Lecture series - Andrew B. Watson (Apple)

Jaurès, 24 rue Lomond, 75005 Paris
Wed. Nov. 7, 10am-noon : "The windows of visibility: Limits to human vision and their application to visual technology" 
The next three lectures will take place in Room 235B, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris
Wed. Nov. 14, 10am-noon : "Computational models of early vision"
Wed. Nov. 21, 10am-noon: "Applications of vision models to display engineering"
Wed. Nov. 28, 10am-noon: "Advanced methods of perceptual testing"

Lecture series - Andrew B. Watson (Apple)

Jaurès, 24 rue Lomond, 75005 Paris
Wed. Nov. 7, 10am-noon : "The windows of visibility: Limits to human vision and their application to visual technology" 
The next three lectures will take place in Room 235B, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris
Wed. Nov. 14, 10am-noon : "Computational models of early vision"
Wed. Nov. 21, 10am-noon: "Applications of vision models to display engineering"
Wed. Nov. 28, 10am-noon: "Advanced methods of perceptual testing"

Measuring vision is important in a range of clinical settings, from monitoring the effectiveness of gene therapies for blinding eye conditions through to early detection of age-related eye diseases like glaucoma.  My lab uses technologies such as infrared eye tracking and virtual reality to measure and correct vision in groups that can be difficult to assess and/or treat. In this talk I will give overviews of several projects – inspired by basic psychophysical research – that deliver more reliable visual assessment, and novel platforms for treatment, of children.

Cross-modal processing (from physiology to behaviour)

October 18-19, 2018 at ENS in Jaurès, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris

This event is financed by the New Ideas in Hearing & Seeing programme.

Cross-modal processing (from physiology to behaviour)

October 18-19, 2018 at ENS in Jaurès, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris.

This event is financed by the New Ideas in Hearing & Seeing programme.
 

Just by listening, humans infer a host of useful information about events in the world. Much is known about peripheral auditory processing, but auditory cortex remains poorly understood, particularly in computational terms. Here I will talk about my work exploring computational properties of cortical responses, through the lens of invariance.

Programme et inscription en ligne sur le site de l'Institut Cognition

Visual attention is essential for visual perception. Spatial attention
allows us to grant priority in processing and selectively process
information at a given location. In this talk, I will present empirical
studies:

(1) investigating how endogenous (voluntary) and exogenous (involuntary)
covert attention improve contrast sensitivity at attended locations and
have concurrent costs at unattended locations;

(2) testing predictions of a normalization model of attention; (3)

How do children learn to read? How do deficits in various components of the reading network affect learning outcomes? How does remediating one or several components change reading performance? In this talk, I will quickly summarize what we know about how children learn to read. I will then present the first full-blown developmentally plausible computational model of reading acquisition. The model will be used to understand normal and impaired reading development (dyslexia).