Past Events

Zoom Brown Bag: Awesome PowerPoint Features, with a Focus on Accessibility

Wednesday, September 8th, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract - In the process of focusing on how to design PowerPoint presentations that are accessible to people with visual impairment, color blindness, or no usable screen vision, this seminar will…

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Zoom Brown Bag: Noise in the Machine: Challenges and Potential Solutions for Wearable Eye Tracking, particularly in Individuals with Eccentric Fixation

Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract: Developments in wearable eye tracking devices make them an attractive solution for studies of eye movements during naturalistic head/body motion. However, before these "systems" potential…

Brown Bag

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Zoom Brown Bag: Neural representation of physical and perceived environmental acoustics

Wednesday, July 28th, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract - Most real-world hearing occurs in acoustically cluttered, reverberant environments, making perceptual segregation of sound sources critical. Reverberation signal carries environmental…

Brown Bag

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Zoom Brown Bag: A Friendly Introduction to Git and GitHub (for non-programmers… who have to program).

Wednesday, July 21st, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract - Although programming may have once been a niche skill, the abundance of coding languages, environments, and libraries that are geared for practically any scientific pursuit has made…

Brown Bag

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Society for Human Brain Mapping and Therapeutics Annual Conference

Thursday, July 8th, 2021 – 10:30am to Sunday, July 11th, 2021 – 5:30pm

Optometry track of the Annual World Congress of the Society for Human Brain Mapping and Therapeutics

Conference

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Postponed Zoom Colloquium: This date is reserved

Thursday, July 1st, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

The title and abstract are forthcoming. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/psychology/faculty/fp4834 Improving Zoom accessibility for people with hearing impairments People with hearing impairments often…

Colloquium

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Zoom Colloquium: Eye movements as readout of predictive and decision processes

Thursday, June 24th, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract - Visually-guided orienting eye movements (saccades and smooth pursuit) are primarily determined by the physical properties of the target stimuli. However, cognitive factors, such as…

Colloquium

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Zoom Brown Bag: A New Model of Binocular Eye Movement Control

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract - Despite that we have two eyes, dominant models of voluntary eye movement control except a single input, and issue a single conjugate command, in accordance with Hering’s Law. When midline…

Brown Bag

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Literacy skills for students with CVI

Thursday, June 17th, 2021 – 2:30pm to 4:30pm

On Thursday we have our much-anticipated speaker- Dr. Cay Holbrook. If you search her name you come up with so many publications, research projects, keynotes, books, and editing credits it is hard to…

Community Outreach

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Zoom Brown Bag: Understanding Smooth Pursuit Deficits in Macular Degeneration

Wednesday, June 16th, 2021 – 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Abstract - Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most prevalent cause of central visual field loss. Since the high-acuity fovea (the oculomotor locus) is often impaired in AMD, people…

Brown Bag

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