********************************************************************** BU CAS/CNS Noon Colloquium INFANTS' SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION OF WORDS Professor...
Stephen Grossberg
steve@...
Oct 26, 2000 12:35 pm
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Anthony Norcia is a leading researcher of perceptual grouping in vision, as well as of infant visual development. He had a widely-cited Nature paper with Uri...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Oct 26, 2000 2:33 pm
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Henry Markram is one of the world's leading researchers on synaptic plasticity, esp. looking at how synapses dynamically process information, and how they...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Oct 26, 2000 3:05 pm
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Helen Neville had a Nature paper last year on cross-modal plasticity (ref below), and she has also done a lot of important work on the development of cortical...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Oct 26, 2000 3:28 pm
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Russ Poldrack has done some very interesting work on fMRI of skill learning, and also has a recent NeuroImage paper on conceptual and methodological issues in...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Oct 26, 2000 3:32 pm
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... Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 09:55:40 -0400 From: Ann Green <agreen@...> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; U) Subject: Hearing Research Seminar - Friday,...
Norbert Kopco
kopco@...
Oct 26, 2000 4:58 pm
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********************************************************************** BU CAS/CNS Seminar Talk EFFICIENT COMPUTATION AND CUE INTEGRATION WITH POPULATION CODES ...
Diana Meyers
diana@...
Oct 27, 2000 3:58 pm
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Dear List members, This is more of a hopeful request than an administrative update. This list was organized with two purposes in mind. First, to provide a list...
Satrajit S. Ghosh
satra@...
Oct 27, 2000 6:54 pm
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I am not an expert in this field, but I can say that research based on stem cells is one of the hottest areas of neuroscience. This guy is the head of a ...
Aaron Seitz
aseitz@...
Oct 30, 2000 4:24 pm
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Spatio-temporal coordinates: Thursday, November 2 at 4:00 E25-401, 4th floor conference room. (near Kendall-MIT T-stop). Speaker: Alan Leslie, Rutgers...
Satrajit S. Ghosh
satra@...
Oct 30, 2000 5:46 pm
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There are two (very) big name talks at Brandeis tomorrow. It's kind of hard to get there without a car, but probably worth it for speakers of this caliber. I...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 1, 2000 10:25 pm
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Below are two more Brandeis talks coming up soon, again from the webpage: http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/seminarsthisweek.html Aaron, Satra and I, the three...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 1, 2000 11:11 pm
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Ruth Litovsky has done a lot of very important researcher on psychological and physiological aspects of hearing. Her interests include the precedence effect...
Norbert Kopco
kopco@...
Nov 2, 2000 9:34 pm
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Andy came to MIT from Brian Moore's lab at Cambridge U Exp Psych Dept. He's done a lot of work in psychoacoustics, recently focusing on the response of the...
Norbert Kopco
kopco@...
Nov 2, 2000 9:46 pm
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Zvia Breznitz has been researching the effects of reading rate and accuracy on reading fluency in both Hebrew and English. She has evidence to suggest that...
Maya Misra
mmisra@...
Nov 13, 2000 5:28 pm
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Axelrod shared the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the actions of neurotransmitters in regulating the metabolism of the nervous...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 13, 2000 5:44 pm
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As well as having carried out several important studies of the neural correlates of decision making in macaques, Shadlen has also written some bracing...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 13, 2000 5:52 pm
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Sorry about the short notice on this one. It only got sent out to bcs-talks a few mins ago. I confess to not having heard of the speaker, but Medline shows...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 13, 2000 6:00 pm
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Sweeney has done a lot of work on fMRI of eye movements and also spatial working memory, also looking at how these vary between normal subjects and patient...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 13, 2000 6:10 pm
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It's not everyday that someone gives a talk about hooking up real neurons to electronic neurons in a functional circuit, so this could be very interesting....
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 13, 2000 6:27 pm
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Adele Diamond is a very important developmental neuropsychologist, who has recently started doing fMRI work as well. I noticed from her webpage that she has a...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 14, 2000 9:27 pm
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Adelson is one of the world's leading vision scientists, concentrating especially on "mid-level" vision, namely how we perceive surfaces, objects, perceptually...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 14, 2000 9:55 pm
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In his talk Dr. Raizada will be discussing a laminar model of V1 that he developed with Steve Grossberg. This model is broadly consistent with known anatomy...
Aaron Seitz
aseitz@...
Nov 15, 2000 2:17 pm
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The existence of information in the fine temporal structure of spike patterns has become a very hot issue. To some this is the way that the brain can improve...
Aaron Seitz
aseitz@...
Nov 15, 2000 2:35 pm
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These are two talks by students of Tomaso Poggio --- they might be PhD thesis defenses. They will almost certainly be interesting to CompSci / neural network...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 15, 2000 11:50 pm
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Spatio-temporal locations: MGH: (Charlestown) , Ist floor Time: Noon Title: Anatomy of Stroke: Difficulties and Explorations with MRI Speaker: Verne Caviness ...
Satrajit S. Ghosh
satra@...
Nov 21, 2000 2:04 pm
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This is a real treat coming up for anyone who's interested in prefrontal cortex, which seems to be everyone these days. Michael Petrides is one of the world's...
Rajeev Raizada
raj@...
Nov 22, 2000 7:43 pm
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Gottlieb has been around the field for a long time doing work that everyone acknowledges is important but no one knows just what to make of it. He has clearly...
Aaron Seitz
aseitz@...
Nov 24, 2000 5:59 pm
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Spatiotemporal coordinates: MGH: (Charlestown) , Ist floor, Research affairs conference room Time: Wed 29th, 12:00pm Title: Automatic Segmentation of...
Satrajit S. Ghosh
satra@...
Nov 28, 2000 3:17 am
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This talk may prove an interesting explanation of the orientation maps found in the superficial layers of visual cortex. There is much evidence showing ...