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[Nicola Bruno]

--First Announcement --
The XIVth Kanizsa Lecture & Trieste Symposium on Perception and  
Cognition
Trieste, Italy
26-27 October 2006

The Department of Psychology and the BRAIN Center for Neuroscience of  
the University of Trieste are pleased to invite you to the 14th  
Kanizsa Lecture. This year, the lecture will be given by Melvyn A.  
Goodale (University of Western Ontario) who will speak on “Visual  
Duplicity: Action without Perception in the Human Visual System”.   
The lecture will be on Friday, October 27 at 4.00 pm in the  
Revoltella Museum Auditorium.

The accompanying Symposium on Perception and Cognition will begin on  
Thursday, October 26 at 3 pm and it will include additional selected  
oral presentations (Thursday afternoon), an invited workshop (Friday  
morning), and an open poster session (Friday lunch time). The  
Symposium will be held at the Psychology Department.  Social  
activities will include a buffet lunch at the Friday poster session,  
sponsored by Cambridge Research Systems, and a social dinner on  
Friday night.

If you wish to contribute a presentation to the Symposium, please  
send us a title and a brief abstract. Traditionally, the Symposium is  
open to all areas and approaches to the study of cognition,  has no  
registration fee, and runs on an informal, relaxed pace. Please  
submit the title of your contribution by electronic mail to either of  
the following addresses: nick at psico.univ.trieste.it  or  
battagli at univ.trieste.it as soon as possible and no later than  
October 1. Please also specify whether you would like to be  
considered for oral presentations or have a need for special  
demonstration equipment.

Workshop on “Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action”
The lecture will be accompanied by an invited workshop. The following  
specialists have agreed to contribute a presentation: Claudio  
Galletti (Bologna), Elisabetta Làdavas (Bologna), Laila Craighero  
(Ferrara), Frank Durgin (Swarthmore), David Westwood (Dalhousie), and  
Volker Franz (Giessen).  The workhop will run from 8.30 to 12.30 am  
on Friday  27. Everyone is invited to join the discussion.

GUIDELINES FOR SYMPOSIUM SUBMISSIONS
Oral presentations
There will be space for 10-12 oral presentations only.  Presentations  
will be selected based on the timing of submission and the general  
interest of the topic. Each participant will have 15-20 minutes to  
present the paper, including discussion.
Posters
Submitted posters will be grouped thematically and displayed for at  
least three hours. Recommended poster size is 100 x 140 cm (hor x  
vert). Posters should be readable from a distance of 2 meters.

Nicola Bruno & Paolo Battaglini, Symposium Organizers
Walter Gerbino, Kanizsa Lecture Organizer

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      __  BRAIN Center for Integrative Neuroscience
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