8 May 2009 - Evidence for Peak-shaped Gaze Fields in Area V6A: Implications for Sensorimotor Transformations in Reaching Tasks  The majority of the gaze-related cells of the parietal area V6A of the macaque are non-linearly tuned. The use of non-linear, peak-shaped gaze fields improves the efficiency of the coding scheme of the position of reaching targets, expecially when a small number of units is avaliable.         Breveglieri, R.(1), Bosco, A.(1), Canessa, A.(2), Fattori, P.(1), Sabatini, S.P.(2)     Department of Human and General Physiology     University of Bologna (1)     Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE)     University of Genoa (2)
		27 March 2009 - Learning receptive fields out of natural scenes with an biological motivated model of rate coded neurons  A model for learning receptive fields out of natural scenes. This model is based on biological motivated assumptions like attention and Hebbian learning and leads to receptive fields that are very similar to those measured by electrophysiological recordings.         F.H. Hamker, J. Wiltschut     Department of Psychology     University of Münster (Germany)
		24 March 2009 - Vergence simulator  The first version of the vergence simulator is ready. The simulator has been developed as a MATLAB-based platform for vergence control strategies development, modeling and testing. But it also can be used in wide spectrum of tasks, in which 3D modeling is involved, e.g. generation of the synthetic stereo images, computation of the ground truth optical flow, and disparity statistics estimation for the 3D scenes etc. Nikolay Chumerin Computational Neuroscience Research Group Laboratorium voor Neuro- en Psychofysiologie K.U.Leuven
		23 March 2009 - A Virtual Reality Simulator for Active Vision Systems  The novelty of the proposed approach is to use the Virtual Reality as a tool to simulate the behavior of physical systems, in particular of the visual system of a robot, rather than to make the perceptual rendering of the visual information exploitable by human users.         M. Chessa, S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari     Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE)     University of Genoa
		03 March 2009 - Reading out Binocular Energy Population Codes for Short-latency Disparity-vergence Eye Movements  A model for the extraction of the vergence control signals, without computing the disparity map, is proposed. The model, based on a population of specialized disparity detectors, has been tested in vergence task on a plane moving in depth.         A. Gibaldi, M. Chessa, A. Canessa, S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari     Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE)     University of Genoa