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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>A possibly interesting biological vision talk on July 11<sup>th</sup>:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Dyns-fac [mailto:dyns-fac-bounces@psych.ucsb.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Jacobs Goard<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 1, 2016 2:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> dyns-fac@dyns.ucsb.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> [Dyns-fac] *** Seminar: Ralf Wessel, 7/11 @ 11AM in 4164 Bio II ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Monday, July 11 at 11am in 4164 Bio II<br>"Cortical vision from emergent global dynamics"</span></b><br><br><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Ralf Wessel</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dept. of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Host: Michael Goard</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>The confusing thicket of connections between neurons renders the brain a complex system. We have embarked on deducing how the subjective experience of vision emerges from the interaction of billions of neurons. Picking up mathematical tools from established studies of complexity, we infer<br>network properties from the statistics of neural activity in cerebral cortex during visual processing. Specifically, I will present evidence for the notion that brain circuits self-organize to operate at a point of optimized signal processing, including during intense visual stimulation.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>