From Richard.Johnston at nottingham.ac.uk Thu Feb 2 12:17:43 2017 From: Richard.Johnston at nottingham.ac.uk (Richard Johnston) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 12:17:43 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Six Nations Sweep Stake Message-ID: <6E80DEEF-DF4B-4186-8A15-13EEF6BBFDD5@nottingham.ac.uk> Dear all, The Six Nations kicks off this weekend and I have volunteered to coordinate the annual sweep stake. If you would like to participate, please email me your predictions and pay me ?10 before the first match kicks off this Saturday at 14:25. The rules are simple... Each team will play the other five once, and the team with the most points will take the glory. It will cost you ?10 to participate in the sweep stake. Prior to the first match each weekend, you will need to send me your predictions of who will win the three upcoming matches. A single point is awarded for each correct prediction and the person with the most points at the end of championship will win the cash pot. I should mention that a ?10 prize will be given to the person finishing last, which leaves open the possibility of getting your stake back if you fall a long way behind the leaders. Ben has always stressed that you do not need to know anything about Rugby Union to take part in the sweep stake and based on past winners I would certainly echo these comments. Best wishes, Richard ---------------------------------------------- Richard Johnston PhD Student Visual Neuroscience Group Room C68 School of Psychology The University of Nottingham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.Johnston at nottingham.ac.uk Fri Feb 3 13:53:40 2017 From: Richard.Johnston at nottingham.ac.uk (Richard Johnston) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 13:53:40 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Reminder: Six Nations Sweep Stake Message-ID: <90F0B247-741D-4FF1-B8F0-EDD598E8745E@nottingham.ac.uk> Dear all, The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is growing increasingly larger by the hour. A reminder that if you want to take part in our annual Six Nations Sweep Stake then I will need to have received ?10 from you along with your predictions for this weekends games by 14:25 tomorrow. This will mark the beginning of Rugby's Greatest Championship. Hoping to see a few more ?10 notes coming my way (room C68) this afternoon. Richard ---------------------------------------------- Richard Johnston PhD Student Visual Neuroscience Group Room C68 School of Psychology The University of Nottingham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Denis.Schluppeck at nottingham.ac.uk Mon Feb 20 12:14:35 2017 From: Denis.Schluppeck at nottingham.ac.uk (Denis Schluppeck) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 12:14:35 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Fwd: [Maths-CMMB] [reminder] CMMB seminar 21 February - James Rankin References: <01915970-50bc-b2fc-3e2b-d57223cfc4d7@nottingham.ac.uk> Message-ID: Dear all, ? the following talk about Pattern formation in a neural field model of visual cortex might be of interest to some of you. I would have gone, but have to be at Psych for MSc teaching? Best Denis .. Denis Schluppeck denis.schluppeck at nottingham.ac.uk Begin forwarded message: From: Etienne Farcot > Subject: [Maths-CMMB] [reminder] CMMB seminar 21 February - James Rankin Date: 20 February 2017 at 11:51:38 GMT To: "maths-seminars-announce at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" >, CMMB list > Dear all, Tomorrow for the CMMB seminar we will have the pleasure of receiving James Rankin, from the University of Exeter. The seminar will be at 2pm in room Physics-B21, University Park. Pattern formation in a neural field model of visual cortex We study localised states in the neural field equation (NFE) posed on the Euclidean plane. The resulting nonlocal integro-differential equation has been widely used to model the mean firing rates of neurons across a spatially continuous domain. Primary visual cortex features a quasiperiodic orientation preference map with a regular length scale. Voltage imaging experiments have shown that local, oriented visual stimuli elicit activation that is orientation-selective and patchy within the stimulus footprint but non-selective outside the footprint. We study the dynamics of these input-driven states in a model with a biologically-motivated radial connectivity profile and sub-populations encoding different orientations. We argue that the observed patchy cortical activation patterns are pre-encoded by the connectivity profile and that the orientation preference map fixes the spatial phase of such patterns. Let us know if you would like to meet the speaker in person. Best wishes, Etienne and Bindi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 21 12:34:50 2017 From: lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk (Craig Scott) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 12:34:50 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Vision Meeting this Thursday Message-ID: Dear all, This Thursday (23rd) we have Dr Scholes presenting some research entitled: The striking fluctuation of visual sensitivity during fixation Talk will be in room A28, hope to see you there at 16:00. Best wishes Craig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk Tue Feb 21 13:05:29 2017 From: lpxcs10 at nottingham.ac.uk (Craig Scott) Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:05:29 +0000 Subject: [psychology-visionlist] CMMB seminar 2PM Physics B21 - happening soon In-Reply-To: References: <01915970-50bc-b2fc-3e2b-d57223cfc4d7@nottingham.ac.uk>, Message-ID: ________________________________ From: psychology-visionlist-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Denis Schluppeck Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 12:14 PM To: psychology-visionlist at lists.nottingham.ac.uk Subject: [psychology-visionlist] Fwd: [Maths-CMMB] [reminder] CMMB seminar 21 February - James Rankin Dear all, ? the following talk about Pattern formation in a neural field model of visual cortex might be of interest to some of you. I would have gone, but have to be at Psych for MSc teaching? Best Denis .. Denis Schluppeck denis.schluppeck at nottingham.ac.uk Begin forwarded message: From: Etienne Farcot > Subject: [Maths-CMMB] [reminder] CMMB seminar 21 February - James Rankin Date: 20 February 2017 at 11:51:38 GMT To: "maths-seminars-announce at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" >, CMMB list > Dear all, Tomorrow for the CMMB seminar we will have the pleasure of receiving James Rankin, from the University of Exeter. The seminar will be at 2pm in room Physics-B21, University Park. Pattern formation in a neural field model of visual cortex We study localised states in the neural field equation (NFE) posed on the Euclidean plane. The resulting nonlocal integro-differential equation has been widely used to model the mean firing rates of neurons across a spatially continuous domain. Primary visual cortex features a quasiperiodic orientation preference map with a regular length scale. Voltage imaging experiments have shown that local, oriented visual stimuli elicit activation that is orientation-selective and patchy within the stimulus footprint but non-selective outside the footprint. We study the dynamics of these input-driven states in a model with a biologically-motivated radial connectivity profile and sub-populations encoding different orientations. We argue that the observed patchy cortical activation patterns are pre-encoded by the connectivity profile and that the orientation preference map fixes the spatial phase of such patterns. Let us know if you would like to meet the speaker in person. Best wishes, Etienne and Bindi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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