauty
Monday, November 21, 2005
Abstract
Richard Lewis
Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College, London

Vection and motion sickness in an optokinetic drum
Friday, November 11, 2005
Fred Bonato and Andrea Bubka
St Peters College, New Jersey

Driving by the seat of your pants: A multisensory approach to capturing driver attention
Monday, November 7, 2005
Charles Spence
Oxford Psych

Visual coordinates for reach planning in human parietal cortex.
Friday, November 4, 2005
Abstract
Doug Crawford
York University

A temporal analysis of illusory effects in monocular and binocular grasping: Evidenceagainst planning and control.
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Aidan Thompson
Dalhousie

Object-directed action: What’s perception got to do with it?
Thursday, November 3, 2005
Abstract
Aidan Thompson
Dalhousie

Metamer based sensor estimation without minimization
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Abstract
Ali Alsam
Norway

Holistic face and scene processing: Evidence from patients without the parts
Friday, October 21, 2005
Jennifer Steeves
York University

Visual Determinants of Saccade Latency
Friday, September 30, 2005
Brian White
Tubingen

Functional neuroimaging in children: Examples from face processing
Friday, September 23, 2005
Margot Taylor
Hospital for Sick Children

Computational Vision in Neural and Machine Systems
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Imaging the brain during reaching and grasping.
Friday, May 20, 2005
Jody Culham
University of Western Ontario

Distorted shape perception
Friday, May 13, 2005
Abstract
Denise Henriques
School of Kinesiology & Health Science, York University

Saccadic orientation of gaze: contribution of the medio-posterior cerebellum in the primate
Friday, April 29, 2005
Abstract
Julie Quinet
Lyon

Spatial frequency of face recognition
Friday, April 22, 2005
Carl Gaspar
McMaster University

The new and old data on visual direction continue to hit you right between the eyes.
Friday, April 8, 2005
Abstract
Hiro Ono
York University

Neural net models for spatial updating of saccade targets
Friday, March 18, 2005
Gerald Keith
York University

Biases in visual attention from a psychological and neurophysiology perspective
Friday, March 18, 2005
Abstract
Jillian Fecteau
The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute

Perception as Probabilistic Inference
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Abstract
Jamie Hillis
University Pennsylvania

Kerneltron: Massively parallel mixed-signal VLSI pattern recognition processor
Friday, March 11, 2005
Abstract
Roman Genov
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering U of T

Motor responses produced by changing vertical disparity
Monday, March 7, 2005
Hirohiko Kaneko
Tokyo Institute of Technology

To look or not to look: prefrontal cortex function during the anti-saccade task in humans andprimates
Friday, March 4, 2005
Abstract
Joe De Souza
York University

Touching without contact: The spatial environment sensed via vision
Friday, March 4, 2005
Abstract
John S. Zelek
University of Waterloo

Gaze behavior during perturbation-evoked stepping reactions in young and older adults
Friday, February 18, 2005
John Zettel
Sunnybrook Hospital

Spatial frames for gaze coding in cortex and superior colliculus
Friday, February 11, 2005
Doug Crawford
York University

Pursuit of jumping and occluded moving stimuli
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Philippe Lefevre
U. catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Image-based measurement for modeling in computer graphics
Friday, February 4, 2005
Abstract
Jochen Lang
Ottawa

Multiscale conditional random fields for image labelling
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Abstract
Richard Zemel
University of Toronto

Human-centered design of multimodal display technology: Psychophysical calibration ofvirtual event attributes
Friday, January 21, 2005
Abstract
William Martens
McGill University

Covert Attention Shifts and Microsaccades
Monday, January 17, 2005
Abstract
James J. Clark
CIM, McGill University

Virtual Walking in the Immersive Visual Environment
Friday, January 14, 2005
Abstract
Rob Allison

Visual signals: Discrete or continuous, transient or sustained?
Friday, January 7, 2005
Abstract
Alex Holcombe
Cardiff, UK

Do schizophrenics suffer from right hemi-neglect?
Friday, December 10, 2004
Abstract
Celine Cavezian
University of Claude Bernard, Lyon

Statistical models for motion segmentation and tracking
Friday, December 10, 2004
King Yuen Wong
York University

Enhancing spatial information by digital image processing. Does it increase visibility forpeople with vision loss?
Friday, November 26, 2004
Sue Leat
Optometry, U of Waterloo

