Craik Club


2006-01-11 13:00: Moving Colours (Annette Werner, Centre for Vision, University of Tbingen)

2006-01-24 13:00: Bees' colour vision: lessons from understanding visual capabilities and cognition possible with the mini brain. (Adrian Dyer)

2006-02-07 13:00: The Trefethen Effect (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2006-02-23 13:00: Do frogs smell under water? The role of Na+-Ca2+ exchanger in amphibia olfactory receptor neurons (Salome Antolin, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge)

2006-03-16 13:00: Colour responses in the human LGN and visual cortex measured with fMRI (Kathy Mullen, McGill Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology, McGill University)

2006-03-21 13:00: Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes (Alexandre Pouget, University of Rochester)

2006-04-04 13:00: On the Neural Machinery for Face Processing (Winrich Freiwald, Centers for Advanced Imaging & Cognitive Sciences, Bremen University; Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School)

2006-05-24 13:00: Learning and recall of  visuomotor transformations (John Krakauer, Columbia University)

2006-05-30 13:00: Perception of pitch by normally hearing and hearing-impaired people (Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)

2006-07-03 13:00: Absolute Pitch: Genetics & Perception (Jane Gitschier, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of California, San Francisco)

2006-07-07 13:00: Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic (Bruno Laeng, Department of Psychology, University of Tromso)

2006-08-16 13:00: Dark adaptation of human retinal rod bipolar cells (Trevor Lamb, Division of Neuroscience JCSMR, and ARC Centre of Excellence in Vision Science, Australian National University, Canberra)

2006-10-24 13:00: The Hungry Eye: energy, information and retinal function (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-13 13:00: Is the code in ferret V1 a 'sparse code'? (David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-17 13:00: Watching brain circuitry in action: two-photon imaging of neural activity (Simon R. Schultz, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London)

2006-12-01 13:00: Sensorimotor and perceptual representations engaged when performing and observing object manipulation tasks (Randy Flanagan, Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Canada)

2006-12-12 13:00: Motion Perception -  from visual arts to neural processing (Johannes M. Zanker, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London)

2006-12-14 17:00: Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect (Jon Driver, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2006-12-15 13:00: A neural mechanism for decision-making, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bound (Michael Shadlen, Physiology and Biophysics Department, University of Washington)

2007-02-13 13:00: Biophysics of wiring the brain (Aldo Faisal, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-23 13:00: The concatenation of factors of change in perception (Donald MacLeod, UCSD)

2007-03-19 13:00: Date and Title to be confirmed (Stephen Scott, Queen's University, Canada)

2007-04-04 11:00: Colour Vision Meeting (Speakers include: R. A. Weale, D. van Norren, J. Bowmaker, H. Cooper, G. Jordan, H. Smithson, J. Barbur and D. Tolhurst)

2007-04-12 13:00: Variational free energy and the brain (Karl Friston, UCL)

2007-04-24 13:00: Visual discrimination of interacting human agents (Peter Neri, City University, London)

2007-04-27 13:00: On the task-dependency and flexibility of bimanual coordination (Jörn Diedrichsen, University of Wales, Bangor)

2007-05-10 13:00: The ageing eye - Lifestyle vs Genes (Ruth Hogg, University of Melbourne)

2007-05-22 13:00: Illusory multisensory interactions in synaesthesia (Gary Bargary, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Dublin)

2007-06-05 13:00: How do we perceive motion direction? (Linda Bowns, Nottingham Visual Neuroscience, School of Psychology)

2007-06-07 13:00: The effect of color and motion changes on attentional capture (Adrian von Mühlenen, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick)

2007-06-26 13:00: Decoding consciousness (Geraint Rees, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London)

2007-07-03 13:00: Uncomfortable images and spatial periodicity in nature, in art, and in text (Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2007-12-07 13:00: The machinery of colour vision (Professor P. Lennie)

2008-01-10 13:00: Normalizing colour vision (Michael A. Webster, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada)

2008-02-21 13:00: Tracking, Memory, and Dynamic Icons (Dr. Srimant P. Tripathy, Department of Optometry, University of Bradford)

2008-02-26 13:00: Modelling motion from 1888 to 2008:  How far have we come? (Dr. Peter Thompson, University of York)

2008-04-16 17:00:  Four decades of spatial frequency channels: a scale-space view of spatial vision (Professor Mark Georgeson)

2008-05-06 13:00: Spatial vision in the periphery (Professor Roger Anderson, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology)

2008-05-21 13:00: The importance of cortical and subcortical visual pathways for attention and eye movements (Dr. Petroc Sumner, Cardiff University)

