• Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision
• COGAIN2008: Communication, Environment and Mobility Control by Gaze
• PICS 08: July 14 - 17
• Website down time: 28th March 2008
• VSS Young Investigator Award: David Whitney
• Neural Information Processing in the Visual System: 2 Day Symposium!
• Computational Neuroscience: Vision Summer Course
• Professor E. N. Yustova passes, February 08.
• CRS to sponsor OSA Tillyer Prize winner Brian Wandell!
• Summer Computational Workshop
• RIT "Essentials of Color Science" Short Course, June 2008
• RIKEN 2008 Summer Program - 29th February deadline for applications!
• European Visual Neuroscience Summer School - 31st March deadling for applications!
• Newton Medal Lecture to be given by Prof Roy Berns
• CRS raise money for Deafblind UK with a Christmas Prize Draw!
• 2008 Troland Awards: Miguel Eckstein and Isabel Gauthier
• ICO Prize Winner goes to a Vision Scientist - CRS Customer Susana Marcos!
• Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program in Vision Science - University of Rochester. Deadline 1st February
• URECA Ocular Motor Study Day - Friday 18th January, Lille, France.
• York CVR Vision Science Summer School - deadline 1st February
• Nature put entire archive online
• Wolfgang Drexler, 2007 Cogan Award Winner - paper released.
• Happy New Year from CRS!

A celebration of the classic paper by Fergus Campbell and CRS co-founder John Robson to be held Wednesday the 16th April, Cambridge.

A meeting will be held in Cambridge on the 16th April to mark the fortieth anniversary of the classic paper by Campbell and Robson. A lecture will be given by Prof. Mark Georgeson 5pm in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge to be sponsored by CRS.

Keep your eye on the Research Topics section of our website where we will have the lecture to watch again with slides and audio. Why not sign up to our newsletter and be notified when the talk goes live?

The 4th COGAIN Annual Conference on Communication by Gaze Interaction will be held 2-3 September 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline for paper submission: 31st May.

Eye gaze is often the most effective means of interacting with devices associated with these. Much progress has been made in developing eye tracking systems with a high degree of usability, and in developing systems for text entry using gaze. There are now new approaches to text entry and communication which offer higher input rates than have been previously possible. It is also important to consider enabling communication with mobile devices as well as conventional screen based applications, and to consider also how low cost, less accurate gaze systems can best be utilised. There are now research questions too about how to best to extend the use of gaze and enable users to interact with the local environment and to control mobility devices such as scooters and wheelchairs. A Danish person with motor neuron disease and an experienced user of gaze communication devices said recently "One of the future challenges should be to make a computer so that you can drive the wheelchair (safely!) using only an eye tracker". Gaze control has the potential to make really significant improvements to the quality of life of people with severe motor impairments.

The COGAIN conferences are the major international events which focus particularly on gaze communication for people with disabilities. Now in its 4th year, COGAIN (COmmunication by GAze INteraction) is a European Union funded research Network of Excellence, which comprises 25 universities, manufacturers and end-user organizations from across the European Union together with partners from across the globe. More information about the COGAIN network can be found at www.cogain.org. The proceedings of COGAIN2005 (Copenhagen), COGAIN2006 (Turin) and COGAIN2007 (Leicester) are available from the site.

Format of the conference and proceedings The public conference will be a two-day event as last year, the first day having themed paper sessions, and the second having user and industry presentations as well as the exhibition of systems. The paper sessions will present short papers and authors of some of these will be invited to produce full papers for a special edition of a journal.

For full submission details visit the COGAIN website by clicking here.

Progress in Colour Studies Conference will be held in July at the University of Glasgow.

Following the success of Progress in Colour Studies 2004, the Department of English Language and Psychology at the University of Glasgow will hold a further conference on colour in 2008. It will take place at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, from Monday 14 July until Thursday 17 July 2008 (both dates inclusive). If there is sufficient demand, they will organize a tour to places of scenic and historic interest on Friday 18th July.

