[visionlist] ECVP 2007 Arezzo, Announcement of symposia

[Stefano Baldassi]

European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)

27-31 August 2007, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org

Announcement of Symposia



During the 30th European Conference on Visual Perception (27-31  
August 2007, Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy) the regular program will be  
intermingled with six symposia on topics of particular relevance and  
originality. Here we present them and announce their speakers. The  
webpage of the symposia, where you will find abstracts and the  
introduction of each symposium is:
http://www.ecvp2007.org/Page.cfm?id=107
There is no specific rank in the sorting of the following list.


- Symposium 1.
Category learning in Man, Monkey and Machine.
Chair: Alumit Ishai, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Keynote talk: Learning to recognize novel object categories from  
examples
Shimon Ullman
Talk: Category learning is modulated by visual similarity
Alumit Ishai
Talk: Memory system interactions in category learning
Russell A. Poldrack
Talk: Visual learning and categorical decisions in the human brain
Zoe Kourtzi
Talk: Categorical perception of faces by human and monkey observers
Gregor Rainer

- Symposium 2.
Where perception meets memory: visual priming
Chairs: Gianluca Campana, University of Padova, Padova, Italy & Arni  
Kristjansson, University of Iceland, Reykjavic, Iceland.

Keynote talk: A distinctive short-term implicit memory system
Ken Nakayama & Arni Kristjansson
Talk: The cortical basis of repetition priming
Alan Cowey
Talk: Remembering visual motion: contribution of neurons in area MT  
and in prefrontal cortex (PFC)
Tatiana Pasternak
Talk: Neural correlates of object priming: An fMRI study
Maria Stylianou-Korsnes, Svein Magnussen & John Gabrieli
Talk: Repetition effects in attention
Anne P. Hillstrom

- Symposium 3.
Features, objects and categories: Mapping the maps in IT cortex
Chair: Leslie G. Ungerleider, Laboratory of Brain & Cognition,  
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Keynote talk: Inferotemporal cortex and visual object recognition
Keiji Tanaka
Talk: A specialized system for detecting and measuring faces in the  
macaque temporal lobe
Doris Tsao
Talk: The role of visual features in ‘object selective’ IT maps, in  
humans and monkeys
Roger Tootell
Talk: Critical elements in human object perception
Rafael Malach
Talk: How is ventral temporal cortex organized? Clues from the study  
of “tools”
Alex Martin

- Symposium 4.
 From motor production to visual action perception
Chairs: Antonino Casile and Martin A. Giese, ARL, Dept. of Cognitive  
Neurology,Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen,  
Germany

Keynote talk I: Mirror neurons and the cognitive properties of the  
motor system.
Leonardo Fogassi
Talk: Muscle synergies as building blocks for motor production.
Andrea d'Avella
Talk: Fitt's law in action perception
Günther Knoblich
Talk: Geometric approaches to the study of action-perception coupling
Tamar Flash
Keynote talk II: Perception and action planning: Strong interactions
Wolfgang Prinz

- Symposium 5.
3D Cue-integration: putting the pieces together
Chair: Fulvio Domini, Department of Cognitive and Linguistic  
Sciences, Brown University.

Keynote talk: Are perceptual judgments of different surface  
attributes based on the same relative weighting of depth cues?
James T. Todd.
Talk: Representational constraints in surface perception: why the  
prior for coplanar reflectance change must be zero.
Dhanraj Vishwanath
Talk: Robust Bayesian cue integration: The role of priors in non- 
linear cue integration and learning
David Knill
Talk: Combining Information to Perceive 3d Layout.
Marty Banks
Talk: A novel approach to the problem of cue integration.
Fulvio Domini, Corrado Caudek


- Symposium 6.
Correlations between visual psychophysics, neurophysiology and art.  
Symposium in honor of Adriana Fiorentini and Lamberto Maffei.
Chairs: Lothar Spillmann, University of Freiburg, Germany & John  
Werner, University of California Davis, USA

Talk: The legacy of the Pisa Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia del C.N.R.
Lothar Spillmann
Talk: Arte e Cervello: Aging of the lens and consequences for color  
perception in art and the brain.
John S. Werner
Talk: Development and plasticity of the visual system
Leo Chalupa
Talk: From receptive fields to perception: surfaces, brightness and form
Concetta Morrone
Talk: Bridging the gap: Electrophysiology of human vision
Donatella Spinelli


Thanks for your attention,
			ci vediamo ad Arezzo


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Stefano Baldassi, PhD
Executive Chair of ECVP 2007 Arezzo

c/o University of Florence, Department of Psychology
Via di San Niccolò, 93
50125 Florence, Italy

www.ecvp2007.org






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