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  Eye Opener: Welcome to the latest edition of CRS News. As our year draws to a close, there are some great developments to share with you and, of course, lots of exciting work to look forward to in the new year. We hope that those of you celebrating Christmas will have a happy one and send our very best wishes for a rewarding new year to all of our friends and customers across the world.  
 
 
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  aIn the W.S. Stiles Memorial Lecture, Professor Simon Laughlin FRS discusses how measuring information in bits has provided a useful tool for measuring the performance of components in visual systems. This entertaining lecture explains some of the experimental advantages of studying early visual processing in the fly and concludes that photoreceptors are a bit like cars.

Find out why by watching The Hungry Eye presentation on our website.
 
 
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The Applied Vision Association is working with CRS to establish a training course for budding vision scientists. The course will take place in June 2007 at the University of Birmingham in the UK and is designed to teach young investigators fundamental techniques for running vision experiments using MATLAB.

The content will consist of theoretical and practical sessions on topics such as: systems theory; specifying stimuli using matrices; monitor characterisation; measuring luminance and colour; displaying stimuli using look-up tables with the CRS ViSaGe system or as movie using Psychtoolbox; methods for stereoscopic presentation.

Places are strictly limited, so if you or your colleagues are interested attending, sign-up for more information on our website.

 
 
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AVA
December 18th 2006

CRS Guest Lecture by David Tolhurst

Applied Vision Association

Aston, UK


Colour Group
January 10th 2007

CRS Guest Lecture by Quasim Zaidi

Colour Group of Great Britain

London, UK




BOMG
January 10th 2007

CRS Best Poster Prize

British Oculomotor Group

Bristol UK



View more details on our conference partners here

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You've carefully designed a visual task but how can you be sure that your experimental subject is really fixating in the right place?
The Video Eyetracker Toolbox is a very cost effective way to add robust and reliable gaze tracking to your existing lab software and provides a simple way to control for eye movements.

Felisberti and Zanker used the equipment in a control study in their paper "Attention modulates perception of transparent motion" to measure fixation stability and to discount the possibility that eye movements were being used as strategy to improve performance in their multiple direction experiment.

The CRS approach to eye tracking is unique in the field. Unlike other companies, we have designed our range of video-based trackers from the ground up, with a Toolbox for MATLAB and a COM-based programming interface as the core methods for our customers to contr! ol the equipment. This approach makes it possible to start recording eye movements in just a few extra lines of MATLAB script or program code.

To find out just how easy it can be, take a look at the examples on the product pages of our website for the Video Eyetracker Toolbox.

Find out more about The Video Eyetracker Toolbox Click Here For More

GazeTracker for Everyone

We are very pleased to announce that Eye Response Technologies has recently extended GazeTracker to support the entire family of CRS video eyetrackers, including the latest High-Speed Video Eyetracker Toolbox.

GazeTracker is a powerful, menu-driven software package that consolidates stimulus presentation, information synchronisation, data analysis and visualisation in a single tool.

The integration of key ERT and CRS technologies means that only one standard desktop PC is required for to run experiments - even when the stimulus is a DVD-quality movie and the tracker is running at 250Hz.

Sign-up for a 30 day trial version of GazeTracker for your CRS Video Eyetracker Toolbox system and discover how you can use the system for all your cognitive experiments.

Find out more about the GazeTracker here Click Here For More


Who's Used Our Equipment In Their Research?

Google Scholar has allowed us to find many of the papers that cite use of our equipment. Using this tool alone, we discovered over 700 peer-reviewed articles from the late 1980s onwards that describe how investigators across the world have used the industry standard CRS Visual Stimulus Generator (VSG) system in their research.

Visit the product pages for the latest ViSaGe system to find out more about the wide range of studies that have benefited from our equipment:

F! ind out more here Click Here For More

If you are an existing customer and would like us to include a link to your on-line papers or personal website on the CRS site, please contact us by email: enquires@crsltd.com

 

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Memory Colour in Nature Neuroscience
If you have browsed through the Research Topics on our web site, you may have seen Karl Gegenfurtner's lecture, Color Constancy, Categorization, and Memory Colors, which was sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems at the annual Colour Group meeting 2005.
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We are pleased to hear from Karl that this work has now appeared in Nature Neuroscience:
Hansen, T., Olkkonen, M., Walter, S. & Gegenfurtner, K.R. (2006)
Memory modulates color appearance. Nature Neuroscience,  9, 1367-1368.

brochureCorporate Brochure
Our latest corporate brochure contains details of our product ranges and introduces some of the key people at Cambridge Research Systems. It is available online in English, Japanese and Chinese.
Download the brochure here

If you would like a printed copy, along with a complimentary CRS tape measure, please contact us.


New Faces at CRS
We are delighted to welcome two new members to our team at Cambridge Research Systems: Steve Howell is our new Applications & Support Engineer - he'll be responsible for the on-going development of our Toolboxes for MATLAB, and will assist new customers in getting started with their projects. Jinsong Ren joins our Development Team, working to employ emerging technologies as we develop new and original tools to advance our customers' research.
 
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