The aim of PICS08 is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussion of recent and ongoing research, presented so as to be accessible to scholars in other disciplines. They welcome proposals for papers from any area of interest, for example vision science, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, biology, philosophy, cartography, art history, etc.

The conference will be held on the University of Glasgow campus, with accommodation in University residences and local hotels.

View the confirmed speakers by clicking here.

For further details and to register visit the PICS 08 Website.

CRSLTD.com will be unavailable for a few hours on the 11th April 2008

Our server will be moving to a new location on Friday 11th April at 10 am, and thus our website will be unavailable for a few hours while this takes place. We aim to be back online as quickly as possible, but please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause you.

David Whitney to receive this prestigious award at the CRS Sponsored Annual Keynote of the Vision Sciences Society.

Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics to hold a two day symposium on Computational Vision and Neuroscience

To promote the interchange of ideas about principles of neural information processing in the visual system the Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen are organizing a two-day symposium on April 7 and 8. It will start on Monday at 2 p.m. with a welcome reception and the official program ends on Tuesday with lunch. The time after lunch is free for discussions. Confirmed speakers are:

Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis University)
Eero Simoncelli (New York University (NYU))
Jonathan Victor (Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY)
Fred Wolf (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen)
Eberhart Zrenner (University Eye Hospital Tuebingen)

In addition to the talks there will also be a poster session with an award for the best student poster.

Places are limited, so click here to visit the Computational Vision and Neuroscience Symposium website for more information and to register.

Click here to view the Poster with more information.

This course is one of the longest running and most successful courses at Cold Spring Laboratory. It is offered only every two years and gives 24 international advanced graduate students and postdocs the chance for intensive interchange with a diverse faculty in a very stimulating environment.

Application deadline: March 15, 2008-03-14
Dates: June 20 – July 3

The goal of the course is to introduce its students to the processing of visual information as a model for general issues in systems neuroscience. The emphasis is on approaches with strong theoretical bases. Besides talks by an international faculty the course offers plenty of opportunity to interact with the speakers on hands-on projects to apply the knowledge gained on the course.

“Computational approaches to neuroscience will produce important advances in our understanding of neural processing. Prominent success will come in areas where strong inputs from neurobiological, behavioral and computational investigation can interact. The theme of the course is that an understanding of the computational problems, the constraints on solutions to these problems, and the range of possible solutions can help guide research in neuroscience. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on experience in a computer laboratory, this intensive course will examine color vision, spatial pattern analysis, motion analysis, oculomotor function, attention, and decision-making.”

The course will be held at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Banbury Conference Center located on the north shore of Long Island, USA. All participants stay within walking distance of the Center, close to tennis court, pool and private beach.

For more information and to apply visit the CSH website by clicking here.

RESEARCH TOPIC!

The last course featured lectures from many well renowned scientists, including Professor Larry Abbott, who recently gave a CRS sponsored talk “The Interaction of Evoked and Spontaneous Activity in Visual Processing”. Watch the presentation again with slides and audio by clicking here!

Professor Elizaveta Nikolaevna Yustova, one of the last links to the early days of visual science,passed away on 15th February, aged 97.

Professor Elizaveta Nikolaevna Yustova passed away on Friday, February 15th, aged 97. Born in 1910, she was one of the last links with the early days of visual science in the Soviet Union and with the classical era of colorimetry.

She began her career in the early 1930s as an assistant in the State Optical Institute in St. Petersburg while she was still a student of the Physical Faculty of Leningrad University. During the 1930s and 1940s she measured the colour matching functions of colour-deficient observers. She constructed a corresponding colour space and calculated protan, deutan and tritan confusion points. The results were published in several Russian journals and can be found in Wyszecki & Stiles ‘Color Science'. Later she contributed much to the procedures for measuring colour and colour standards in the USSR.  She developed a standard atlas of colours while working at the State Institute of Metrology in Leningrad.

