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Educational Outreach August, 2011 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA Visual Neuroscience

Educational Outreach August, 2011 Irvine, California, USA Alyssa A. Brewer and Brian Barton present information about the human brain to Tibetan scholars visting from India, Geshe Lobsang Jamyang, Geshe Lobsang Sopa, and their translator Kungsang Dorjee

Professional Research Presentation July 31 – August 5, 2011 San Jose, California, USA Oral Presentation: Asher, D., Zaldivar, A., Barton, B., Brewer, A.A., & Krichmar, J. (2011) The Effects of Neuromodulation on Human-Robot Interaction in Games of Conflict and Cooperation.

Professional Research Presentation June 4, 2011 La Jolla, California, USA Oral Presentation: Brewer, A.A. & Barton, B. Functional Plasticity in Human Parietal Cortex: Adapting to Reversed Visual Input. Poster Presentation:

Melanie Humphrey (Summer): Visuo-Motor Adaptation to Left-Right Prism Goggles Jacob (Messer) Redmond: Case Studies of Plasticity in the Visual Cortex as a Result of Natural Recovery in Chronic Hemianopsia Aaron Craddolph, Brianna Penley, Jacob Redmond: Comparative Analysis of Corollary Discharge between Normal Subjects and Patients with Visual Hemianopsia

Veronica Eckstein has completed her Ph.D.: A Novel Model for Pitch Perception and Functional Localization of Attentionally Modulated Pitch and Loudness Perception

Grant Award University of California, Irvine May, 2011 Award Amount: $1,495 PI: Alyssa A. Brewer, M.D., Ph.D.

Professional Research Presentation April, 2011 University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA ‘Clover Leaf’ Clusters in Human Visual Cortex

Professional Research Presentation March 23-27, 2011 Göttingen, Germany Oral Presentations: Brewer, A.A. & Barton, B. Functional Plasticity in Adult Human Cortex in Response to an Extreme Alteration of Visual Input.

Professional Research Presentation March, 2011 Irvine, California, USA Oral Presentation: Brewer, A.A. & Barton, B. ‘Clover Leaf’ Clusters in Human Visual Cortex. Poster Presentation: Barton, B. & Brewer, A.A. Perceptual and fMRI Evidence for Filling-In of the Rod Scotoma Under Scotopic Conditions.