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Eye Opener: Welcome to the latest edition of CRS News. From lectures and research to news stories and events, it's our business to be up to date. This is our way of sharing the new ideas we've spotted with our customers, our collaborators and the wider scientific community of which we are proud to be a part. To learn more about us, visit www.crsltd.com |
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Active Vision: Asking the Right Questions about Human Vision
 Professor Iain Gilchrist delivered The G J Burton Memorial lecture at the AVA Annual Meeting earlier this year and draws upon the many arguments for ignoring eye movements in vision experiments and shows us how, in fact, there is no argument! He reveals the types of questions we should really be asking if we want to develop a complete and useful model of vision. The 30 minute lecture is available with slides and audio on our website.
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Conferences |
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The Chinese Society for Neuroscience, Hangzhou, China - 24th to 28th October
Come and meet our Chinese distributors Ryan Huang and Jerry Xu from Qichi Instruments and discover how many leading Chinese neurophysiologists are exploiting the ViSaGe Advantage to investigate basic properties of the visual system.
Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, USA - 3rd to 7th November
We look forward to meeting those of you who are attending this year's biggest event in neuroscience. Don't miss this opportunity to get the latest news about MRI-Live! and our other tools for functional imaging. We will also be demonstrating the new BlueGain family of wireless Bluetooth biosignal amplifiers, including BlueGainEOG. Watch out for a special bulletin ate the end of October containing lots more information about our range of solutions for visual neuroscience experiments.
And don't forget these other important events:
OSA Fall Vision Meeting, Berkeley, USA - 16th to 19th September
We are sponsoring and recording an invited lecture by Kathy Mullen (McGill Vision Research), which will be titled "Color processing in the human LGN and cortex measured with fMRI".
Object Perception Attention and Memory, Long Beach, USA - 15th November
We are sponsoring and recording the keynote lecture, which will be delivered this year by Vincent Di Lollo (Simon Fraser University).
British Ocular Motor Group, London, UK - 7th December
CRS Guest Lecturer: To Be Confirmed.
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Other News at CRS |
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Congratulations to Shirley-Anne Paul, doctoral student at the University of Dundee, on winning the CRS Sponsored Rudolf Groner Young Scientist's Award at the 14th ECEM conference in Germany this August. Her poster presentation entitled "Evidence for frequency and predictability interactions on word processing times." was selected by a ballot of all ECEM 2007 members.
Find out more about Shirley-Anne and her fascinating poster on our website.
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Staff in the Spotlight |
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Amanda Hurrell - Vision Sales Coordinator
Many of you will already know Amanda, as she personally coordinates every sale here at CRS. What you may not know is that she's a keen cyclist and active member of her local village community. From sponsored bike rides and school fêtes to writing for the local newspaper; Amanda really likes to get involved. Her enthusiastic and keen nature ensures everyone she deals with here at CRS gets the best of service!
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Product News from CRS |
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BlueGainEOG - cost effective, flexible, wireless EOG measurements
BlueGain is a new biosignal amplifier for directly measuring patient bio-potentials. The BlueGainEOG version records electrooculograms (EOG) and sends the eye movement signals via a wireless Bluetooth connection to a host computer for further processing. An infrared sensor allows the recorded data to be synch! ronised with external events.
BlueGainEOG is an ideal tool for simple, minimally invasive eye movement investigations and works with the minimum amount of disruption to a subject's natural behavior. The wireless setup and arm-band give complete freedom of movement without distraction.
Easy to integrate video eye tracking, now with binocular tracking at 250Hz in each eye, and at an affordable price!
To enhance the usability of our family of video-based eye trackers, we are currently working on a new solution that decouples the eye tracking from the stimulus presentation system. This approach will liberate significant processing resources in the host computer, which can be critical for many real-time applications, and at the same time will make it much simpler to integrate with third-party software. The High-Speed, 250Hz version of the system will also be available with a binocular tracking facility.
To find out more about how the new system will work, visit our website.
Add depth to your study with our mirror haploscope accessory
For binocular and stereoscopic experiments, add our haploscope accessory to your CRS video eye tracker. The optical arrangement works with a single monitor in a vertical split screen configuration, allowing each eye to be presented with a different image while being tracked at the same time by the eye tracker.
If you are interested in adding the haploscope to your existing CRS video eye tracker, visit our website to find out more.
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Product News from CRS |
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Real-time saccade detector for analog eye trackers.
The CRS Saccade Detector is a configurable, real-time eye movement classification system for analog eye trackers like the Fourward Technologies DPI eye tracker. Its onboard data acquisition system continuously acquires the horizontal and vertical eye position voltages at 1kHz and the classification algorithm will determine if the input is a saccade or a fixation with a fixed, short latency. Digital trigger pulses indicate which event has occurred, which can be fed back to the stimulus presentation system and used for a range of saccade-contingent studies.
To find out more about how the new system will work, visit our website.
Farewell to Skalar IRIS limbus tracker.
After 20 years, production of the Skalar IRIS IR Light Eye Tracker for oculomotor research will come to an end this year. The limbus tracking device has the fidelity to record large and small eye movements and has been used in countless studies worldwide, building up a reputation for its robust and reliable performance.
So, if you are thinking about getting your first Skalar IRIS, or perhaps need spare ! parts for your existing system, don't miss your chance and contact us as soon as possible!
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