Among only three Russian scientists, she participated in the famous 1957 Teddington meeting "Visual Problems of Colour" organized by W.S.Stiles and the National Physical Laboratory. She was the only observer to provide a set of colour matching functions on both the NPL instrument and that of N.I. Speranskaya in the State Optical Institute in Leningrad. On the basis of her colour space, Yustova developed colour vision testing plates which were introduced to the scientific community at the Dresden meeting of the International Research Group for Colour Vision Deficiencies (IRGCVD) in 1987 (The group became International Colour Vision Society (ICVS) in 1997).

Her career was celebrated at ECVP2006 in St. Petersburg, where a special symposium in honour of Professor E.N.Yustova was organized: "Colour space: its structure and biological basis".  She attended this symposium and was happy that her work was still remembered and recognized.

CRS will sponsor OSA Tillyer Prize Winner Brain Wandell at the OSA Fall Vision Meeting, October 2008, Rochester New York.

Fall Vision Meeting 2008

The 8th annual Optical Society of America Vision Meeting, sponsored this year by the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester, is a low cost, high quality meeting designed to focus discussion on key issues in vision science. The meeting will be held at the University of Rochester Medical Center on October 24, 25, and 26, 2008. Rochester, located in Western New York, is an internationally recognized center for vision and imaging science and provides a scenic and natural setting for a variety of outdoor activities. Frontiers in Optics, the Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America, will immediately precede the OSA Vision Meeting. CRS are very proud to sponsor Brian Wandell's lecture as winner of the biennial Tillyer Award, click here to find out more about the event.

Edgar D. Tillyer Award

The Tillyer Award was established in 1953 through an endowment from the American Optical Co. It is presented not more than once every two years to a person who has performed distinguished work in the field of vision, including (but not limited to) the optics, physiology, anatomy or psychology of the visual system.

Past winners include John G. Robson, co-founder of Cambridge Research Systems, and John D. Mollon with whom we developed the Cambridge Colour Test.

2008 Winner Brian Wandell

Brian joined the Stanford faculty in 1979 where he is Chair of Psychology and a member, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering and Radiology. His research projects center on how we see, spanning topics from visual disorders, reading development in children, to digital imaging devices and algorithms.

Wandell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1973 with a B.S. in mathematics and psychology.  In 1977, he earned a Ph.D. in social science from the University of California at Irvine.  After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1979.  Professor Wandell was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1984 and became a full professor in 1988. 

Read a full Biographical Sketch of Brian Wandell by clicking here.

Cue combination - Unifying perceptual theory Rauischholzhausen Castle (near Frankfurt, Germany) October 12 - 15, 2008 Application deadline: May 20, 2008

Traditionally, research in robotics, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience and cognitive science follow different goals in the development and application of computational models. The goal of research in the field of artificial intelligence and robotics is to understand and ultimately copy the human brain's ability to quickly decode, efficiently process and represent relevant information. On the other hand, research in the area of computational neuroscience aims to apply computational models to test hypotheses about brain architecture and neural coding of information based on experimental evidence gained through electrophysiology, EEG, fMRI and psychophysics. In between these two extremes lies cognitive science, which aims to provide models of human behavior in cognitive tasks, but often at a more general level that does not map neatly onto specific neural components. Recent work, however, has highlighted the importance of integrating knowledge across all these disciplines.

This conference aims to bring together leading researchers from the fields of computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, robotics and vision to discuss theoretical approaches to modeling human sensory processing and multi-sensory integration. The workshop will focus particularly on applying computational concepts and models to sensory cue integration. Selected participants will be able to present and discuss their own work.

A limited number of spots for advanced graduate students and postdocs are available at the workshop. Preferences will be given to applicants who are applying to present a poster at the workshop.

Participants wishing to attend should submit an application including an abstract of 200 words until May 20, 2008. Room and board expenses at the castle will be paid for all selected participants.

Rochester Institute of Technology will be holding a Summer short course on "Essentials of Color Science" on June 3-6 2008.

Registration has already opened for the Summer course at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory so apply now by visiting their website.

"You are cordially invited to participate in the Munsell Color Science Laboratory Summer Short Course 2008: Essentials of Color Science. This four-day course is made up of a series of 16 distinct sessions delivered by leading experts in the topical areas. The lecture series is designed to form a coherent course that introduces the fundamental concepts of color science, describes various applications, and introduces cutting-edge research areas in color science. Participants will find value in each individual lecture as well as the combined experience of the entire program.