2008-06-25 13:00: Grandmother cells in the human brain? (Professor Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester)

2008-06-26 13:00: Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging (Scott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara)

2008-07-15 13:00: The influence of expectation on deciding where to look next (Dr. Andrew Anderson, University of Melbourne)

2008-07-16 13:00: A Computational Theory of Visual Attention to Time, Space, and Features (George Sperling, University of California, Irvine)

2008-07-17 13:00: "The Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye" (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University)

2008-10-23 13:00: Recent developments in the chemical senses:  a tutorial for visual and auditory scientists (Professor Barry Keverne, Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Dept of Zoology, Cambridge)

2008-11-27 13:00: Going with the flow:  Visually guided flight and navigation in honeybees (Professor Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Queensland Brain Institute)

2009-01-06 13:00: The Perception of Colour Seen in Context (Dr Steve Shevell, University of Chicago)

2009-01-12 13:00: What do the Colour-Blind see? -- And if it's more than we thought, how do they do it? (Dr Justin Broackes, Department of Philosophy, Brown University)

2009-01-19 13:00: Perception, action and uncertainty (Prof. Laurence Maloney, Department of Psychology, NYU)

2009-03-06 13:00: The neural code and knowledge representation: a bridge too far? (Dr Peter Foldiak, St Andrews University)

2009-03-17 13:00: Statistically optimal inference and learning: from behavior to neural representations (Professor József Fiser, Brandeis University)

2009-03-30 13:00: What reflected light tells the eye about the content of the world (Prof. David H. Foster, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester)

2009-04-30 13:00: Living optical elements in the vertebrate retina (Dr. Jochen Guck (Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2009-05-13 13:00: Bird vision and egg mimicry by cuckoos (Dr. Martin Stevens, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)

2009-10-16 13:00: Russian Blues: Effects of Language Categories on Colour Discrimination (Professor Galina Paramei, Hope University)

2009-11-19 13:00: Colour vision across the life span: perception and brain imaging (Dr. Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool)

2009-11-25 13:00: Fate determination of retinal neurons: Lineage relationships and the inhibitory master switch Ptf1a (Dr. Patricia Jusuf)

2009-11-27 13:00: Experimental tests of the theory that V1 creates a bottom-up visual saliency map for attentional guidance (Professor Zhaoping Li, Computer Science, UCL)

2009-12-04 13:00: The effect of contextual motion on perceived speed, plaid direction and binocular rivalry (Dr. Daniel H. Baker, Aston University)

2010-02-24 13:00: “Dependence of visual evoked potentials on discrimination task difficulty and stimulus presentation time” (Tatiana Selchenkova, I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology, St. Petersburg)

2010-05-26 13:00: Credit Assignment, State Representations, & Time Scales in Motor Learning (Prof. Maurice Smith, Harvard University)

2011-01-18 13:00: 'Arctic reindeer and their adaptation to extreme changes in environmental light' (Professor Glen Jeffery, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL)

2011-02-11 13:00: Conserved principles of movement generation (Mark Churchland, Stanford University)

2011-02-18 13:00: Brief temporal buffering of successive visual inputs (Dr Hannah Smithson, University of Durham)

2011-03-25 17:00: 'The locus of the neural mechanism underlying the Craik Effect' (Professor Steve Shevell)

2011-05-04 13:00: Navigational guidance systems in the human brain (Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience)

2011-05-19 13:00: Understanding and optimizing human motor learning (Dr. Amy Bastian, John Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute)

2011-05-23 13:00: The effects of early visual deprivation (Dr Ione Fine, University of Washington)

2011-05-27 13:00: Visual cortical architecture and subjective perception (Dr. Sam Schwarzkopf, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neural Imaging)

2011-05-31 13:00: Decision-making computations within prefrontal cortex: so many interesting neuronal signals but how do we make sense of them? (Dr. Steve Kennerley, UCL, Institute of Neurology)

2011-09-12 13:00: Drawing in reverse perspective, ancient and modern (Professor Ian Howard, Centre for Vision Research, York University, Toronto)

2011-10-05 13:00: The Problem with Colour (Dr. Simon J. Cropper, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne)

2011-10-25 13:00: Seeing in the dark:  single-photon signals in the retina (Professor John Robson, Gonville and Caius College)

2011-10-31 13:00: Which psychophysical colour vision test to use for screening in 3-9 year olds? (Dr Manca Tekavčič Pompe)

2011-11-18 13:00: How do context and attention affect S-cone signals in human V1? (Professor Alex Wade, University of York)

2011-12-09 17:00: A musical gift for Horace Barlow on his ninetieth birthday (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-01-11 10:00: One-day meeting on visual perception in memory of Professor C. R. Cavonius ( G. Jordan, J. D. Mollon,  M.J. Morgan, G. Paramei, A. Reeves, T. van den Berg.)