Neural Motor Prostheses: Directly Coupling Brains and Machines to Restore Lost Function
Friday, November 26, 2004
Abstract
Michael Black
Brown University

A model of the neural circuits subserving spatial cognition!
Friday, November 12, 2004
Abstract
Sue Becker
McMaster University

Nonparametric Colour Indexing: An Alternative to Histograms
Friday, November 5, 2004
Abstract
Michael Greenspan
ECE, Queens University

Probabilistic methods for tracking people and understanding motion.
Thursday, November 4, 2004
Abstract
Jim Little
UBC

Motion crowding
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Pete Bex
University College London

Visual cortex mechanisms for processing moving contours defined by texture or contrast
Friday, October 8, 2004
Abstract
Curtis Baker
McGill

Making Effective Artistic Renderings
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
Abstract
Doug DeCarlo
Rutgers

Using the anti-saccade task to examine preparatory set in primates and humans
Friday, October 1, 2004
Joe DeSouza
CVR

Convergence of spatial and motion cues at intermediate levels of visual shape processing
Friday, September 24, 2004
Stephane Rainville
CVR

Visually based robotic grasping and the neuroscience of sensiomotor coordination
Friday, September 17, 2004
Eris Chinellato
Universitat Jaume

The frontal lobes do cause problems in attention
Friday, September 10, 2004
Don Struss
Rotman Reserarch Institute, U of T

A novel 3D HCI for digital content retrival
Friday, September 3, 2004
Abstract
Alan Radley
MATT Services

Opponent-motion normalisation does not predict direction discrimination at low contrasts.
Thursday, July 8, 2004
Abstract
Kirsten Challinor
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Neural Degeneration of Central Visual Pathways in Experimental Monkey and HumanGlaucomas
Friday, June 25, 2004
Yeni Yucel
University of Toronto

Visual Attention and Active Vision
Friday, May 28, 2004
John Findlay
University of Durham, UK

The view from the back: Neural mechanisms for neck muscle recruitment and kinesthesia
Friday, May 7, 2004
Abstract
Brian Corneil
UWO

Influences of eye position on activity in the human occipital and parietal cortex measured byfMRI
Friday, April 23, 2004
Andy Smith
Holloway College, London, UK

Encoding of horizontal disparity in macaque V1
Friday, April 16, 2004
Simon Prince
York University

Visual Perception of Touchdown Point During Simulated Landing
Friday, March 19, 2004
Abstract
Steve Palmisano
University of Wollongong

Neuromagnetic Imaging of Cortical Activity Following the Detection of Transient Changes inthe Direction of Moving Stimuli
Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Bill Gaetz
Dept. Diagnostic Imaging, Sick Kids, Toronto

What’s up, doc? A simple letter discrimination task reveals the relative perceptualconsequences of gravity, visual background and posture
Friday, March 12, 2004
Richard Dyde

On the Depth Cue Weights in the Integration Process of Binocular Disparity and Perspectivefor the Perception of Surface Slant
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Abstract
Yuichi Sakano

A cortical specialization within human area MT/V5 for the processing of speed gradients inlocal motion
Friday, March 5, 2004
Julio Cesar Martinez-Trujillo
York University

Illusory reversed motion and discrete temporal sampling in vision
Friday, February 27, 2004
Abstract
Bill Simpson
Defence Research and Development Canada

Display Resolution, Visual Perception, and Simulated Aircraft Aspect
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Abstract
Keith Niall
Defence Research and Development Canada, Toronto

First- and second-order binocular matching in stereopsis: psychophysics andcomputational modelling
Friday, February 20, 2004
Athena Buckthought
Carleton and The Communications Research Centre, Canada

High speed steering: what we use and how we use it.
Friday, February 13, 2004
Richard Wilkie
Univ. Reading, UK

Brain versus brawn: the incorporation of cognitive versus biomechanical information into avisually-guided reach
Friday, February 6, 2004
Lauren Sergio
York University

Memory-guided saccades during smooth eye movements
Friday, January 30, 2004
Gunnar Blohm
Brussels Oculomotor Group, Belgium

Eye-hand coordination in parietal patients
Friday, January 23, 2004
Aarlenne Khan
York University

Functional Architectures for Attention: Current Challenges
Thursday, January 8, 2004
Abstract
Jerzy Jarmasz
DRDC Toronto

