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CNS 2013 Meeting: Making Decisions Based on Context: A New Mechanism Gains Traction

April 14, 2013

The audience for Sunday morning’s keynote lecture at CNS 2013 got to play the part of monkeys during a talk by William Newsome of Stanford University, though our task was a bit easier than what his test monkeys usually experience. Normally, in Newsome’s experiment, monkeys have 750 milliseconds to determine either whether a flashing field […]

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Understanding What Shapes Our Visual Reality: Q&A with William Newsome

February 15, 2013

“Anyone who works with monkeys on a day-in-day-out basis eventually asks him or herself a startling question: Exactly who is training whom here?” Our brains, not our eyes, are largely responsible for our visual reality. Although the eyes take and lightly process the pictures, it is our brains that reconstruct what we have seen from […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: perception, visual, william newsome 1 Comment

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