VISION, BRAIN, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITION
Friday, March 17, 1995
Boston University
George Sherman Union
Conference Auditorium, Second Floor
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems,
the Center for Adaptive Systems, and the Center for Philosophy
and History of Science
Program:
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8:30am--9:30am: KEN NAKAYAMA, Harvard University,
Visual perception of surfaces
9:30am--10:30am: RUDIGER VON DER HEYDT, Johns Hopkins University,
How does the visual cortex represent surface and contour?
10:30am--11:00am: Coffee Break
11:00am--12:00pm: STEPHEN GROSSBERG, Boston University,
Cortical dynamics of visual perception
12:00pm--1:00pm: PATRICK CAVANAGH, Harvard University,
Attention-based visual processes
1:00pm--2:30pm: Lunch
2:30pm--3:30pm: V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, University of California,
Neural plasticity in the adult human brain: New directions of research
3:30pm--4:30pm: EVAN THOMPSON, Boston University,
Phenomenology and computational vision
4:30pm--5:30pm: DANIEL DENNETT, Tufts University,
Filling-in revisited
5:30pm---: Discussion
Registration:
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The conference is free and open to the public.
Parking:
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Parking is available at nearby campus lots: 808 Commonwealth Avenue
($6 per vehicle), 766 Commonwealth Avenue ($8 per vehicle), and 700
Commonwealth Avenue ($10 per vehicle). If these lots are full, please
ask the lot attendant for an alternate location.
Contact:
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Professor Stephen Grossberg
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
111 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215
fax: (617) 353-7755
email: diana@cns.bu.edu