Virtually no evidence for virtually perfect time-sharing
Friday, December 12, 2003
Abstract
Michael Tombu
Tsotsos lab , York University

Exploring the consequences of salient events: Linking attentional biases to single cellactivity
Monday, December 8, 2003
Abstract
Jillian Fecteau
Queens

Motion parallax in cluttered scenes: optical flow, optical snow, and judging the direction ofheading
Friday, December 5, 2003
Richard Mann
U Waterloo

The moving tablet of the eye
Friday, November 28, 2003
Abstract
Nick Wade
University of Dundee

Binocular rivalry and its place in the brain
Friday, November 14, 2003
Vincent Nguyen

On Visual Maps and their Automatic Construction
Friday, November 7, 2003
Abstract
Robert Sim
McGil

Learning parts
Thursday, November 6, 2003
Abstract
Richard Zemel
U of Toronto

Nonlinear dynamics: a tool for investigating eye movement control and the dynamics ofperception
Friday, October 31, 2003
Ozgur Akman
University College, London

Prism Adaptation in Health and Disease
Friday, October 24, 2003
Juan Fernandez-Ruiz
York University

Integrated CMOS Image Sensors: from Machine Vision to Retinal Prosthesis
Thursday, October 23, 2003
Jun Ohta
Nara Institute of Science & Technology, Japan

Auditory Cues in the Perception of Self-Motion
Friday, October 17, 2003
Abstract
Bill Kapralos
York

What can be learned from doing psychophysics with noise backgrounds
Friday, October 10, 2003
Stan Klein
UC Berkeley

Inhibition of Return from Stimulus to Response
Thursday, October 9, 2003
Abstract
David Prime
Univ. British Columbia

Perceived colour based on illuminant perception
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
Rumi Yamauchi

Verbal interpretations and visual perception
Friday, October 3, 2003
Abstract
Sven Wachsmuth
U Toronto, Comp. Sci. & Bielefeld University, Faculty of Technology, Germany

Judgements of object stationarity: egocentric vs Euclidian geometry
Friday, October 3, 2003
Abstract
Richard Dyde

Cognition is categorization
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Abstract
Steven Harnad
Centre de Neuroscience de la Cognition, UQAM

Integrating information across spatial scales
Friday, September 26, 2003
Pat Bennett
Psychology, McMaster

Using Motion Parallax to Make a 3-D Display
Friday, September 5, 2003
Hiro Ono
York University

Visual Processing of Spatial Form Defined by Luminance, Colour, Motion, Texture andBinocular Disparity
Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Heads up! Motor and sensory roles for neck muscles in visually-guided movements.
Monday, June 9, 2003
Abstract
Brian Corneil
Physiology, Queens

Perception and awareness
Friday, May 30, 2003
Susanne Ferber
Psych, U. Toronto

Genomic Imprinting and Brain Development: Cognitive Consequences.
Friday, May 23, 2003
Abstract
Lisa Goos
York University

Form and Motion Cues in the Identification and Discrimination of Animals
Friday, May 16, 2003
Abstract
Benjamin Thompson
Psychology, Sussex, UK

Variational Methods, Implicit Representations & Visual Grouping
Friday, April 11, 2003
Abstract
Nikos Paragios
Siemens Corporate Research

Deciding where and when to look: probing the neural mechanisms that govern eyemovement choices
Friday, March 28, 2003
Abstract
Rich Krauzlis
Salk Institute

Line pictures by blind adults and children representing objects, space and motion
Friday, March 21, 2003
Abstract
John Kennedy
U of Toronto

The role of attention in eye and hand movements
Friday, March 14, 2003
Jay Pratt
Psych, U. Toronto

Optimal transsaccadic integration explains saccadic suppression of displacement anddistortions of space perception
Friday, February 28, 2003
Matthias Niemeier
York University

Real-world applications of computer vision: from Positron Spins to Images of Cognition
Friday, February 7, 2003
Abstract
Tuan Cao-Huu
CS, Glendon

Workshop: Publishing on the CVR Web Site
Friday, January 31, 2003
Abstract
Markus Latzel
York University

Probabilistic scene reconstruction
Thursday, January 23, 2003
Abstract
Greg Dudek
CS, McGill

Visual Recognition by Computers: Generic Model Abstraction from Examples
Friday, January 17, 2003
Abstract
Sven Dickinson
U of Toronto

