QBI Neuroscience Seminar: Vision in an Uncertain World: Processing of Contour Orientation in Human Primary Visual Cortex

Event Details

Date:

Wednesday, 07 October 2015 - Wednesday, 07 October 2015

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

QBI Level 7 Auditorium

UQ Location:

Queensland Brain Institute (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/neuroscience-seminars

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Full Description:: Professor Colin Clifford, Professor & ARC Future Fellow, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Presents: Vision in an Uncertain World: Processing of Contour Orientation in Human Primary Visual Cortex
Abstract: It is often said that we live in an uncertain world. Our neural processes face a generic problem of dealing with uncertain sensory input and inherently noisy internal representations. Here, I describe a series of recent fMRI and psychophysical studies demonstrating the effect of sensory uncertainty on the processing and perception of contour orientation in neurotypical human observers.