[BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture Tuesday, October 27, 2009

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

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Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
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From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms.
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Subject: Killam Lecture Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Killam Lecture

Speaker:  Peter H. Schiller, Ph.D.
Dorothy Poitras Professor of Medical Physiology
MIT, Cambridge, MA

Title:  The Parallel Information Processing Channels Created in the Retina

Time:  4:00 pm

Date:  Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Place:  de Grandpre Communications Centre

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This week's Killam speaker is Peter Schiller, Professor at MIT, and one of the most prominent systems neuroscientist in the world today. Peter has made critical contributions to our understanding of two fields of research; vision and eye movements. His big contributions to the former have been on the relationship between visual areas and behaviour as revealed by lesion studies, mapping of different efferent pathways from the retina (color opponent, ON, OFF, magno and parvocellular pathways), and early work on visual receptive fields in the primary visual cortex. His pioneering studies on eye movements have shown the importance of the frontal lobe and superior colliculus to voluntary eye movement control. Another of his remarkable achievements has been in education. He has one of the most remarkable "neurotrees" in the history of neuroscience having trained some of the most famous neuroscientist of our time. Recently he has become involved in the study of how electrical stimulation of the visual cortex might provide  vision in the visually handicapped. Peter's talk at 1600h in the de Grandpre auditorium of the MNI on Tuesday Oct 27 is entitled: "The parallel information processing channels created in the retina"


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