Blurring the Borders Between Vision, Cognition, and Action
26th Symposium: May 29-31, 2008
Wednesday, May 28
7:00 - 10:00 PM Registration & Welcome Reception, 269 Meliora Hall, River Campus
Thursday, May 29
8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast, Medical Center Atrium
8:45 AM Welcome, Tatiana Pasternak & Duje Tadin
Visual & Cognitive Circuits
Chair: Liz Romanski
9:00 - 9:45 AM Simon Thorpe, CNRS, France
From vision to action in 100 ms – is there time for cognition?
9:45 - 10:30 AM Emilio Salinas, Wake Forest University
How behavioral constraints influence sensory tuning curves
11:00 - 11:45 AM Helen Barbas, Boston University
How the frontal lobe controls the mind's eye
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Leslie Ungerleider, NIMH
The primate prefrontal cortex and the executive control of attention
12:30 - 1:00 PM Discussion Session
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch, Medical Center Atrium
Visual Signals in Cognitive Circuits
Chair: Greg DeAngelis
2:00 - 2:45 PM Tatiana Pasternak, University of Rochester
Representation of visual motion during motion discrimination tasks in primate prefrontal cortex
2:45 - 3:30 PM Andreas Nieder, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Representation of number in the primate brain
3:30 - 4:00 PM Break (Refreshments will be served), Medical Center Atrium
4:00 - 4:45 PM John Assad, Harvard Medical School
Encoding behavioral relevance in parietal cortex
4:45 - 5:30 PM Wendy Suzuki, New York University
Associative learning signals in the monkey medial temporal lobe
5:30 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session
6:00 - 7:00 PM Posters
7:30 - 9:30 PM Dinner, Colgate Divinity School
Friday, May 30
8:00 AM Breakfast, Medical Center Atrium
Cognitive Influences on Visual Processing I
Chair: Charles Duffy
9:00 - 9:45 AM Marisa Carrasco, New York University
Spatial and feature-based attention: psychophysics and neuroimaging studies
9:45 - 10:30 AM Frank Tong, Vanderbilt University
Decoding the contents of perception and attention from human brain activity
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break (Refreshments will be served), Medical Center Atrium
11:00 - 11:45 AM David Heeger, New York University
The normalization model of attention
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen, Germany
Attentional influences on motion processing in area MT: of space, features and objects
12:30 - 1:00 PM Discussion Session
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch, Medical Center Atrium
Cognitive Influences on Visual Processing II
Chair: Duje Tadin
2:00 - 2:45 PM Patrick Cavanagh, University of Paris, France
Attention and nonretinotopic processing in vision
2:45 - 3:30 PM Charles Gilbert, The Rockefeller University
Brain states
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM Carl Olson, Carnegie Mellon University
Selectivity for features, conjunctions and configurations in ventral stream cortex
4:45 - 5:30 PM Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology
Behavioral and neural correlates of visual preference decision making
5:30 - 6:00 PM Discussion Session
6:00 - 7:00 PM Posters
7:30 -9:30 PM Dinner, Medical Center Atrium
Saturday, May 31
8:00 AM Breakfast, Medical Center Atrium
Vision During Action
Chair: David Knill
9:00 - 9:45 AM David Burr, University of Florence
Keeping vision stable
9:45 - 10:30 AM Carol Colby, University of Pittsburgh
Attention and active vision
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break (Refreshments will be served), Medical Center Atrium
11:00 - 11:45 AM Tirin Moore, Stanford University
Mechanisms of saccadic suppression in ventral visual cortex
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt University
Actions can arbitrate visual conflict
12:30 - 1:00 PM Discussion Session
1:00 - 2:00 PM Lunch, Medical Center Atrium
This conference was supported by NSF (BCS-0817365), ONR (N00014-08-1-0720), and the Center for Visual Science.
Organizing Committee:
Tatiana Pasternak
Duje Tadin