Dr. Boynton joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in 1952 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. In 1963, Dr. Boynton founded the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science (CVS), and served as director of CVS until 1971. He was well known for his research on the neurophysiological processes in the eye and brain that underlie vision. His book, "Human Color Vision" is a standard text studied by others in this area of science. He also published more than 1,500 pages in his more-than-40-year career. The CVS Boynton Colloquium Series, which features leading researchers across the interdisciplinary field of vision research, is named in his honor.
Upcoming Boynton Colloquia
April 24, 2024
3:00 p.m., Rm 2-6408, K207 Auditorium & Zoom (Register for the webinar
https://tinyurl.com/usreyboynton)
W. Martin Usrey, UC Davis
Feedforward and Feedback Interactions between Thalamus and Cortex for Vision
The thalamus and cerebral cortex are interconnected by a dense network of feedforward and feedback circuits. In the visual system, the response properties of neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus and primary visual cortex (V1) are governed by the anatomical organization of these connections and the temporal patterns of impulse arrival. Results will be presented from experiments using multielectrode recordings and optogenetic manipulation to examine the specificity of neuronal connections and the role of spike timing and behavioral modulation in the reciprocal exchange of information between the LGN and V1 in the alert macaque monkey. These results reveal a striking relationship between the parallel feedforward and feedback processing streams, as well as the biophysical properties that govern spike transfer and the encoding of visual information in neuronal spike trains.
Past Boynton Colloquia
2024
April 10, 2024
Trent Watkins, UC San Francisco
The Double‐Edged Sword of Stress Signaling in Optic Axons
March 13, 2024
Kapil Bharti, National Eye Institute
Translating RPE Biology into Disease Treatment Using iPS Cells
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2023
January 31, 2024
Jess Cardin, Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine
Cortical network events underlying perceptual behavior
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May 17, 2023
Simon Kelly, University College Dublin
Insights into adaptive perceptual decision formation from human behavior, EEG, and cognitive modelling
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May 3, 2023
Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
The Cognitive Visual Thalamus
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January 18, 2023
Bryan Jones, University of Utah
Retinal Connectomics and Pathoconnectomics
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2022
December 14, 2022
Carlos Ponce, Harvard Medical School
Tuning landscapes of the primate ventral stream
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April 27, 2022
Jennifer Bizley, University College London
How do audiovisual interactions shape sound processing in auditory cortex?
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