The role of the Supplementary Eye Fields in eye-head coordination and visuomotor codingin the macaque monkey
Friday, January 10, 2003
Julio Cesar Martinez-Trujillo
York University

Looking at the visual-motor transformation for saccades through simple artificial neuralnetworks
Friday, December 20, 2002
Mike Smith
York University

Sensory-motor optimization in the stereo-visual system
Friday, December 13, 2002
Kai Schreiber
U of Toronto

Dynamic representation of visual space for perception and action
Friday, December 6, 2002
Pieter Medendorp
York University

Confusing the Mind by Crossing the Hands: The Psychophysics, Neuropsychology andNeuroimaging of Visuotactile Remapping
Friday, November 29, 2002
Abstract
David Shore
McMaster

Nonlinear neuron behaviour in the vestibular nucleus
Friday, November 22, 2002
Dave Tomlinson
U of Toronto

Studies on the contribution of the superior colliculus to gaze control and limb reachingmovements
Monday, November 11, 2002
Denis Pelisson
INSERM, Bron, France

Color Shifts from Patterned Backgrounds Accounted for by Cortical Receptive Fields
Friday, October 4, 2002
Steve Shevell
Univ. Chicago

Biologically-inspired visual guidance of robot locomotion
Thursday, September 5, 2002
Abstract
Jia Wen, Simon Rushton

Updating spatial information in the absence of the forebrain commissures: behavioral andneural correlates.
Friday, May 31, 2002
Rebecca Berman

Two Regularities in Visual Scenes: Statistical Interdependencies and Rigid Body Motion
Friday, May 3, 2002
Norbert Krueger
University of Stirling (Scotland)

Luminance Gradient Illusions
Friday, April 19, 2002
Abstract
Daniele Zavagno
NEC Research Institute Inc., Princeton, USA

Decomposition of a Single Gaze Command Into Eye and Head Pathways
Friday, April 5, 2002
Neeraj (Raj) Gandhi
Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas

Contrastive Backpropagation
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
Abstract
Geoffrey Hinton
Comp. Sci., University of Toronto

Neuropsychological Investigations of the Dorsal and Ventral Streams of Visual Processing
Friday, March 8, 2002
Jonathan Marotta
York University

Control of Gaze and it’s Implications for Perception
Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Stan Gielen
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Orienting of Attention and Ihibition of Return
Friday, March 1, 2002
Ray Klein
Psychology, Dalhousie University

Adults’ and infants’ extraction of higher-order structure from rapidly presented visualimages
Thursday, February 7, 2002
Richard Aslin
Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, U of Rochester

Central capacity demands of visual encoding. Evidence from a variety of dual-taskparadigms will be used to demonstrate and study the central-processing capacity demandsassociated with encoding visual information for nearly-immediate conscious report
Friday, January 25, 2002
Pierre Jolicoeur
Waterloo

B-eye-onics: Biological Inspiration and Applications of Electronic Cameras
Friday, January 11, 2002
Richard Hornsey
York University

TBA
Friday, December 14, 2001
Suzanna Becker
McMaster

Binocular Vision in a world of overlapping surfaces
Friday, December 7, 2001
Barbara Gillam
U of New South Wales

Inhibition of return: New answers to old questions
Friday, November 30, 2001
Jay Pratt
UofT

Deciphering the Neural Code for Geometric Face Perception
Friday, November 23, 2001
Hugh Wilson
York University

Waiting for Jose: The Theory and Practice of Robot Waitering
Tuesday, November 20, 2001
Jim Little
Computer Science, UBC

Physiology of Attention
Friday, November 16, 2001
Stefan Treue
Tuebingen, Germany.

Learning flexible sprites in video layers
Friday, November 2, 2001
Brendan Frey
Computer Science, Univ Waterloo

Galvanic vestibular stimulation: Methods and mechanisms
Friday, September 28, 2001
Erich Schneider
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit

Migraine, Vision and the Mathematics of Brain Function.
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Hugh Wilson and Fran Wilkinson

Vision-based Gesture Interfaces to Virtual Environments
Thursday, August 23, 2001
Australia National University

Levels of Perception
Tuesday, June 19, 2001

Thresholds and noise
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Ted Cohn

Visuo-spatial Abilities Relevant to Training in Surgery
Friday, June 8, 2001
Stan Hamstra

