"Illusions and Ghost Resonances: How brains Could See What Isn't There."

2/7/2003: 10:30am - 12:00pm
11th Floor Large Conference Room
Host: Kristina Lerman

Abstract: To judge with certainty which information our senses are paying attention to is a hard problem, because often what we see, hear, or feel is not out there. In this talk, objective explanations are discussed for these tantalizing illusions demonstrating how relatively simple nonlinear stochastic transformations make the solution possible.

About Dante R. Chialvo: Received his diploma in Medicine in 1982 from the University of Rosario in Argentina. From 1982 to 1984 he held a post-doctoral position at the Institute of Biological Research (Physics and Physiology Department), University of Tucuman (Argentina). In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the University of Rosario. From 1987 to 1992 he was Research Associate Professor at the State University of New York (Syracuse) in the Pharmacology Department and later in the Computational Neuroscience Program. He also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Wuerzburg (Germany), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Rockefeller University, University of Rosario (Argentina),and University of Islas Baleares, Mallorca (Spain). He is currently Research A. Professor at Northwestern University (Chicago) as well a Adjunt Faculty at the Center of Studies in Physics and Biology (Rockefeller Univ. New York) and Research Physiologist at UCLA. His research interests cover many areas of nonlinear dynamics in physics and biology.

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