Instructors will be available for informal discussions during the breaks, lunch, and at the end of each day. There will also be one evening reception with an open house, tours of the MCSL facilities, and opportunities to interact with the lab's faculty, staff, and students."

Apply now for places at the European Summer School program "Visual Neuroscience: from spikes to awareness", being held in the grandeur of the Rauischolzhausen Castle, near Frankfurt, Germany.

The summer school will run from the 31st August to the 12th September 2008, but the deadline for applications is the 31st March so apply now to avoid missing out! Click here to be taken to the application form.

Visual neuroscience studies the neural underpinnings of visual function and visual sensation. Its results contribute to our understanding of cognitive brain processes in general and also help to boost the capabilities of technological vision systems. Vision neuroscience involves a wide variety of methods and approaches—computational theory, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, functional imaging, psychophysics, neuropsychology, and others—and illustrates perhaps more clearly than any other area of brain research, the overriding need to combine and coordinate these diverse efforts.

The European Summer School exposes young vision researchers—at the late pre-doctoral or early post-doctoral level—to the principal methods and seminal issues of contemporary visual neuroscience. In addition, it seeks to build a basic fluency in the emerging lingua franca of computational neuroscience. The range of topics is broad, literally from spikes to awareness, and the pace correspondingly brisk. This intensive experience should allow participants take a broader view of, and make more informed decisions about, their future research direction. 

The European Summer School is taught by leading researchers in neurobiology, neuropsychology, psychophysics, and theoretical neuroscience. Two thematically related topics are covered each day, with approximately 3 hours allotted to each (including discussion time). An after-dinner discussion provides an opportunity to contrast and compare the day’s lectures. In addition, students pursue computational and theoretical projects (based on Matlab) during the afternoon, to experiment with key concepts and techniques of computational neuroscience.

The European Summer School meets at idyllic and inspiring Schloss Rauischholzhausen in Hessia, Germany (pictured above). The main selection criterion for participants is the degree of benefit that each applicant can be expected to derive from the course. In addition, the organizers attempt to balance fields, nationalities, and genders among participants. All participants receive stipends and partial travel support.

To find out more about the European Summer School, click here.

Interested in Visual Neuroscience?

CRS supply a range of equipment for use in Visual Neuroscience Research, click here to browse our Product Category.

We are always updating our Research Topic library with Lectures and notes from many well renowned Vision Scientists, click here to explore!

The eminent Newton Medal will be awarded to Prof Roy Berns at the Colour Group Meeting in London on the 5th March.

Prof Roy S Berns of Rochester Institute of Technology, New York will present his lecture entitled "The Use of Colour Science in Art Conservation" as the prestigious Newton Medal Lecture. The award is presented yearly to a distinguished worker in the field of colour science and thsi year, takes place at the Colour Group meeting on Wednesday the 15th March, 2008 in the Oliver Thompson Theatre, City University, London.

The Lecture starts at 2pm, admission is free and everyone is welcome!

Click here to visit the Colour Group Website and read the Lecture Abstract.

Interested in Colour Vision?

CRS supply a range of equipment for use in Colour Vision Research - Click here to find out more!

CRS raised £70 for Deafblind UK with a Chritsmas Prize draw. The top prize of a Sat Nav system went to Shaun Simpson, who commented that "giving is winning".

CRS held a Christmas Prize draw to raise money for Deafblind UK. Using gifts given to the company by various suppliers, including a Satellite Navigation system and Champagne, they raised £70 for the charity.

Deafblind UK is a national charity offering specialist services and human support to deafblind people and those who have progressive sight and hearing lost acquired throughout their lives. Deafblind people have a combined sight and hearing loss, which leads to difficulties in communicating, mobility, and accessing information. Deafblind UK aim to enable deafblind people living with this unique disability to maintain their independence, quality of life, and reduce the isolation that Deafblindness creates.

