Past Events

Natela will be presenting the paper "Strategies for Gaze Stabilization Critically Depend on Locomotor Speed," Neuroscience. By Dietrich & Wuehr, 2019.

Abstract: This is the first of a series of Brown Bag sessions about using the SKERI Website to communicate our science and mission to the outside world. The first session will focus on creating an…

Abstract: Flexibility is of the remarkable properties of the human brain. I will describe research on how the human brain does and does not change in response to blindness. On the one hand, meaning…

Abstract: We have shown previously that individuals with dense central scotomas due to macular degeneration have better eye-hand coordination when they have coarse stereopsis. Here we investigate the…

Santani Teng will be presenting the paper "Sensitive Period for Cognitive Repurposing of Human Visual Cortex" ( Kanjlia, Pant, & Bedny, 2018).

Abstract: What is the nature of the neural code in primate primary visual cortex (V1)? Two key properties of primate V1 are relevant to this question. First, V1 representations are widely distributed…

Our next speaker will be Dr. Manfred MacKeben. Dr. MacKeben will discuss how to deal with failing eyesight and the necessity to break old habits. Join us to share experiences and learn about the…

Abstract: One of the classic papers in the field of vision research is ‘Energy, Quanta and Vision’ (1942) by Hecht, Shlaer & Pirenne. I take this as a jumping-off point for a 21st century…

Sponsored by Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute Pacific Vision Foundation California Pacific Medical Center

Preeti Verguese will be presenting the paper “Natural image and receptive field statistics predict saccade sizes” (Samonds, Geisler and Priebe, 2018).