Dear Users
This afternoon (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be an internal
project proposal presentation given by Karla Evans. The title of Karla's
talk is "Global image processing".
Abstract:
Experiments have shown that people can rapidly determine if categories
such as “animal” or “beach” are present in scenes that are presented for
only a few milliseconds. Typically, observers in these experiments
report on one pre-specified category. My work shows that observers can
rapidly extract information about multiple categories. Moreover, the
findings demonstrate task-dependent interactions between accumulating
information about different categories in a scene that are in some cases
destructive. I believe that the explanation for this destructive
interference is that subjects have learned the spatiotemporal statistics
of the trials, which indicate that single targets are the norm: the
presence of a beach would almost always correlate with the absence of an
animal. My goal is to probe the neuronal correlates of this process to
better understand the mechanism of non-selective gist categorization. In
order to do this I will present a project plan that exploits repetition
attenuation in order study the task-dependent interaction during scene
categorisation.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
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