Workshop on
Natural Environments Tasks and Intelligence


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Friday, April 11, 2014

8:30 am

Registration

9:15 am

Opening Remarks and Welcome (Bill Geisler)


Session: Active Vision and Search

9:30 am

Jeff Schall

Computational and neural mechanisms guiding gaze during visual search

10:15 am

Miguel Eckstein

Rapidly looking at faces: A sensory optimization theory

11:00 am

Break

11:30 am

Peter Bex

Bridging the gulf between classical psychophysics and natural behavior

12:15 pm

Discussion: Bill Geisler

12:45 pm

Lunch


Session: Computation in Natural Behaviors

2:00 pm

Brett Fajen

The visual control of walking over complex terrain

2:45 pm

Constantin Rothkopf

From natural stimuli to natural tasks and back

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Konrad Koerding

What is going on during natural scene search

4:45 pm

Discussion: Dana Ballard

5:15 pm

Reception: Patio


Saturday, April 12, 2014

Session: Exploiting Natural Scene Structure

9:00 am

Roland Fleming

Shape from orientation flows

9:45 am

Dan Kersten

Human cortical responses to natural images: Some puzzles and a few ideas

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

David Brainard

Color constancy in natural tasks

11:45 am

Discussion: Johannes Burge

12:15 pm

Lunch

2:00 - 4:00

Poster Sessions

4:00 - 5:30

Lab Tours

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Session: Neural Coding and Decisions

9:00 am

Joshua Gold

Drift diffusion in a dynamic world

9:45 am

Jonathan Pillow

Statistical encoding and decoding of decision-related signals from spike trains in parietal cortex

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Adam Kohn

Spatial and temporal contextual effects in vision

11:45 am

Discussion: Alex Huk

12:15 pm

Lunch


Session: Neural Coding of Action

1:15 pm

Bijan Pesaran

A role for coherent neural activity in coordinating looking and reaching

2:00 pm

Kari Hoffman

Interactions of visual search and neural activity in the temporal lobe

2:45 pm

Ila Fiete

Neural codes and dynamics for representation and memory

3:30 pm

Discussion: Eyal Seidemann