VASC Seminar Announcement
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 Date: Monday April 22th
 Time: 3:30 - 4:40
 Location: NSH 1507

 Speaker:  Marlene Behrmann
 Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University, Psychology and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
 Web: http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/people/behrmann.html

 Title:  Cognitive Neuroscience and Human Vision

 Abstract:

In the primate visual system, the identification of objects and the
processing of spatial information are accomplished by two different cortical
pathways, known respectively as the 'what' and the 'where' pathways.
Although there is now a wealth of data supporting the dissociation
between these two visual routes, there is remarkably little research
on the way in which information from the independent streams is coordinated.
The focus of my work is on characterizing the individual operation
of these two routes but also on exmaining how the output from
these pathways gives rise to coherent perception. I will describe
the methods used to address these issues, including human
psychophysics from normal and brain-damaged individuals, single 
unit recording in monkeys, functional imaging and computational
modelling, and will provide examples from these different
methods to shed light on the research questions.