[Probcogsci] Correction! Date for Leanne's talk is 02/19, Friday as usual!

[Angela Yu]

On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Angela Yu wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We will continue discussing Teh's Pittman-Yor Process paper this
> Friday, which Mike will kindly lead again.
>
> Next week's meeting (2/12) is canceled due to Cogsci department's
> prospective grad students open house.
>
> The week after (2/17), Leanne Chukoskie, will give a talk on her eye
> movement research -- see abstract below.
>
>
> Effects of implicit learning in eye movement search
> Deciding where to look next demands the integration of bottom-up image
> salience with top-down goals, motivation and past experience. Most
> research has focused on the characteristics of the image regions; less
> attention has been given to the role of top-down influences despite
> their importance. Here, we explicitly manipulated prior experience by
> “hiding” reward locations and asking human and monkey subjects to
> conduct an eye movement search for the rewarded locations. Over the
> course of single experimental sessions, subjects redirected their gaze
> to the estimated center of the rewarded target distribution. The
> distribution of subjects’ eye movements also reflected the spread of
> the distribution. Thus, using this novel eye movement search task, we
> can control the association of a spatial region with reward and assess
> how implicit learning contributes to where we look next.
>
>
>
> See you all on Friday,
> Angela
>
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> Department of Cognitive Science
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