Fall 2016

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1	VisCog Fall 2016 – Mondays 1:30-3:00pm – Wean Hall 4625
2	* Room subject to change
3	Date	Presenter(s)	Topic	Paper(s)	Links
4	29 Aug	All interested parties		Data blitz
5	5 Sep	Labor Day
6	12 Sep	Amanda Robinson	Discussion paper	Neural, electrophysiological and anatomical basis of brain-network variability and its characteristic changes in mental disorders	http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/139/8/2307.abstract?etoc
7	19 Sep	John Pyles	Discussion of Saygin Connectivity Paper	Connectivity precedes function in the development of the visual word form area.	http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v19/n9/full/nn.4354.html
8	26 Sep	Marlene Behrmann	discussion of evolutionary approaches	chapter from Kaas book
9	3 Oct	Rosh Hashanah				The brain imaging data structure, a format for organizing and describing outputs of neuroimaging experiments	http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201644
10	10 Oct	Ana Van Gulick	Effect sizes in Cognitive Neuroscience and BIDS data format for fMRI	Empirical assessment of published effect sizes and power in the recent cognitive neuroscience and psychology literature	http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/25/071530
11	17 Oct	Ben Hayden	A distributed framework for economic choice and executive control
12	24 Oct	Elliot Collins	TBD
13	31 Oct	Tina Liu	Maybe Kevin Weiner JON paper	The Face-Processing Network Is Resilient to Focal Resection of Human Visual Cortex
14	7 Nov	Yuan Wang	TBD
15	14 Nov	SfN
16	21 Nov	Masataka Nakayama	Problems of serial order in language (my privious work)
17	28 Nov
18	5 Dec	Adam Harley	improving computer vision	Segmentation-Aware Convolutional Nets (my work)	https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B37FFJE7o45TdW82VjBSNTBCMzQ/view?usp=sharing
19	12 Dec	David Plaut	Predictive coding and integrating top-down and bottom-up information	Blank and Davis (2016): Prediction Errors but Not Sharpened Signals Simulate Multivoxel fMRI Patterns during Speech Perception	https://cmu.box.com/s/ysrvdf3t2x29uk1fpavtafq2md79cr3v
20				(opt: Whittington and Bogacza (2015): Learning in cortical networks through error back-propagation.)	https://cmu.box.com/s/pdzx83f41ecwjl73w19xrmfmg07uxo94
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