Shaun Simpson (pictured) from the Broadcast Development Team, won the top prize of a TomTom One XL Sat Nav system. Shaun was pleased with his win, but commented that for him, "giving is winning".

Thanks to all the CRS staff for their support.

Miguel Eckstein, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Isabel Gauthier of Vanderbilt University, have been awarded the 2008 Troland Awards.

The Troland Awards

Two awards, each given to young investigators (age 40 or younger) to recognize unusual achievement and further empirical research in psychology regarding the relationships of consciousness and the physical world. Funds are to be used by the awardee to support his or her research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology, including, for example, the topics of sensation, perception, motivation, emotion, learning, memory, cognition, language, and action.

Miguel Eckstein...

… for sophisticated theoretical analysis and modeling that address fundamental issues in perception and cognition and their application to the practical problems of medical imaging.

Isabel Gauthier...

… for seminal experiments on the role of visual expertise in the recognition of complex objects including faces and for exploration of brain areas activated by this recognition.

Bio

Miguel earned a BS in Physics and Psychology at UC Berkeley, going on to do his PhD in Cognitive Psychology at UCLA. Since then he has worked at Department of Medical Physics and Imaging, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and NASA Ames Research Center before moving to UCSB. He has earned many awards, is on the editorial board of numerous well known journals and has published over 80 articles relating to vision.

Research Interests

Visual processing and attention, perceptual learning, searching in visual scences, visual processing in eye movement and perceptual decisions. He typically studies these areas by comparing human performance to that of the optimal Bayesian observer (typically implemented on a computer). He also studes the visual, cognitive and decision processes by which doctors detect and classify abnormalities in medical images and use computer models to improve the way in which we display medical images so that doctors can do fewer errors in clinical diagnosis.

Bio

Isabel earned her BA at Universite du Quebec a Montreal and went on to do her Ph.D. at Yale University Department of Psychology. She followed on with Postdoctoral Positions with John Gore at Yale and Nancy Kanwisher at MIT.

Research Interests

Isabel is interested in how we perceive and categorize objects and shapes. A lot of work in her lab (Object Perception Lab) revolves around perceptual expertise – defined as becoming very good at making perceptual judgments that started off as being very difficult – and investigates the behavioral and neural changes that occur during is acquisition.

Susana Marcos will be the first ever Vision Scientist to be awarded the prestigious ICO prize. Susana, a new CRS customer, is given the 2007 ICO Prize for her outstanding contributions in the areas of visual optics and biophotonics. Susana will deliver an invited plenary lecture at ICO-21 Triennial Congress of the International Commission for Optics (Sydney, Australia July 7-10, 2008). The article can be found in the ICO Newsletter, January 2008, available electronically.

Susana Marcos - Bio

• Susana Marcos gained her MS (1992) and PhD (1996) in Physics from the University of Salamanca (Spain)
• She carried out her Predoctoral Research at the Instituo de Optica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain in the field of Visual Optics, working on a novel technique to resolve the foveal cones in vivo.
• Susana was Postdoctoral Research Fellow for three years at Stephen A. Burns' lab at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard University.
• She was recipient of a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Human Frontier Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
• She served as the Chair of the Applications of Visual Science Technical Group at the Optical Society of America, and is the President of the Visual Sciences Committee at the Spanish Optical Society and an elected Fellow of the European Optical Society.
• She is a Topical Editor in Vision Research, has been member of the organizing committee in several international meetings and served in panels for several funding agencies and organizations. 

