Recent News


9.8.11
Andreas Rauschecker's paper, "Circuits for Visual Feature-Tolerance in the Reading Network", published in Neuron!

 07.08.11
Andreas Rauschecker to defend his thesis: "Visual Cortical Circuitry for Building Word Representations" Friday July 8 @12pm in the Clark Center Auditorium

 06.22.11
Andreas Rauschecker's paper, "Circuits for Visual Feature-Tolerance in the Reading Network", is accepted for publication in Neuron!

 04.28.11
Steve Lansel to defend his thesis: " Local, linear, and learned:  A method to design image processing pipelines."
May 4, 1pm in Packard 202

 09.28.10
BBC: The story of SB, who had his sight restored after over 50 years of blindness

09.28.10
BBC: The story of SB, who had his sight restored after over 50 years of blindness.
06.02.10
Jonathan Winawer's paper: 'Mapping hV4 and ventral occipital cortex: The venous eclipse' was published in Journal of Vision.
09.28.10
BBC: The story of SB, who had his sight restored after over 50 years of blindness.

09.13.10
Wandell featured in NPR story: Treating Blindness Takes More Than Meets The Eye.
Listen to the story on NPR

06.02.10
Jonathan Winawer's paper: 'Mapping hV4 and ventral occipital cortex: The venous eclipse' was published in Journal of Vision.

 06.02.10
Yoichiro Masuda's paper: 'Task-dependent V1 Rresponses in Human Retinitis Pigmentosa' published in Investigative Opthamology and Visual Science. 

03.01.10
Listen to the Quest radio special "Teaching the Brain to See " on KQED, featuring an interview with professor Wandell.

01.19.10
Read the article: "Stanford president urges lawmakers to change export controls."

01.13.10
VISTA Lab research featured in article: "Stanford scientists link brain development to chances of recovering vision after blindness."
 
12.02.09
Jessica Tsang's paper, "Frontoparietal white matter diffusion properties predict mental arithmetic skills in children," published in PNAS. 

11.22.09
Wandell, Stanford and IBM in the news: IBM announces advances toward a computer that works like a brain

 


11.3.09 
Jonathan Winawer's paper accepted for publication in Journal of Vision 

8.25.09 
Kaoru Amano's paper published in J. Neurophysiology 

4.1.09 
Hiroshi Horiguchi's paper accepted for publication in NeuroImage!

3.2.09 
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