Visual Memory and the Brain

Friday May 9, 2008
1-3 pm
Naples Grand Hotel

Speakers:
Lynn Robertson, UC Berkeley
Yuhong Jiang, U. MN
Yaoda Xu, Yale
Neil Muggleton & Vincent Walsh, UCL
Marian Berryhill & Ingrid Olson, Penn & Temple

Overview:
Visual memory describes the relationship between perceptual processing and their storage and retrieval. Visual memory occurs over a broad time range: from the duration of an eye movements to years.

- How does the brain encode, store, and retrieve stored visual representations?
- What neural mechanism limits the capacity and resolution of visual memory?
- Do the same neural areas participate in short-term and long-term visual memory?
- Do particular neural regions, such as the intraparietal sulcus, participate only in visual memory, or does it have a more generally role in attentionally demanding tasks such as binding and multi-object tracking?
- Are different brain areas critically involved in storing different visual materials?

Marian Berryhill, Ph.D.
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow - Olson Lab
Department of Psychology
Temple University

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
berryhil@psych.upenn.edu

Tags: Brain, conference, Visual Memory