Vision Science banner
   

 

 

Oxyopias Archive 1995

Basic, clinical, or applied vision topics hosted by the UCB School of Optometry.

Current Oxyopias: Current-year Schedule

Past Oxyopias: Archived Oxyopias

 

Oxyopias Schedule


Friday, December 8, 12:00 - 1:00, Room 489 Minor Hall

Jochen Braun

Computation and Neural Systems, Caltech
Host: Jitendra Malik

Too terrible to behold: visual conflict induces blindsight in healthy observer

 

Friday, December 1, 12:00 - 1:00, Room 489 Minor Hall

Arnold Stoper and Justin Randle
Psychology Dept., California State University, Hayward
The effect of environmental pitch on apparent zenith

Stanley Klein and Scott Slotnick
Vision Science, UC Berkeley
Double judgment methodology for vision and memory research

Tuesday, November 28, 12:00 - 1:00 Beach Room (3105 Tolman Hall)

Jeff Gray

UC Davis

Response synchronization in visual cortex: mechanisms and functions

 

Wednesday, November 22, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 100 Minor Hall

Thomas Heckmann

General Motors R&D Div.
Host: Martin Banks

Evaluating a camouflage model for measuring vehicle conspicuity

 

Tuesday, November 21, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 100 Minor Hall

Lynn Olzak

Psychology Dept. UCLA
Host: Stanley Klein

Recoding Sensations into Percepts: Model and Mechanisms of Human Pattern Vision

 

The following Cognitive Science colloquium is vision related.
Friday, November 17, 11:00 - 12:30 Room 306 Soda Hall

Dr. Mary Kaiser
NASA Ames Research Center

Active Control Examination of Depth Cue Integration

 

Friday, November 17, 4:00 - 5:30. Rm 2050 Valley Life Sciences Bldg

Antonio R. Damasio, MD, PhD
Prof. of Neurology, Univ. of Iowa Medical School
Host: Elwin Marg

Emotion, reason and the human brain

 

Friday, November 3, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Manfred Mackeben
Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Host: Bettina Beard

The topography of sustained focal attention

 

Friday, October 27, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Michael Land
School of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Sussex
Host: Gerald Westheimer

Unusual optics in animal eyes

 

Friday, October 27,10:00 - 11:00 Room 355 Minor Hall

Michael Land
School of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Sussex
Host: Martin Banks

Why animals move their eyes
(at Smith Kettlewell?)

How vision guides steering

 

Friday, October 13, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Stephen Heinen
Smith Kettlewell Eye Research
Host: Cliff Schor

Exploring the cognito-motor interface: Frontal cortical involvement in predictive eye movements.

 

Friday, October 13, 4:00 - 5:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Louis Toth
Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Host: Ralph Freeman

Physiology of lateral connectivity in primary visual cortex

 

Friday, October 6, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Raymond van Ee
Dept of Medical Physics, Univ of Utrecht
Host: Marty Banks

The stability of binocular depth perception

 

Tuesday, September 26, 5:00 - 6:00, Room 240 Bechtel

Lawrence Stark
Professor of Engineering Science and Optometry, UCB

Why Virtual Reality Works: Vision As An Illusion

 

The following seminar is cosponsored with Molecular & Cell Biology
Wednesday, September 27, 12-1:30, 177 LSA

Don Zack
Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins Medical School
Hosts: Beth Burnside and John Flannery

Regulation of Rhodopsin Gene Expression

 

Friday, September 22, 12:00, Room 489 Minor Hall

Al Ahumada, Beau Watson and Ann Marie Rohaly

Object detection in natural backgrounds predicted by discrimination performace and models

 

Friday, September 22, 12:30pm, Room 489 Minor Hall

Christopher Tyler and V. Ramachandran

What the flounder's eye tells the flounder's skin

 

Friday, September 8, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall
at 12:10,

Julie Harris, Harvey Smallman
Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute and Univ. of Durham

Visual distortion products from an expansive nonlinearity

 

Friday, September 8, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall
... at 12:30,

Harvey Smallman, Julie Harris
Univ. of Durham and Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Spatial frequency selectivity of contrast-modulated masking

... at 12:10,
Suzanne McKee, Julie Harris, Scott Watamaniuk.

Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Detection of motion in depth is disrupted by static disparity.

... at 12:30,
Stanley Klein, Qingmin Hu, Thom Carney
School of Optometry, UC Berkeley

Spatiotemporal masking: towards a fidelity metric for image sequences

 

Tuesday, July 11, 4:00 - 5:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Patrick Cavanagh
Psychology Dept., Harvard Univ.
Host: Stan Klein

Attention-based visual processes

 

Wednesday, June 21, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Ken Nakayama
Psychology Dept., Harvard Univ.
Host: Larry Stark

A primitive visual memory system mediating rapid shifts in attention & saccadic eye movements

 

Friday, May 5, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Marty Sereno
Cognitive Science Dept., UC San Diego

Mapping visual cortical areas in monkeys and humans

 

Friday, April 28, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Heidi Baseler
School of Optometry, UC Berkeley
Host: Stanley Klein

Evoked Potential Correlates of Parallel Processing in the Human Visual System

 

Monday, April 24, 4:00 - 5:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Steve Engel
Psychology Department, Stanford Univ.
Host: Thom Carney

Mapping Human Primary Visual Cortex with Functional MRI

 

Monday, April 3, 4:00 - 5:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Christine Wildsoet
School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Host: Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy

Can Emmetropization Cause Myopia?

 

Monday, March 27, 4:00 - 5:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Susan Leat
School of Optometry, University of Waterloo
Host: Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy

Contrast sensitivity charts: Prediction of reading rates and validity

 

Friday, March 24, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 100 Minor Hall

David Bisno, M.D. (Ophthalmologist), M.S. (History of Science)
Clinical Prof. of Ophthalmology, Dartmouth Medical School
Host: Jay Enoch

The Rise and Fall of the Dartmouth Eye Institute (DEI)

 

Friday, March 24, 10:00 - 11:00

George Carman
Psychology Dept., UC San Diego
Host: Ben Backus

Representation of Relative Depth from Motion and Stereo Cues in the Primate Visual Pathway

 
Thursday, March 23 4:00 - 5:00

Jun Zhang
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Host: Russell De Valois

Locus Analysis: Understanding Neuronal Processing During a Sensorimotor-Decision

 

Thursday, March 16, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 100 Minor Hall

Austin K. Micheff
Professor of Physiology & Biophysics and Ophthalmology, Univ. of Southern California
Hosts: Ken Polse and Joe Bonnano

Autoimmmunity and Autoimmune Disease in the Lacrimal Gland: The Acinar Cell's Provocative Behavior

 

Monday, March 6, 4:00 - 5:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Mark Bullimore
School of Optometry, UC Berkeley
Host: Gunilla Haegerstrom-Portnoy

Motion Perception in Normal and Glaucoma Patients

 

Friday, March 3, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Sheila West
Johns Hopkins
Host: Ken Polse

 

*Note: the following is a Psychology seminar of interest to vision researchers*
Thursday, February 23, 4:00-5:30, Beach room, Tolman Hall

John Maunsell
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor University
Host: Russ De Valois

Neural Representations of Attended Visual Targets in Monkey Visual Cortex

 

Friday, February 17, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Attendees of the Santa Fe meeting will present:

Highlights of the 1995 OSA Topical meeting on Vision Science and its Applications (the Noninvasive meeting)

 

Wednesday, February 15, 10:00 - 11:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Don Hood
Psychology Dept., Columbia Univ.
Host: Marilyn Schneck

Using the electroretinogram (ERG) to identify sites and mechanisms of retinal disease

 

Friday, February 10, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

James Thomas
Psychology Dept., UCLA
Host: Stanley Klein

 

Friday, January 27, 12:00 - 1:00 Room 489 Minor Hall

Peter Schiller
Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT
Host: Ralph Freeman

On the specificity of neurons and visual areas

 

Wednesday, January 18

Jeffrey Murray, MD
Dept. of Pediatrics and Biology, University of Iowa
Host: Karla Zadnik

Using high resolution human genetic maps to identify common human genetic disorders

 

Thursday, January 5, 12:00 - 1:00, 489 Minor Hall

Kent W. Small, MD
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA
Host: Karla Zadnik

Copyright © Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved.
Email: contact--at--optometry.berkeley.edu  [substitute "@" for "--at--"]