Bob Desimone gave a fascinating colloquium on the mechanisms of visual attention, studied by single unit recording in monkeys. CCN people have been giving talks as well as attending them. Martha continued her industrial espionage at other centers for Cognitive Neuroscience, under the guise of the Mind, Brain, Behavior Distinguished Lecture at Duke University. Finally, a couple of nonacademic developments of note. This was a long time coming.
Faculty searches Our academic searches are progressing well.
With the beginning of the new semester, we have three new Cognitive Neuroscience classes being offered. Mark Jung Beeman is offering a new undergraduate class on hemispheric specialization. Our research facilities continue to expand, this month with the addition of in-scanner eye tracking. For the annual progress report to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Marc Dichter requested a listing of our year 2000 publications. Acute carotid occlusion alters the activation-flow coupling response to forepaw stimulation in a rat model.