题目：Dancing chickens and gorillas in the lung: If I can see so much, why do I miss so much?

报告人：Prof. Jeremy M Wolfe

报告人简介：

Prof.Jeremy M Wolfe is Professor of Ophthalmology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School. In addition, he is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and an Adjunct Associate Professor in Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University. He received his AB in 1977 from Princeton and his Ph.D. in Psychology from MIT in 1981. His work in the laboratory can be broadly divided into Basic and Clinical/Applied topics unified by a general interest in fundamental processes vision and visual attention. We use a variety of methodologies but we are primarily a human behavioral lab using psychophysical methods.

时间：2015年10月13日 星期二 13:00-15:00

地点： Room 1113, Wangkezhen Building

邀请人：方方

摘要：

When you open your eyes on a new scene, you immediately see something. You can understand the basic ‘gist’ of that scene within a fraction of a second. You can remember that seen for days after a just a few seconds exposure. Nevertheless, we can easily show that you are ‘blind’ or at least remarkably amnesic about very basic aspects of what you have just seen. I will attempt to explain this seemingly contradictory collection of abilities and limits. Moreover, I will discuss the impact of  these aspects of normal human vision and attention on important tasks like airport security and cancer screening.