[visionlist] Conference Announcement: Cortical Mechanisms of Vision (York U, Toronto, June 2007)

[Doug Crawford]

Preliminary Conference Announcement:

Please hold the dates of June 19-23, 2007 for the next York Centre for 
Vision Research (CVR) International Conference, to be held at the main 
campus of York University, Toronto, Canada. Details on registration, 
accommodations, travel, conference web site, and call for poster 
abstracts will follow at a later date.

Tentative schedule:

CVR Conference 2007: Cortical Mechanisms of Vision

Organizers: Hugh R. Wilson & Doug Crawford

Tuesday, June 19
Evening reception and registration

Wednesday, June 20
Morning: Cortical Mechanisms of Object Recognition (Chair: F. Wilkinson)
      Kari Hoffman (York)
      Bruno Rossion (Université Catholique de Louvain)
      Kalanit Grill-Spector (Stanford)
      TBA
Afternoon: Cortical Mechanisms of Motion Processing (Chair: H. Wilson)
      David Bradley (U of Chicago)
      Charles Duffy (U of Rochester)
      Tony Movshon (NYU)
      Greg DeAngelis (Washington University, St. Louis)
Poster Sessions
Evening Free

Thursday, June 21
Morning: Parietal-Frontal Transformations for Visually Guided Reach 
(Chair: L. Sergio)
       Lauren Sergio (York)
      Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer (La Sapienza, Rome)
      Bijan Pessaran (NYU)
      Steve Wise (NIH)
Afternoon: Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Attention (Tsotsos)
      Max Hopf (Magdeburg, Germany)
      John Maunsell (Baylor)
      Leonardo Chelazzi (Verona)
      Maurizio Corbetta (Washington University, St. Louis)
Poster Sessions
Evening Free

Friday, June 22
Morning: Cortical Mechanisms for Eye Movements (Chair: J.D. Crawford)
Jeff Schall (Vanderbilt)
      Steve Lisberger (UCSF)
      Martin Pare (Queens U)
      Dora Angelaki (Washington University, St. Louis)

Afternoon: Top-down Influences of Fronto-Parietal Cortex on Vision 
(Chair: M. Fallah)
     Maz Fallah (York)      
     James Bisley (UCLA)
     Joe DeSouza (York)

Lab tours
Conference Banquet

Saturday, June 23
Morning: Visual Integration and Consciousness (Chairs: Wilson & Crawford)
    Christof Koch (Cal Tech)
    Frank Tong (Vanderbilt)
    Mel Goodale (U of Western Ontario)

Afternoon Free
Evening: Conference Barbeque & Party

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J. Douglas Crawford
Canada Research Chair in Visuomotor Neuroscience,
York Centre for Vision Research & CIHR Group for Action and Perception,
Professor of Psychology, Biology, and Kinesiology & Health Sciences
York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
Web: http://www.yorku.ca/jdc
Phone: 416 736-2100 x 88621
Fax:  416 736-5857
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