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Vision Science Research Guest Speakers
Date
Upcoming Speakers
December 9, 2009
Christopher L. Moore
CICN/VBI
January 27, 2010
Dan Javitt
CICN/VBI
February 24, 2010
TBA
May 4, 2010
John Reynolds
CICN/VBI
Date
Past Speakers
May 20, 2009
Mary Hayhoe, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin

What guides visual attention and working memory
in natural environments?
March 16, 2009
Michael Goldberg, MD
David Mahoney Professor of
Brain and Behavior in the Departments of
Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Ophthalmology
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

On the agonosticism of spikes: saccades, attention
and priority in the parietal cortex.
October 15, 2008
Andrew Hollingworth, Ph.D
Department of Psychology
The University of Iowa

The Role of Visual Working Memory in
Establishing Object Correspondence
Across Saccades and Brief Occlusion
October 3, 2008
Tatiana Pasternak, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy
University of Rochester

What does prefrontal cortex "know" about
visual motion used in discrimination tasks?
.

Neuroscience "Brown Bag" Seminar Series Fall 2009
Room 316, Wilson Hall
Thursdays, 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Date
Speaker
Sept. 3
Rob Friedman, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology

Cortical Topography of Tactile Motion in Primates
Sept. 10
Zheng Wang, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Roe Lab

Modeling neural-hemodynamics in V1 of
awake macaques: implications for parallel regulation
of neurovascular coupling
Sept. 17
Gopathy Purushothaman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
Casagrande Lab

Temporal dynamics of detection and discrimination
in the primary visual cortex
Sept. 24
Jascha Swisher, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Tong Lab

High-field, high-resolution fMRI of human visual cortex
Oct. 1
David Godlove
Dept. of Psychology

The Role of Reward in Eliciting Short-Latency
Express Saccades.Schall lab
Oct. 8
René Marois
Dept. of Psychology

On the neural basis of attentional control, awareness
and Vanderbilt’s legacy
Oct. 15
Tomas Knapen
Centre d'Attention et Vision
Laboratoire Pyschologie de la Perception
Université Paris Descartes

Bistable perception engages multiple
decision-making mechanisms
Oct. 22
No Seminar
SFN
Oct. 29
Roan Marion
Dept. of Psychology
Casagrande Lab

The organization of pulvinar and V1 inputs to V2
Nov. 5
Jeremiah Cohen
Dept. of Psychology
Schall Lab

Cooperation and competition among frontal
eye field neurons during visual target selection
Nov. 12
Whitney Cleghorn
Dept. of Psychology
Gurevich Lab

Caspase Cleavage of Arrestin1 in Photoreceptor Apoptosis
Nov. 19
Matt Nelson
Dept. of Psychology
Schall Lab
Nov. 26
No Seminar
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 3
Omar Gharbawie, Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Kaas Lab
Dec. 10
John Kaas Ph.D
Dept. of Psychology
Dec. 17
Hisashi Tanigawa, Ph. D
Dept. of Psychology
Roe Lab
Seminars



Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Colloquium Series Fall 2009
Wilson Hall 115
Fridays, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Date
Speaker
Friday 8/28/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Gordon Logan
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Friday, 9/4/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Sam Ling, Postdoc
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Friday 9/11/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Laura Novick
Psychology and Human Development
Peabody College
Friday, 9/18/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Roger S. Taylor, Ph.D.
Psychology and Human Development &
Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)
Learning Sciences Institute
Vanderbilt University
Friday 9/25/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Claudia Wilimig, Postdoc
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

Neural field models of sensory-motor and cognitive tasks.
Friday 10/2/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Marci S. DeCaro
Graduate Student
Department of Psychology
Miami University
Oxford OH 45056
Friday 10/9/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Min-Suk Kang, Postdoc
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

Is there unconscious semantic processing during
rivalry suppression?
Friday 10/16/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Laura Thomas, Postdoc
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
Friday 10/23/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Norbert Ross
Anthropology Department
Vanderbilt University
Friday 10/30/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Tim McNamara
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

Maintaining Orientation with Geometric and
Non-geometric Cues During Locomotion
Friday 11/6/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Daryl Fougnie
Marois Lab
Department of Psychology
Friday 11/13/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Isabel Gauthier
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

Would it matter to YOUR experiment?
Friday 11/20/09
NO TALK - PSYCHONOMICS
Friday 11/27/09
NO TALK - THANKSGIVING
Friday 12/11/09
115 Wilson Hall
4:00 PM
Geoff Woodman
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University



Clinical "Brown Bag" Series Fall 2009
Wilson Hall, room 316
Tuesdays, 12:10 - 1:00 p.m.

Date Speaker
Tue, Sept. 29 Ronald Cowan
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology
Director, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program
Vanderbilt University

MDMA (Ecstasy) use is associatedwith widespread changes
in brain neurophysiology in human recreational drug users
Tue, Oct. 6 CANCELLED
Tue, Oct. 13 TBA
Tue, Oct. 20 Bahr Weiss, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, Peabody

Clinical Psychology in Vietnam
Tue, Oct. 27 Stephen Benning
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

You've Gotta Know It to Lie It: P3 As
a Measure of Concealed Information
Tue, Nov. 3 Tom Armstrong
Graduate Student/Olatunji Lab
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University

The Moderating Effects of Trait Contamination Fear on State
Affect and Information-Processing: Examination of Disgust Specificity
Tue, Nov. 10 Richard Shelton
James G. Blakemore Research Professor of
Psychiatry and Professor of Pharmacology
Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Tue, Nov. 17 Andrew Tomarken
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Psychology

Statistical Methods
Tue, Dec. 1 Shelagh Mulvaney
Assistant Professor of Nursing;
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Kennedy Center
Tue, Dec. 8
Kushal Patel
A prostate cancer screening Program for low
income African American Men.
CICN Special Seminar
Date
Speaker
Thur, Nov. 12, 2009
103 Wilson Hall
4:10 PM
David Lyon, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
University of California, at Irvine
2009 “Randolph Blake Early Career Award” Winner

Circuits mediating surround suppression in primary visual cortex.

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