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25, 2019</span></b></p>
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The Center for Perceptual Systems at the University of Texas at Austin is
hosting a workshop on "Natural Environments, Tasks and Intelligence"
(</span><a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cps/cps-workshops/neti-2019/neti-2019.php" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/cps/cps-workshops/neti-2019/neti-2019.php</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dates:
April 26 – 28, 2019 (Friday - Sunday)<br>
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Purpose: Perceptual and motor systems must reflect the natural tasks the
organism performs as well as the properties of the natural environments in
which the organism performs those tasks. Thus, the aim of this workshop is to
stimulate research in "natural systems analysis," which consists of
several interrelated components: (i) identification and characterization of
natural tasks, (ii) measurement and analysis of natural scene statistics, (iii)
analysis of the computational requirements of natural tasks, (iv) rigorous
experimental study of neural and behavioral performance in natural tasks.</span></p>
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Organizers: Bill Geisler, Mary Hayhoe, and Alex Huk<br>
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Speakers:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Lynn Kiorpes Center
Neural Science, NYU</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Weji Ma Center
for Neural Science, NYU</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Pascal Mamassian Université
Paris Descartes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Bruno Olshausen Helen
Wills Neuroscience Institute, UC Berkeley</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Stephanie Palmer Dept.
of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, U Chicago</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Anitha Pasuparthy Dept.
of Biological Structure, U Washington</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Jenny Read Institute
of Neuroscience, Newcastle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Aman Saleem Institute
of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Nachum Ulanovsky Dept.
of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Xiaogin Wang Laboratory
Auditory Neurophysiology, Johns Hopkins</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Michael Webster Visual
Perception Lab, U Nevada Reno</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Daniel Wolpert Dept.
of Neuroscience, Columbia</span></p>
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In addition to the oral presentations there will also be a poster session
Saturday afternoon. Potential attendees are encouraged to register in advance
as the size of the workshop will be restricted to foster interaction among
attendees.<br>
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Spring in Austin is a glorious time of year with wildflowers in bloom and an
average temperature ranging from 57 F (14 C) low to 79 F (26 C) high.</span></p></div>