Object and Space Perception
Friday, June 1, 2001
Abstract
Matthias Niemeier
York University

fMRI and Attention
Friday, May 25, 2001
Abstract
Jonathan Downar
Toronto Western Hospital

Optic flow and perception of direction
Tuesday, May 22, 2001
Simon Rushton
York University

Visual perception and biomedical image analysis
Friday, May 18, 2001
Abstract
A.G.Todman
Maths & Info.Sci. Coventry Univ. UK

Dynamics of Travelling Waves in Vision: New Insights into BinocularRivalry
Friday, May 11, 2001
Hugh Wilson
York University

Vertical disparities
Friday, April 27, 2001
Abstract
Phil Duke
York University

Proctor Acceptance Speech
Friday, April 20, 2001
Abstract
DM Regan
York University

Detection of Shape Deformation in Pattern and Motion Perception
Friday, April 6, 2001
Gunter Loffler

Face Recognition
Friday, March 30, 2001
Allison Sekuler

Migraine and Vision
Friday, March 23, 2001
Fran Wilkinson
York University

Prosopagnosia
Friday, March 16, 2001
Josee Rivest
York University

Qualitative Analysis of Visual Spatiotemporal Information
Monday, February 26, 2001
Richard P. Wildes
York University

Cortical Basis of Attention
Friday, February 16, 2001
Julio Martinez

Models of Attention
Friday, January 19, 2001
John Tsotsos
York University

The relationship between 2nd order and global processing in vision
Friday, December 15, 2000
Robert Hess

Mosaicing and image-based granulometry
Monday, October 30, 2000
Fadi Dornaika
Univ Alberta

Perceptual filling in.
Thursday, October 26, 2000
Abstract
Evan Thompson
York University

Retinal toxicity from anticonvulsants
Friday, October 20, 2000
Carol Westall & Adena Perron
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

A prolegomenon to ecological optics: projective geometry and visual form perception
Friday, October 13, 2000
Keith Niall
DCIEM

Merry-go-rounds and roller-coasters: How does the otolith system play?
Friday, October 6, 2000
Dora Angelaki
Washington Univ Sch Med.

Purkinje and Motion Illusions
Wednesday, October 4, 2000
Nick Wade
Dundee Univ

Infants’ eye movements and cognitive expectations
Friday, September 22, 2000
Scott Adler
York University

Selection of camera parameter for state estimation
Friday, September 15, 2000
Joachim Denzler
Rochester

Looking at the task in hand
Thursday, August 3, 2000
Mark Mon-Williams
St Andrews

Human face perception and recognition
Wednesday, July 26, 2000
Ken Nakayama
Harvard

Perception of linear acceleration in a simulator
Monday, May 29, 2000
Eric Groen
TNO, The Netherlands

Gravity, internal models and motion sickness
Friday, May 26, 2000
Jelte Bos
TNO, The Netherlands

The control of visually-guided arm movements
Friday, May 19, 2000
Lauren Sergio
York University

fMRI studies of visual cortex and attention
Sunday, May 14, 2000
Andy Smith
Royal Holloway, UK

Parietal neglect and prisms?
Friday, May 5, 2000
Yves Rossetti
Lyon, France

Visuo-motor imitation
Friday, April 14, 2000
Robert Sekuler

Selecting Visual Information
Friday, April 7, 2000
Kyle Cave

Collision avoidance and collision achievement
Friday, March 31, 2000
David Martin Regan
York University

Perceptual Consequences of 3D Eye Rotations
Friday, March 3, 2000
Tutis Vilis
UWO

Visual Scanning Patterns in Interface Design
Friday, February 18, 2000
Sylvain Haudegond

Stereoscopic vision
Friday, February 4, 2000
Kevin Brooks

Attention and the Perception of Scenes
Friday, February 4, 2000
Ron Rensink

A Canadian Vision Health Research Institute?
Friday, January 28, 2000
Marty Steinbach

Vision After Monocular vs Binocular Deprivation During Early Infancy
Friday, December 10, 1999
Abstract
Terri Lewis
McMaster

Gaze Stabilization During Head Movements
Tuesday, November 30, 1999
Pieter Medendorp

A Shape Distortion Effect – An Effect From The Ventral Stream
Friday, November 26, 1999
Josee Rivest
York University