Research                 

                                                       
Currently a Professor of Research (at the Instituto de Optica in Madrid (Spain), she leads several research grants on visual optics and biophotonics, funded by national and international agencies, as well as international companies. She is the director of the Visual Optics and Biophotonics lab, and supervises the work of several Ph.D Students.
She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed publication (with over 1200 citations), and has been invited to lecture in over 100 international conferences and research centers.
Susana Marcos has pioneered research in novel techniques to assess the optical properties of the ocular optics and the human retina.
Her work has been recognized with several national and international awards, including the Adolph Lomb Medal, awarded by the Optical Society of America or the European Young Investigator Award, from EURHORCs-ESF

The ICO Award

ICO has established in 1982 the ICO Prize, to be given each year to an individual who has made a noteworthy contribution to optics, published submitted for publication before he or she has reached the age of 40. The character of the work of successive Prize recipients should preferably alternate between predominantly experimental or technological and predominantly theoretical. The "noteworthy" contribution in optics is measured chiefly by its impact (past or possibly future) on the field of optics generally, opening a subfield or significantly expanding an established subfield in research or technology. The prize consists of a cash award, the Ernst Abbe Medal, a citation and an invited plenary lecture.

The University of Rochester, New York, Centre for Visual Sciences will be holding a 9 week long Summer Research Fellowship Program in Vision Science. The course starts on the 2nd June running through to the 1st August and the deadline for applications is the 1st February.

Undergraduates in their junior year of baccalaureate studies interested in neuroscience, cognitive science artificial intelligence, and biomedical science are invited to join the centre for visual science for a summer of supervised laboratory training. It's a great opportunity for students to get research experience and learn more about vision science.

Applicants will be selected based on academic achievements and an interest in pursuing studies in science. Both US and foreign applications will be accepted.

The fellowship will cover travel expenses for non-local students and provide a stipend of $3462 for a summer of continuous training in a faculty member’s lab. Training will also include an orientation with introductory lectures weekly talks from CVS faculty, laboratory demos, a poster session and CVS picnic at summers’s end.

Rochester, located near Lake Ontario in western New York is an internationally recognised centre for visual and imaging science and provides a scenic and natural setting for a variety of outdoor activities.

Click here to visit the CVS Rochester website.

The URECA have organised a study day on the Ocular Motor System, in conjunction with GDR-Vision and the International Institute Erasme. It takes place on Friday 18th January in Lille, France.

The day has a particular emphasis on Saccade and Pursuit responses and features a host of lectures from well renowned vision scientists, many of which we are proud to say are CRS customers!

Recent research has highlighted the role of non-visual signals and visual control of saccadic and pursuit responses and the complexity of their interactions. The day will provide an opportunity to present some of this research and to discuss key issues regarding the ocular motor system.

Find out more about this event on the URECA website.

Lectures will be given by:

Laurent Petit (GIN, CNRS, Caen) ,  Benoît Girard (LPPA, College de France),  Dirk Kerzel (University of Geneva), Philippe Lefevre (CESAME, Louvain-la-Neuve) ,  Marcus Missal and Coralie de Hemptinne (Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Louvain-la-Neuve) , William Masson (Incm, Marseille), Mark Wexler (LPP, Paris),  Laurent Madelain (Ureca, Lille), Laurent Goffart (Incm, Marseille), Alan Chauvin (Ureca, Lille), Eric Castet (Incm, Marseille), Françoise Vitu-Thibault (Laboratory of Cognitive Psychology, University of Provence),  Laurent Sparrow (Ureca, Lille), Anna Montagnini (Incm, Marseille).

We are always finding new meetings to attend and sponsor - keep an eye on our meetings calender!

Interested in the Ocular Motor System?

Check out our Eye Movement Research area, where we have a whole host of research including recorded lectures and posters.

Find the right tool for your Ocular Motor research in our Eyetracking Category.

The Centre for Vision Research (CVR) at York University in Toronto will hold a one-week, all expenses paid undergraudate summer school on the topic of vision science, during June 1-6, 2008.

The program includes talks by CVR faculty on current research topics in vision science, as well as hands-on projects in CVR laboratories.  The curriculum reflects the wide range of active research areas at CVR, which includes basic research on vision in humans, animals, and machines, as well as applied topics such as virtual reality, visual perception in low-gravity environments, and vision in clinical patients.

The program will accept 20 undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in scientific research.  It is intended mainly for undergraduates who are planning to apply to graduate school in the fall of 2008, and are interested in investigating vision science as a possible area of research.  Both Canadian and international students are encouraged to apply.

