Old News
January 20, 2020: Dr. Morteza Rezanejad is joining our lab as a postdoc! Welcome Morteza!
May 2, 2019: We are looking for a new postdoc to work on vision and ontologies with us and the Semantic Technologies Lab.
April 15, 2019: John Wilder wins National Eye Institute Postdoctoral Travel Grant for VSS. Congratulations!
April 11, 2019: Dirk is awarded a two-year XSeed grant in collaboration with Michael Gruninger to study knowledge-based grouping for visual perception.
April 5, 2019: Explicitly computed measures of symmetry boost scene recognition by deep convolutional neural network! Check out our new paper, spear-headed by our collaborators at McGill!
March 05, 2019: Dr. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is appointed Senior Member of the IEEE.
March 04, 2019: Congratulations to Lauren Cao and Leo Guo for winning NSERC USRA fellowships to pursue their research this summer!
March 04, 2019: Congratulations to Lauren Cao and Leo Guo for winning NSERC USRA fellowships to pursue their research this summer!
December 20, 2018: Eye movements during study and recognition have distinct roles for scene memory. New paper by Claudia Damiano in Cognition!
December 6, 2018: Claudia Damiano receives the Department of Psychology TA Excellence Award. Congratulations, Claudia!
November 20, 2018: Local symmetry in complex scene images is an important cue for scene perception. New paper by John Wilder et al. in Cognition!
September 6th, 2018: Check out Claudia’s new paper in AP&P about mid-level feature contributions to category-specific guidance of gaze!
August 30th, 2018: Congratulations to Yaelan, who has been chosen as the Friends of Patrick 2018 award recipient!
August 1st, 2018: Check out John’s new paper in the Journal of Vision about the spatial relations between contours and their impact on scene perception.
July 24th, 2018: Charlotte Leferink wins the NSERC PGS-D award. Congratulations Charlotte!
June 27th, 2018: Be sure to check out Yaelan’s new paper entitled “ Modality-independent coding of scene categories in prefrontal cortex.“, published in the Journal of Neuroscience!
June 21st, 2018: Congratulations to Yealan and Dirk on their paper “ Representational differences between line drawings and photographs of natural scenes” for PRNI in Singapore!
June 21st, 2018: Check out Thomas O’Connell’s new paper about Representational differences between line drawings and photographs of natural scenes in Neuropsychologia!
June 1st, 2018: Matt Lowe’s paper, “Discriminating scene categories from brain activity within 100 ms” is published in Cortex today!
December 22nd, 2017: Dan Berman’s paper “Scene content is predominantly conveyed by high spatial frequencies in scene-selective visual cortex” is published in PLoS One today. Check it out for a new take on the role of spatial frequencies for scene processing in the brain!
September 1st, 2017: Charlotte Leferink is joining the lab as a graduate student. Welcome Charlotte!
July 20th, 2017: Yaelan receives a travel award for the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience in New York City. Congratulations!
June 22nd, 2017: Heeyoung presents her paper “Modeling the Effect of Stimulus Perturbations on Error Correlations between Brain and Behavior” at PRNI in Toronto.
June 7th, 2017: Dirk receives a SSHRC Insight Development grant to explore aesthetic aspects of seeing natural scenes.
May 3rd, 2017: Dirk wins a SONY Faculty Research Award! We’ll be studying the role of symmetry in the perception of complex scenes.
April 1st, 2017: Claudia wins the NSERC PGS-D award. Congratulations Claudia!
February 16th, 2017: John Wilder be joining our lab as a postdoc in September!
February 16th, 2017: Matthew Lowe wins the VSS travel award, congrats Matt!
February 15th, 2017: Yaelan and Claudia win the VSS 2017 t-shirt graphics competition! Be sure to pick up a t-shirt at VSS in May!
January 10th, 2017: Heeyoung and Dirk’s latest article “Neural codes of seeing architectural styles” has just been published! Check it out.
July 15th, 2016: Heeyoung and Dirk’s article “Contour junctions underlie neural representations of scene categories in human visual cortex” has made the cover of NeuroImage!
July 9th, 2016: The MRI scanner for our new imaging center has arrived today! Soon we’ll be up and scanning next door.
June 2nd, 2016: Ann Sheng wins Outstanding Achievement in Neuroscience. Way to go, Ann!
May 20th, 2016: Claudia Damiano wins SGS Conference Grant. Congratulations!
February 21st, 2016: Yalean Jung is the recipient of a VSS Student Travel Award. Congratulations, Yaelan!
February 21st, 2016: Ann Sheng was accepted into the Vienna Biocenter Summer Program. Ann will be spending this summer in Vienna, Austria, doing some exciting research. Congratulations, Ann!
February 8th, 2016: We wish all the best to Heeyoung, who is moving on to Diane Beck’s lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
July 13th, 2015: Dirk will be chairing a Nanosymposium on “Cortical Visual Representations of Scenes” at SfN in Chicago. Heeyoung and Yaelan got accepted to present their work in talks in the Nanosymposium.
May 26th, 2015: Claudia has been awarded an SGS Conference Grant. Congratulations!
May 1st, 2015: Dirk has received a Connaught New Researcher Award. Congratulations to Dirk!
April 14th, 2015: The paper “A Bayesian test for Comparing Classifier Errors” by Olivetti and Walther has been accepted for an oral presentation at PRNI 2015.
April 7th, 2015: Ann has won an Undergraduate Summer Research Award from the Department of Physiology. Congratulations Ann!
April 2nd, 2015: Our NSERC Discovery Grant on “Neural mechanisms of perceiving dynamic real-world environments” got funded!
March 13th, 2015: Congratulations to Ann! She has just been awarded a research grant by the Undergraduate Research Fund from the University of Toronto
March 3rd, 2015: Thomas O’Connell’s eye tracking paper “Dissociation of salience-driven and content-driven spatial attention to scene category with predictive decoding of gaze patterns” got accepted in the Journal of Vision.
January 12th, 2015: Our paper on “Contribution of malocclusion and female facial attractiveness to smile esthetics evaluated by eye tracking” got accepted for publication in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.