Reflections on Colour and Shadows
Thursday, November 25, 1999
Michael Lang

Vision and Action
Friday, November 19, 1999
Mel Goodale
Western

Cortical Columns, Binocular Vision, and Plasticity
Friday, September 17, 1999
Abstract
Kathy Murphy
McMaster

What’s up in Three Dimensional Image Processing: A Yokohama Perspective
Friday, August 13, 1999
Abstract
Toshiyuki Gotoh

Gaze Control: Active and Adaptive
Friday, July 16, 1999
Lin Wang

Parietal and Collicular Representation of Saccades
Friday, May 21, 1999
Abstract
Martin Par

Ocular Dominance Columns in V1 Revealed using fMRI
Friday, February 19, 1999
Abstract
Ravi Menon

Melanie Campbell
Friday, January 22, 1999
Melanie Campbell
Waterloo

Rangefinding Using Time Correlated Single Photon Counting
Wednesday, January 13, 1999
Abstract
Manickam Umasuthan
Dept. of Computing and Electrical Engineering, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland

Neural Control of Vergence and Accommodation
Friday, January 8, 1999
Abstract
Paul Gamlin
Visual Science Research Centre, University of Alabama

Multimodal Prior Entry
Wednesday, January 6, 1999
Abstract
David I. Shore
Dalhousie Univ

Global Processes in Higher Level Form Vision
Friday, December 11, 1998
Abstract
Hugh Wilson
University of Chicago

Optimized Image Generation Techniques in Computer Graphics
Friday, November 20, 1998
Abstract
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger
York University

Sensorimotor Transforms During Eye and Head Movements
Monday, November 2, 1998
Doug Crawford

The Superior Colliculus
Friday, October 16, 1998
Abstract
Doug Munoz

The Moon Illusion
Wednesday, October 7, 1998
Abstract
Lloyd Kaufman

Internal Models of Virtual Objects
Tuesday, September 29, 1998
Abstract
Gabriel Robles De La Torre

The Correspondence Problem
Friday, September 18, 1998
Abstract
David Fleet

Contour Grouping in Natural Language
Friday, August 21, 1998
James Elder

2nd Order Motion and OKN & Visual Capture of Self Motion
Friday, August 14, 1998
Laurence Harris
York University

Manual Aiming and Prehension
Friday, August 7, 1998
Abstract
Heather Carnahan
Waterloo

Electroretinogram, Spectral Sensitivity and Glaucoma
Friday, July 24, 1998
Abstract
Harry G. Sperling

Cone Combinations
Friday, July 10, 1998
Abstract
Kathy Mullen

Eye and Head Movements
Thursday, July 9, 1998
Abstract
Bob Steinman

Headcentric Depth Perception
Wednesday, July 8, 1998
Abstract
Casper Erkelens

Stereovision
Friday, June 26, 1998
Brian Rogers
University of Oxford

Perceiving Self-Motion in Depth
Friday, May 22, 1998
Abstract
Stephen Palmisano

Layered Representations of Depth, Lightness, and Opacity
Friday, April 17, 1998
Abstract
Bart Anderson
MIT

Seeing Variable Stars
Friday, April 3, 1998
Abstract
Peter Hallet

Visual Processing of Impending Collision
Thursday, March 5, 1998
Abstract
Hongjin Sun

Binaural Sound Localization
Friday, January 16, 1998
Abstract
Evangelos Milios
York University

Spatial Attention and Saccadic Eye Movements
Friday, December 12, 1997
Abstract
James J Clark
McGill

Motor Learning in the Vestibulo-Occular Reflex
Friday, December 5, 1997
Abstract
Dianne Broussard

Solution to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Paradox by the Visual System
Friday, November 7, 1997
Abstract
Hiro Ono
York University

Blurring of Natural Images
Friday, October 24, 1997
Abstract
James Elder
York University

Eye to Head Transformation
Friday, October 17, 1997
Abstract
Eliana Klier, D. Lowey and J. D. Crawford
York University

Dynamic Retinotopic Coding
Friday, October 17, 1997
Abstract
Denise Henriques, D.Lowey, and J.D. Crawford
York University

Advice, Invention, and Reward
Friday, October 10, 1997
Martin Regan
York University

Mobile Reference Frames
Friday, September 26, 1997
Abstract
Dejan Todorovic

First and Second-Order Cues to Orientation
Friday, August 1, 1997
Abstract
Steven Dakin
McGill