This year's speakers and lab coordinators will include professors James Elder, Mazyar Fallah, Laurence Harris, Kari Hoffman, Ian Howard, Michael Jenkin, Richard Murray, Martin Regan, Jennifer Steeves, Laurie Wilcox, and Hugh Wilson.

The program provides on-campus accommodations, breakfast and lunch each day, a closing banquet, and reimbursement for transportation costs.

Application instructions are available on the summer school website. The application deadline is February 1, 2008, and applicants will be notified of decisions by March 1, 2008.

For further information, see the summer school website, or write to Dr. Richard Murray or Dr. Jennifer Steeves.

This program is funded by CIHR, NSERC, and York University.

As part of a five-year online deployment plan, science journal Nature has completed the digitisation of its entire archive.

You can now gain access to more than 4,000 issues and 180,000 articles dating back to volume 1, issue 1 1869 - including: first observation of X-rays (Wilhelm Röntgen, 1896); the discovery of the electron ( J.J. Thomson, 1897); the first fossil evidence that humans originated in Africa (Raymond Dart, 1925); and the discovery of the neutron (James Chadwick, 1932).

To celebrate, Nature is offering web feature The History of the Journal Nature, featuring "timelines, video interviews, and profiles of editors". For a limited period, it's also handing out free selected historical highlights.

We are pleased to see more and more CRS customers publishing in Nature and over the years there have been a great deal of articles that cite CRS equipment, to name a few...

Selective suppression of the magnocellular visual pathway during saccadic eye movements, David C. Burr, M. Concetta Morrone, John Ross, Nature 371, 511 - 513 (06 Oct 1994)

According to the code, Brendan Horton, Nature 385, 749 - 752 (20 Feb 1997)

Compression of visual space before saccades, John Ross, M. Concetta Morrone, David C. Burr, Nature 386, 598 - 601 (10 Apr 1997)

Undercounting features and missing features: evidence for a high-level deficit in strabismic amblyopia, Vineeta Sharma, Dennis M. Levi, Stanley A. Klein, Nature Neuroscience 3, 496 - 501 (01 May 2000)

New for the neurosciences, Nature 407, 1035 - 1036 (26 Oct 2000)

A cortical area that responds specifically to optic flow, revealed by fMRI, M. C. Morrone, M. Tosetti, D. Montanaro, A. Fiorentini, G. Cioni, D. C. Burr, Nature Neuroscience 3, 1322 - 1328 (01 Dec 2000)

Compulsory averaging of crowded orientation signals in human vision, Laura Parkes, Jennifer Lund, Alessandra Angelucci, Joshua A. Solomon, Michael Morgan, Nature Neuroscience 4, 739 - 744 (01 Jul 2001)

Correlated binocular activity guides recovery from monocular deprivation, Peter C. Kind, Donald E. Mitchell, Bashir Ahmed, Colin Blakemore, Tobias Bonhoeffer, Frank Sengpiel, Nature 416, 430 - 433 (28 Mar 2002)

Spatiotemporal mechanisms for detecting and identifying image features in human vision, Peter Neri, David J. Heeger, Nature Neuroscience 5, 812 - 816 (01 Aug 2002)

Color brings relief to human vision, Frederick A A Kingdom, Nature Neuroscience 6, 641 - 644 (01 Jun 2003)

Reorganization of Visual Cortical Maps After Focal Ischemic Lesions, Angelica Zepeda, Luis Vaca, Clorinda Arias, Frank Sengpiel, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 23, 811 - 820 (30 Jun 2003)

Spatiotopic temporal integration of visual motion across saccadic eye movements, David Melcher, M Concetta Morrone, Nature Neuroscience 6, 877 - 881 (01 Aug 2003)

Motion-induced spatial conflict, Derek H. Arnold, Alan Johnston, Nature 425, 181 - 184 (11 Sep 2003)

Saccades actively maintain perceptual continuity, John Ross, Anna Ma-Wyatt, Nature Neuroscience 7, 65 - 69 (01 Jan 2004)

Imaging cortical correlates of illusion in early visual cortex, Dirk Jancke, Frederic Chavane, Shmuel Naaman, Amiram Grinvald, Nature 428, 423 - 426 (25 Mar 2004)

