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Mark your calendars for this exciting
upcoming CVR Lecture!
Mike May
There's Always a Way
Tuesday, February 9th
12 noon Film showing of "The Man Who Learnt to See"
the BBC documentary explores May’s life,
the stem cell transplant surgery that restored
his vision, and scientific research on his
visual perception
3:30 pm Reception
4:00 pm Lecture by Mike May
Marcuvitz Auditorium
Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences
185 Meeting Street
Events are free and open to the public.
working at
the interface of disciplines
Cick here to listen to the NPR interview with Robert
Kurson who wrote a book about Mike May's life
Crashing Through: from blindness to sight
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Read BBC's: 13 Questions for Mike May
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Read article in Nature Neuroscience:
Seeing after Blindness
excerpt:
The empiricist philosopher John Locke first
addressed the issue of whether experience is
important in the development of vision in 1694. The
question was originally raised in a letter from his
Dublin lawyer friend William Molyneux:
"Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and
taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube
and a sphere of the same metal... and the blind man
made to see. Query, whether by his sight before he
touched them, could he distinguish and tell which
was the globe and which the cube?... The acute and
judicious proposer answers: not. For though he has
attained the experience that what affects his touch,
yet he has not yet attained the experience of how the
globe, how the cube, affects his touch so and so,
must affect his sight, so and so..."
CVR Lecture Series
2009-2010
2009
Sept 17
Co-sponsor, Dept of Neuroscience
Oct 1
Co-sponsor, Dept of Neuroscience
Oct 27
Nov 6
Co-sponsor, Div. of Applied Math
2010
Feb 9
Mike May
There's Alway's a Way
Feb 12
Co-sponsor, Div. of Applied Math
March 9
Ken Nakayama, Harvard
Range and Scope of Human Face
Processing Abilities
March 11
Co-sponsor, Dept of Neuroscience
April 5
April 7
Vladimir Kefalov
Washington University
April 22