The VISTA Visiting Scholar/Trainee program provides travel support for high-caliber scholars and trainees collaborating on interdisciplinary research in biological and computational vision. The program promotes and expands long-term national and international collaborative relationships in vision science.
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| Dr. Denise Henriques York University Department of Kinesiology and Health Science |
Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat (LMU), Germany (A. Straube and T. Eggert)
Facilitating visuomotor learning and retention in healthy and neurologically damaged adults |
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| Dr. Ryan Canolty University of Houston, Texas Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
York University (Dr. Thilo Womelsdorf)
Exploring sparse coding algorithms for efficient visual image decomposition and for flexible representations in neuronal populations during visual attention. |
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| Visitor | Host and Project | |
| Jena Velji-Ibrahim York University Department of Kinesiology and Health Science (Supervisor Dr. Doug Crawford) |
University of Trento, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences (Dr. Simona Monaco)
Feedback connections between primary visual cortex and motor correlates underlying action preparation. |
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