2012-01-17 13:00: Colour Categories in Language and Thought (Dr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex)

2012-03-09 13:00: "Genetic correlates of visual biases" (Patrick Goodbourn, Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University)

2012-04-30 13:00: "Visual crowding: Basic mechanisms and abnormalities associated with schizophrenia " (Professor Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, London)

2012-05-01 13:00: "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli" (Eero Simoncelli, New York University)

2012-05-25 13:00: Perceptual learning: Improving letter recognition and reading speed (Dr Susana Chung, School of Optometry, UC Berkeley)

2012-06-19 13:00: A new look at human motor control (Dr. Dana Ballard, University of Texas at Austin)

2012-06-21 13:00: The wonder of hue:  the non-monotonic contribution of S-cones to blueness (Sungmi Oh, Joshibi University, Japan)

2012-06-26 13:00: A new look at gating: selective integration of sensory signals through network dynamics (Professor Bill Newsome, Stanford)

2012-06-28 13:00: Vision for reading (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2012-07-25 13:00: Perception of motion blur during eye movement (Professor Harold Bedell, University of Houston College of Optometry)

2012-10-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2012-11-01 13:00: How many cortical weighting functions does your brain use to see? (Denis Pelli (NYU), Horace Barlow (Cambridge), Martin Barlow (UBC))

2013-01-07 13:00: Individual differences in human perception (Dr. Jeremy Wilmer, Wellesley College, MA)

2013-01-14 13:00: Disturbing vision:  neural efficiency, haemodynamics and homeostasis (Professor Arnold Wilkins, University of Essex)

2013-10-15 13:00: Plasticity, and its limits, in the adult visual system:  Contrast adaptation from 4 minutes to 4 days  (Stephen Engel, University of Minnesota)

2013-11-01 13:00: The sensitivity of the human eye to the polarisation of light (Dr Juliette McGregor, University of Bristol)

2013-12-11 13:00: Topographic processing of numerosity in the human brain (Dr. B. M. Harvey, University of Utrecht)

2014-01-28 13:00: Functional architectonics of local masking in three dimensions (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute))

2014-03-06 13:00: Neuronal mechanisms for perceptual organization (Dr Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

2014-04-30 13:00: Inferring neural tuning from visual aftereffects (Katherine Storrs (Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences Department, UCL))

2014-05-27 13:00: Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience (Professor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-12 13:00: A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception. (Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) )

2014-09-30 13:00: Testing the Bayesian confidence hypothesis (Wei Ji Ma (New York University))

2014-10-01 13:00: Color Transformations Across the Life Span:  Two Hypotheses about Modulation by Light (Professor John S. Werner, University of California, Davis)

2014-10-14 13:00: Evolution of vertebrate photoreception and retinoid cycle:  Clues from the eye transcriptome of basal vertebrates (Professor Trevor Lamb, Australian National University, Canberra)

2014-10-27 13:00: Conjoint Measurement for assessing the contributions of different stimulus dimensions within a signal detection framework. (Dr Kenneth Knoblauch, Inserm, Bron)

2014-10-29 13:00: Fading and Filling-in (Professor Lothar Spillmann, Freiburg)

2014-11-25 13:00: ‘I can get that song out of your head: Decoding perceptual representations with retinotopic and tonotopic maps.’ (Geoffrey M. Boynton, Jessica Thomas, and Ione Fine, University of Washington)

2014-12-03 13:00: Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg)

2015-01-29 13:00: Material matters: the brain knows the binocular statistics of gloss (Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology)

2015-04-17 13:00: Perceptual Organization of Shape (Dr James Elder, York University, Toronto)

2015-08-21 13:00: Visual perceptual learning:  A new perspective (Professor Cong Yu, Peking University)

2015-11-04 13:00: Methods and mechanisms of motion dazzle (Anna Hughes, PDN Cambridge)

2015-11-26 13:00: Specular surfaces improve colour constancy (Dr. Robert Lee (Lincoln))

2016-01-14 13:00: Eye movements for sampling and calibrating visual information (Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner)

2016-02-01 13:00: Probing Visual System Organization after Injury with fMRI  (Dr Stelios Smirnakis, Baylor College of Medicine)

2016-02-17 13:00: Colour perception in synaesthesia (Professor Katsuaki Sakata, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan)

