From Elisa.Zamboni at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Sep 15 15:45:56 2016 From: Elisa.Zamboni at nottingham.ac.uk (Elisa Zamboni) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:45:56 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] rescheduled talk by Prof. David Walker In-Reply-To: <2FDA803A-AA7F-4449-800B-C87B6BA11B1A@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> References: <2FDA803A-AA7F-4449-800B-C87B6BA11B1A@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Timothy.Ledgeway at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Sep 16 09:19:50 2016 From: Timothy.Ledgeway at nottingham.ac.uk (Timothy Ledgeway) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:19:50 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Re: rescheduled talk by Prof. David Walker Message-ID: Hi Elisa, October 27th would be best as some of us (me, Paul and Alan) will be teaching lectures from 3-5pm on Thursday afternoon this term, but that should be finished by October 27th, TIm ------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Timothy Ledgeway Chair of Vision Research School of Psychology University of Nottingham Tel: +44 (0) 115 846 7343 Fax: +44 (0) 115 951 5324 http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/vision/txl/home.html From: > on behalf of Elisa Zamboni > Date: Thursday, 15 September 2016 15:45 To: "psychology-visionlist at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" > Subject: [psychology-visionlist] rescheduled talk by Prof. David Walker Hi everyone, unfortunately Prof. David Walker is no longer available on the 29th of September for his talk on brain tumours affecting sight in child development. Could you please let me know which of the following two dates suit most of you best? October, 6th 4-5PM October, 27th 4-5PM I need to confirm the date tomorrow (Friday) with his assistant so please let me know asap. Thank you very much for your help! Elisa The face has the only skeletal muscles of the body that are used, not to move ourselves, but to move others. On 18 Aug 2016, at 09:53, Elisa Zamboni > wrote: Hi everyone, we have a potential talk by Prof. David Walker (Prof. of Paediatric Oncology at QMC) on brain tumours affecting sight in child development lined up for Thursday, 29th September 4 to 5 PM. Could you please let me know if this works for most of you so I can get in touch with his assistant and fix the date? Thank you very much. Best, Elisa PS: On a slightly different note, Craig will be taking over in arranging meetings from September / October (depending on when he gets his new email address) onwards, so you'll have to get in touch with him for future talks / time slots. _______________________________________________ Psychology-visionlist mailing list Psychology-visionlist at lists.nottingham.ac.uk http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/psychology-visionlist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Elisa.Zamboni at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Sep 16 09:58:25 2016 From: Elisa.Zamboni at nottingham.ac.uk (Elisa Zamboni) Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:58:25 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Re: rescheduled talk by Prof. David Walker In-Reply-To: References: <2FDA803A-AA7F-4449-800B-C87B6BA11B1A@exmail.nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Sep 20 14:23:38 2016 From: lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk (Craig Scott) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:23:38 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Rearranging vision group talks Message-ID: Hi all, I will be taking over from Elisa in organising the vision group talks this year. I believe that our regular session on a Thursday is going to have to change. To give me an idea on when to rearrange this session, could you let me know what time and day is suitable for you? As a suggestion we could: * Keep our usual time (4-5PM) and rearrange to either a Monday, Tuesday or Friday. * Move to a lunch time session (1-2PM?). Once I get a sense on what is best for everyone I will prepare a calender. Hope you are all well and to hear back from you soon. All the best Craig P.s. Elisa you will be missed, especially as I am not good at baking! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Markus.Bauer at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Sep 20 15:03:40 2016 From: Markus.Bauer at nottingham.ac.uk (Markus Bauer) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:03:40 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Re: Rearranging vision group talks In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, I would propose to stick to the usual time. More regular meetings where more journal articles - especially those that appeal to a wider audience, e.g. major new streams - are presented would also be a good idea. It is almost certainly also a good training for PhD students and others. bw Markus From: psychology-visionlist-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:psychology-visionlist-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Craig Scott Sent: 20 September 2016 14:24 To: psychology-visionlist at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Rearranging vision group talks Hi all, I will be taking over from Elisa in organising the vision group talks this year. I believe that our regular session on a Thursday is going to have to change. To give me an idea on when to rearrange this session, could you let me know what time and day is suitable for you? As a suggestion we could: * Keep our usual time (4-5PM) and rearrange to either a Monday, Tuesday or Friday. * Move to a lunch time session (1-2PM?). Once I get a sense on what is best for everyone I will prepare a calender. Hope you are all well and to hear back from you soon. All the best Craig P.s. Elisa you will be missed, especially as I am not good at baking! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Sep 26 11:17:11 2016 From: lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk (Craig Scott) Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:17:11 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Vision Group Meetings continue on Thursdays 4-5PM Message-ID: Hi all, Thanks to everyone who got back to me regarding changing the time for our vision group meetings. Based on your responses it seems that our usual time on a Thursday 4-5PM is actually still suitable for the majority. Therefore, our meetings will continue to take place at this time. I have now set up a doodle poll which can be accessed here: http://doodle.com/poll/4vsw38d6i3frpi47. If you know when you would like to present this semester please enter your name next to an available slot. I will then email you for further details about your topic. This will be used in reminder emails and to update a more detailed calendar/spreadsheet so everyone can see the presenters in the weeks ahead. We have a few new faces joining our group next month, so I will organise a get together so we can all meet. Best wishes, Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk Wed Sep 28 22:22:55 2016 From: lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk (Craig Scott) Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:22:55 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] External Talk - Thurs 6th Oct Message-ID: Hi all, Dr Mark Schira, from the University of Wollongong (Australia), will be giving a talk at the Sir Peter Mansfield Centre at 1PM next Thursday the 6th Oct. He will be presenting his work on: Natural images, fractal distributions and modeling fMRI in early visual cortex In the last couple of years the basis for modeling fMRI measurements in early visual cortex have come together. Accurate algebraic models of the retinocotical projection and sophisticated spatiotemporal BOLD modeling have provided the corner stones to generate concrete predictions of BOLD responses in time and cortical space. However, the effects of cortical visual processing on BOLD amplitude is still rather crudely understood, barely beyond a crude contrast to BOLD amplitude function. We have investigated the effect that frequency and fractal distributions have on cortical BOLD responses. It is well known that natural images share a specific frequency distribution often simplified referred to as 1/f distribution. This describes the observation that in natural images, spatial frequencies are not equally frequent, as they are for example in white noise. Instead, there is high energy at low spatial frequencies and less energy at higher spatial frequency, where the distribution roughly falls on a line, with typical slope between -0.75 and -1.25. What is less known is if and how responses in visual cortex are adapted to this property of our environment. It is also less known that the fractal properties of natural scenes are even more stable. We tested the responses in early visual cortex using filtered and thresholded natural noise images, manipulating the slope of the 1/f distribution and the fractal dimension D (Mandelbrot 1982). We found that early visual cortex responds maximally to naturalistic noise images specifically to it's fractal dimension. We found that frequency distribution and fractal dimension determine the BOLD response as strongly as contrast. Mark will also be visiting the School of Psychology on Wednesday the 5th Oct, and would be happy to meet people within our group perhaps over lunch. Should you wish to contact him his email is mark.schira at gmail.com. Best Wishes Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: