Dr. Boynton joined the faculty of the University of Rochester in 1952 as an Assistant Professor of Psychology. In 1963, Dr. Boynton founded the University of Rochester's Center for Visual Science (CVS), and served as director of CVS until 1971. He was well known for his research on the neurophysiological processes in the eye and brain that underlie vision. His book, "Human Color Vision" is a standard text studied by others in this area of science. He also published more than 1,500 pages in his more-than-40-year career. The CVS Boynton Colloquium Series, which features leading researchers across the interdisciplinary field of vision research, is named in his honor.
Upcoming Boynton Colloquia
January 31, 2024
3:00 p.m., Rm 2-6408, K207 Auditorium
Jess Cardin, Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine
Functional flexibility in the cortex
March 13, 2024
3:00 p.m., Rm 2-6408, K207 Auditorium
Kapil Bharti, National Eye Institute
Translating RPE Biology into Disease Treatment Using iPS Cells
April 24, 2024
3:00 p.m., Rm 2-6408, K207 Auditorium
W. Martin Usrey, UC Davis
Feedforward and Feedback Interactions for Vision
Past Boynton Colloquia
2023
May 17, 2023
Simon Kelly, University College Dublin
Insights into adaptive perceptual decision formation from human behavior, EEG, and cognitive modelling
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May 3, 2023
Sabine Kastner, Princeton University
The Cognitive Visual Thalamus
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January 18, 2023
Bryan Jones, University of Utah
Retinal Connectomics and Pathoconnectomics
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2022
December 14, 2022
Carlos Ponce, Harvard Medical School
Tuning landscapes of the primate ventral stream
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April 27, 2022
Jennifer Bizley, University College London
How do audiovisual interactions shape sound processing in auditory cortex?
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2021
Dec 8, 2021
Ziad Hafed, Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
Unraveling the neural mechanisms of perceptual saccadic suppression
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January 25, 2021
Carla Shatz, Stanford University
Synapses Lost and Found: Critical periods, Amblyopia and Alzheimer's disease
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February 8, 2021
Alessandra Angelucci, U. of Utah
Organization and function of feedback connections in early visual processing
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October 20, 2021
Chinfei Chen, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
Plasticity of Retinal Inputs in the Mouse Visual Thalamus
2020
November 23, 2020
Melchi Michel, Rutgers University
Visual Memory and Information Integration across Saccadic Eye Movements
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December 7, 2020
EJ Chichilnisky, Stanford University
Toward a High-fidelity Artificial Retina
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