2016-04-14 13:00: Natural statistics and human perception of shape and gloss (Wendy J. Adams, Southampton University)

2016-04-26 13:00: Flight, flow and gaze control:  Design principles of fly stabilization reflexes (Professor Holger G. Krapp, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College, London)

2016-04-29 13:00: Sensory receptor diversity and colour vision range in butterflies and diptera (Dr Mike Perry, NYU)

2016-05-18 13:00: “Why are rods more sensitive than cones?”  (Professor Gordon Fain (UCLA and PDN))

2016-05-20 12:00: Perception as a closed-loop convergence process (Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute))

2016-07-06 13:00: Wings inform:  mechanosensing in insect flight control. (Tom Daniel (U. Washington, USA))

2016-07-18 13:00: Attention filters for features (Professor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine)

2016-12-12 10:30: One day meeting on vision and neuroscience (One day meeting on vision and neuroscience)

2016-12-14 13:00: Neural mechanisms supporting the development of visual perception (Dr Lynne Kiorpes  (NYU))

2016-12-16 13:00: When efficient encoding meets Bayesian decoding (Alan Stocker (University of Pennsylvania))

2017-01-12 13:00: "Multimodal 3D perception: From binocular disparity to generic depth processing" (Professor Christopher Tyler (City University and Smith-Kettlewell Institute))

2017-03-01 13:00: “How does melanopsin help us to see?“ (Dr Annette Allen, Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester)

2017-03-21 13:00: "The koniocellular visual pathway" (Dr Samuel Solomon, Reader in Visual Neuroscience, Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London)

2017-05-03 13:00: Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man. (Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham)

2017-06-26 13:00: Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex (Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford))

2017-09-04 13:00: Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning (Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside)

2017-10-02 13:00: Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision (Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University)

2017-11-07 13:00: The role of the oculomotor system in visual attention and visual short-term memory (Dr. Daniel T. Smith, Durham University)

2017-11-21 13:00: Crowding and the disruptive effect of clutter throughout the visual system (Dr John Greenwood, Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL)

2017-11-23 13:00: Investigating the Functional Anatomy of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Brain (Dr Samatha Strong, School of Optometry and Visual Science, Bradford)

2017-11-28 13:00: Neuroimaging studies of binocular vision: States, traits, debates. (Dr Janine Mendola (McGill))

2018-02-16 13:00: Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech (Milena Bonte, University of Maastricht)

2018-02-21 13:00: Gaze and Locomotion in Natural Terrains (Professor M. Hayhoe, University of Texas)

2018-04-24 13:00: Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics (Mehrdad Jazayeri)

2018-05-09 13:00: You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity:  a biologically inspired and implemented motion model (Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute)

2018-05-29 13:00: Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis (John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A.)

2018-10-15 13:00: Cortical mechanisms underlying integration of local visual cues to form global representations (Dr Wei Wang)

2018-11-28 13:00: Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms (Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex)

2018-12-11 13:00: "Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision" (Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil)

2019-01-17 13:00: Visual categorization of simple stimuli  (Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University)

2019-01-25 13:00: Working memory binding and episodic memory formation: evidence from neuroimaging, aging and patient studies (Professor Roy P. C. Kessels, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen)

2019-02-13 13:00: Adaptation Produces Change-Salience (Professor M. J. Morgan, City, University of London)

2019-03-14 13:00: "Visual processing differences in migraine, between attacks, and their links with environmental visual triggers. From the retina to cortex."  (Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck)

2019-04-24 13:00: Visual selection in the mouse: behavioural and cortical mechanisms (Dr Jasper Poort, Department of Psychology, Cambridge)

2019-05-07 13:00: Binocular vision and the control of hand movements (Dr Simon Watt, Bangor University)

2019-05-16 13:00: The neurobiology of perceptual and value based decisions: A memorable connection (Michael Shadlen MD, PhD, Columbia University)

2019-06-13 13:00: First steps in experimentally exploring human visual and auditory development in utero (Professor Vincent Reid, University of Lancaster)

2019-07-01 13:00:  Deriving a Theory of the Perceived Motion Direction of Plaids (Professor George Sperling (Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine))

2020-01-09 13:00: Single Trial Neural Circuit Dynamics Underlying Perceptual Decision-Making (Chand Chandrasekaran (Boston University))

2023-10-02 13:00: A new approach to understanding eye design (Professor Simon Laughlin (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2024-02-13 13:00: Competition between predictive processes and prefrontal cortex functions: from non-invasive brain stimulation to local sleep ( Dezső Németh (Chaire Professeur, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), INSERM, France))