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MBI Seminar - Bard Ermentrout

March 9, 2015
3:00PM - 3:50PM
Jennings 355 (MBI Auditorium)

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Add to Calendar 2015-03-09 15:00:00 2015-03-09 15:50:00 MBI Seminar - Bard Ermentrout Title: All the way with Gaston Floquet: A theory for flicker hallucinationsSpeaker: Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)Abstract: When the human visual system is subjected to diffuse flickering light in the range of 5-25 Hz, many subjects report beautiful swirling colorful geometric patterns. In the years since Jan Purkinje first described them, there have been many qualitative and quantitative analyses of the conditions in which they occur. Here, we use a simple excitatory-inhibitory neural network to explain the dynamics of these fascinating patterns. We employ a combination of computational and mathematical methods to show why these patterns arise. We demonstrate that the geometric forms of the patterns are intimately tied to the frequency of the flickering stimuli. We also show that the patters that arise are completely expected based on symmetric bifurcation arguments.Seminar URL: http://mbi.osu.edu/programs/mbi-colloquium/ Jennings 355 (MBI Auditorium) Department of Mathematics math@osu.edu America/New_York public

Title: All the way with Gaston Floquet: A theory for flicker hallucinations

Speaker: Bard Ermentrout (University of Pittsburgh)

Abstract: When the human visual system is subjected to diffuse flickering light in the range of 5-25 Hz, many subjects report beautiful swirling colorful geometric patterns. In the years since Jan Purkinje first described them, there have been many qualitative and quantitative analyses of the conditions in which they occur. Here, we use a simple excitatory-inhibitory neural network to explain the dynamics of these fascinating patterns. We employ a combination of computational and mathematical methods to show why these patterns arise. We demonstrate that the geometric forms of the patterns are intimately tied to the frequency of the flickering stimuli. We also show that the patters that arise are completely expected based on symmetric bifurcation arguments.

Seminar URL: http://mbi.osu.edu/programs/mbi-colloquium/

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