VISION, BRAIN, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITION Friday, March 17, 1995 Boston University George Sherman Union Conference Auditorium, Second Floor 775 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Co-Sponsored by the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, the Center for Adaptive Systems, and the Center for Philosophy and History of Science PROGRAM: 8:30am--9:30am: BELA JULESZ, Rutgers University, Why is the early visual system more interesting than the kidney? 9:30am--10:30am: KEN NAKAYAMA, Harvard University, Visual perception of surfaces 10:30am--11:00am: Coffee Break 11:00am--12:00pm: STEPHEN GROSSBERG, Boston University, Cortical dynamics of visual perception 12:00pm--1:00pm: PATRICK CAVANAGH, Harvard University, Attention-based visual processes 1:00pm--2:30pm: Lunch 2:30pm--3:30pm: V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, University of California, Neural plasticity in the adult human brain: New directions of research 3:30pm--4:30pm: EVAN THOMPSON, Boston University, Phenomenology and computational vision 4:30pm--5:30pm: DANIEL DENNETT, Tufts University, Filling-in revisited 5:30pm---: Discussion REGISTRATION: The conference is free and open to the public. PARKING: Parking is available at nearby campus lots: 808 Commonwealth Avenue ($6 per vehicle), 766 Commonwealth Avenue ($8 per vehicle), and 700 Commonwealth Avenue ($10 per vehicle). If these lots are full, please ask the lot attendant for an alternate location. CONTACT: Professor Stephen Grossberg Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems 111 Cummington Street Boston, MA 02215 fax: (617) 353-7755 email: diana@cns.bu.edu