Vestibular Adaptation During Microgravity
Tuesday, June 17, 1997
Abstract
Andy Clarke

After Images and Computing Gaze Direction
Friday, June 13, 1997
Abstract
A.P. (Sasha) Petrov

ARVO 97 Debriefing
Friday, May 23, 1997
Abstract

Visuomotor Coordinate Transformations and Pointing
Friday, May 23, 1997
Abstract
Zoubin Ghahramani
University of Toronto

The Role of Attention in Perceiving Motion
Monday, May 5, 1997
Abstract
Frans Verstraten
Japan

2nd-Order Steropsis
Friday, March 7, 1997
Laurie Wilcox
York University

Neural Basis of the Translational Vestibulo-Occular Reflex
Friday, February 7, 1997
Abstract
Dave Tomlinson
University of Toronto

Filling In
Friday, January 10, 1997
Abstract
Evan Thompson

Role of Vergence in Binocular Stereopsis
Friday, January 10, 1997
Abstract
Brian Rogers
University of Oxford

Magic Show
Thursday, December 19, 1996
Henry Gordon
York, Ontario Skeptics Society

Eye Fixations Over Displays
Friday, December 6, 1996
Abstract
John Senders

Neurosciences 1996
Friday, November 29, 1996
Doug Crawford
York University

Eye Movements and Attention
Thursday, November 14, 1996
Abstract
Eileen Kowler
Rutgers

Integrating Real and Virtual Displays
Monday, November 11, 1996
Abstract
Lori Bernstein

Age-Related Changes in Visual Pattern Analysis
Friday, November 1, 1996
Pat Bennett and Allison Sekuler
Psychology, University of Toronto

The Context of Alhazen’s Revolution in the Study of Visual Perception
Friday, October 11, 1996
Abdelhamid I. Sabra
History of Science Dept., Harvard University

Ocular Torison During Roll
Friday, October 4, 1996
Abstract
Eric Groen

Auditory Localization and Space
Friday, September 13, 1996
Abstract
Laurence Harris
York University

Hamster Vestibular System and Hypergravity
Wednesday, July 24, 1996
Eric Sondag
Amsterdam Medical Centre

Vestibulomotor Problems in Changed Gravity
Wednesday, July 17, 1996
Abstract
Otmar Bock
Koln University, Germany

Second Order Motion
Friday, July 5, 1996
Abstract
Andy Smith
Royal Holloway University of London

NRTP and 3D Saccadic Control
Wednesday, June 26, 1996
Abstract
John Van Opstal

ARVO
Friday, May 10, 1996
Abstract

Stereovision and Binocular Coordination
Friday, March 15, 1996
Abstract
Doug Tweed
University of Western Ontario

Questions Related to Colour Vision
Friday, March 1, 1996
Abstract
Paul Kaiser
York University

Everything That You Would Like To Know About Colour Vision But Were (previously) Afraidto Ask!
Friday, February 2, 1996
Abstract
Michael Jenkin
York University

Head Movements and Depth Perception
Friday, January 5, 1996
Abstract
Hiro Ono
York University

Artificial Life
Friday, December 1, 1995
Abstract
Demetri Terzopolous
Computer Science, University of Toronto

3D Eye Movement Control
Friday, October 20, 1995
Abstract
Doug Crawford
York University

Various Projects
Friday, October 6, 1995
Abstract
David Martin Regan
York University

Eye Movements and Proprioception
Monday, May 8, 1995
Ian Donaldson

Categorical Perception of Faces
Friday, May 5, 1995
Abstract
Vinod Goel
York University

Coding of Features by Multiple Attributes
Friday, April 7, 1995
Abstract
Josee Rivest
York University

Visual Attention
Thursday, March 30, 1995
Patrick Cavanagh

Why is There Attention in the Visual System
Friday, March 3, 1995
Abstract
John Tsotsos
Computer Science, University of Toronto

Various Projects
Friday, February 3, 1995
Abstract
Ian Howard
York University

Oculomotor Proprioception
Friday, January 6, 1995
Abstract
Marty Steinbach
York University

Coding Linear Movement
Friday, December 2, 1994
Abstract
Laurence Harris
York University

Neural Basis of Selective Attention
Friday, November 4, 1994
Abstract
Keith Grasse
York University

First Meeting
Friday, October 7, 1994
Abstract