Perceptual learning and top-down influences in primary visual cortex, Wu Li, Valentin Piech, Charles D Gilbert, Nature Neuroscience 7, 651 - 657 (01 Jun 2004) Click here to read more about this publication in CRS Research Topics

Dynamics of motion signaling by neurons in macaque area MT, Matthew A Smith, Najib J Majaj, J Anthony Movshon, Nature Neuroscience 8, 220 - 228 (01 Feb 2005)

Melanopsin-expressing ganglion cells in primate retina signal colour and irradiance and project to the LGN, Dennis M. Dacey, Hsi-Wen Liao, Beth B. Peterson, Farrel R. Robinson, Vivianne C. Smith, Joel Pokorny, King-Wai Yau, Paul D. Gamlin

Meaningful interactions can enhance visual discrimination of human agents, Peter Neri, Jennifer Y Luu, Dennis M Levi, Nature Neuroscience 9, 1186 - 1192 (01 Sep 2006)

Professor Drexler, Cardiff University, School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, received the 2007 Cogan Award for his role in the development of the Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) technique leading to spectacular applications in the diagnosis of retinal disease, and elsewhere in the eye, and its combination with adaptive optics, allowing evaluation of the structure and function of the retina on a microscopic scale. Professor Drexler’s 2007 Lecture has just been released in the IOVS Journal (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science).

Read about Professor Drexler's groundbreaking research here:

Drexler, W., (2007) Cellular and Functional Optical Coherence Tomography of the Human Retina, The Cogan Lecture Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 48:12 pp 5340-5351

Professor Wolfgang Drexler, PhD - Biography

• 1984 - 1991: Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Vienna, Austria (1991: Master of Science; 1995: PhD)
• 1991 - 2000: Assistant Professor, Institute of Medical Physics, University Vienna 1998 - 1999: Research Associate @ MIT, Cambridge, USA
• 2000 - 2006: Associate Professor of Medical Physics, Centre for Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Medical University Vienna
• 2001: Austrian START Award from the Austrian Science Fund FWF (most prestigious Austrian research award of ~ € 1.100.000,-- for scientists under 35 years of age)
• 2002 - 2006: Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Laser Development and their Application in Medicine
• 2006: Full Professor of Biomedical Imaging at Cardiff University, Wales, UK
• 2007: COGAN Award from the American Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology for important contributions to research in ophthalmology and visual science.

Read a full introduction to Professor Drexler and his work, given by Dr Joel S. Schuman:

Schuman, J. (2007) Introducing Wolfgang Drexler, the 2007 Recipient of the Cogan Award Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 48:12 p5339

What is the Cogan Award?

The Cogan Award was established to commemorate the outstanding leadership of David G. Cogan, MD,  and is intended to recognize a young researcher who is 40 years of age or younger at the time of nomination. First presented in 1988, the Cogan Award is bestowed upon an individual who has made important  and worthwhile contributions to research in ophthalmology or visual science that are directly related to disorders of the human eye or visual system, and who show substantial promise for the future.  The recipient presents the Cogan Lecture at the ARVO Annual Meeting and receives a plaque, complimentary registration, travel, hotel and per diem.  The recipient is also presented with a bronze bust of David Cogan, sculpted by ARVO member Ephraim Friedman, supported by Steven E. Wilson, MD, through the ARVO Foundation.

Past and Future Winners

2005 J. William Harbour, M.D, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis … for his significant contributions to the understanding of the molecular regulation of the cell cycle in ocular tumors.

2006 Joshua L. Dunaief, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine … for his innovative investigations of iron metabolism and oxidative damage in the pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration, including contributions from both human tissues and mouse models of the disease.

2007 – Wolfgang Drexler, PhD, Cardiff University, School of Optometry and Vision Sciences...

2008 – Michael A. Dyer, PhD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital... For his significant and innovative contributions to the fields of developmental neurobiology, cell cycle regulation, and cancer genetics. Award and lecture to be presented at ARVO 2008.

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