Au revoir Tomas

20
Jun
0

Tomas Knapen has departed for his new postdoc position in Victor Lamme’s lab in Amsterdam where he will pursue his fMRI and other interests funded by his fabulous Veni award.

Best wishes from all of us.

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VSS 2010

20
May
0

Here is the listing of the 2 talks and 3 posters presented by our group at VSS:
Vision Sciences Society, May 7-13, 2010, Naples (Florida)

Predictive updating of attention to saccade targets
Martin Rolfs, Donatas Jonikaitis, Heiner Deubel, Patrick Cavanagh
Talk M. Rolfs, May 8 (Session name: Attention: Interactions with eye and hand movement)

Where are you looking? Pseudogaze in afterimages
Daw-An Wu, Patrick Cavanagh
Talk Daw-An Wu, May 12 (Session Name: Eye movements: Updating)

Temporal dynamics of remapping captured by peri‐saccadic motion trace
Martin Szinte, Mark Wexler, Patrick Cavanagh
Poster Session May 8 (Attention: Eye movements)

Effect of speed overestimation on manual hitting at low luminance
Maryam Vaziri Pashkam, Patrick Cavanagh
Poster Session May 9 (Perception and action: Pointing and hitting)

Orientation uncertainty reveals different detection strategies in noise
Rémy Allard, Patrick Cavanagh
Poster Session May 12 (Spatial vision: Masking)

The talks (abstracts) and posters can be found in the presentations section.

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PisaFest videos

18
Apr
0

From April 15th to 16th 2010, we had the pleasure to host seven vision scientists from Pisa for the sixth in our series of bi-laboratory Fests. Here are the videos showing our talks, where both labs introduced recent and forthcoming work.

PisaFest Videos

Select a video on the right and click on it to start it, you may need to scroll down the thumbnail icons to find the one you want. Once started, you have a timeline on the bottom that let’s you fast forward or back up. The videos are dark and grainy and the sound is often buzzy but it’s what we have, think of them as reminders of the presentations. The last presentation by David Burr and the following discussion did not record, or apparently they are still recording, in any case, they are not yet available. If you have any problems, send me an email: patrick.cavanagh@parisdescartes.fr
April 15th - First Session

Patrick Cavanagh (duration of talk : 35 min 47 s)
“Attending and enumerating”

David Burr (15 min 52 s)
“Main bit – Objects in motion”

Tomas Knapen (18 min 10 s)
“Remapping fmRI”

Marco Cicchini (18 min 13 s)
“Spatiotopy”

Thérèse Collins (15 min 25 s)
“Saccade adaptation and position”

Martin Szinte (18 min 01 s)
“Perisaccadic motion trace”

April 15th - Second Session

Maryam Vaziri Pashkam (duration of talk: 14 min 07 s)
“Speed distortions”

Roberto Arrighi & Eckart Zimmerman (35 min 12s)
“Size and biological motion adaptation”

Tomas Otto (16 min 46 s)
“The return of the race model”

Pascal Mamassian (17 min 24 s)
“Very surprising talk”

I-Fan Lin (17 min 03 s)
“Localization and identity memory of saccade target”

April 16th - First Session

Concetta Moronne (38 min 02 s)
“Plasticity of remapped fields”

Rémy Allard (19 min 51 s)
“Efficiency of averaging orientation”

Bilge Sayim (14 min 10 s)
“Popout and crowding”

Simona Buetti (23 min 06 s)
“Simon effects”

Patrick Cavanagh (25 min 54 s)
“Masking”

April 16th - Second Session

Sofia Crespi (23 min 05 s)
“mt and spatiotopy”

Tomas Knapen (21 min 43 s)
“Remapping shape”

Arezoo Pooresmaeili (23 min 14 s)
“Object-based attention”

Andrei Gorei (15 min 33 s)
“Estimating duration”

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PisaFest

7
Apr
0

In April 2010, the 15th and 16th to be exact, we’re welcoming Maria Concetta Morrone, David Burr and their colleagues from Pisa (Italy) to our lab for the 6th in our series of mini-conferences: the PisaFest. The conference will be broadcasted over the internet, so stay tuned!

The program of our miniconference: pisafest.

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Au revoir Martin and Claudia

16
Mar
0

After being in our group for two years, Martin Rolfs and Claudia Buss (and their son Jesper) leave us for New York where Martin has a Marie Curie postdoc with Marisa Carrasco.
Best wishes from all of us.

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A new article in TiCS

5
Mar
0

The article “Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers” (authors: Patrick Cavanagh, Amelia R. Hunt, Arash Afraz and Martin Rolfs) is in press in Trends in Cognitive Sciences pdf

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Three new postdocs joining our lab!

14
Feb
0

A major crew change is coming up! Soon we will welcome these three new postdocs to our lab:
Bilge Sayim, arriving June 1 from Michael Herzog’s lab in EPFL, Lausanne,
Elisabeth Hein arriving July 1 from Cathleen Moore’s lab at the University of Iowa,
John Greenwood, arriving January 1, 2011, from Steve Dakin’s lab at UCL.

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LondonFest videos

12
Feb
0

From February 8th to 9th 2010, we had the pleasure to host a number of vision scientists from London for the fifth in our series of bi-laboratory Fests. Here are the videos showing our talks, where both labs introduced recent and forthcoming work.


LondonFest Videos

Oh my God, I forgot to push the record button for the first sesssion Monday. Oops, lost forever. Sorry. The recordings we did get for Monday are all in a bunch and you can use the table below to find the start of each of the 6 talks. All the videos are shown in the on the ON-DEMAND list on the right. Click on one to play it. You can stop, advance or rewind video using the timeline that appears along the bottom. Occasionally, the video provider will put an advertisement at the bottom of the video, just click the x to turn it off. If you have any problems or questions, email me at <patrick.cavanagh@parisdescartes.fr>

Use this table to find start points of videos from Monday after the coffee break. The 6 talks before the coffee break were not recorded.

Feb 8th Second Session, second half

Martin Szinte starts at 0 min
“Continuous motion seen during a saccade. “

Mark Wexler starts at 21:45
“Galvanometers in the modern lab. “

Jean Lorenceau starts at 38:20
“Remote induction of bistable perception. “

Pascal Mamassian starts at 52:20
“Surprise talk “

Thomas Otto starts at 1:05:34
“Non-retinotopic perceptual learning “

Josh Solomon starts at 1:18:22
“Discriminating between different mean orientations,
mean sizes, orientation variances, and size variances”

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LondonFest

28
Jan
0

On the 8th and 9th of February 2010, we’re welcoming a group of vision scientists from London to our lab for a mini-conference. Videos of the presentations will be available live at http://www.livestream.com/londonfest and after the meeting at our web site on this page.

The timetable of our miniconference: londonfest

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Opinion piece on remapping accepted in TiCS

25
Jan
0

Our opinion article “Visual stability based on remapping of attention pointers” has just been accepted in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. In this paper we describe a new “sparse remapping” interpretation of how we keep track of things in the world. You find a preprint here.

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