[visionlist] VSS 2008 Annual Meeting Information

[Shawna Lampkin]

Greetings,

Plans for the VSS 2008 Annual Meeting are underway. The meeting will be held
at the Naples Grande Hotel in Naples, Florida May 9 - 14, 2008. The deadline
for early (discounted) registration is Thursday, February 28. To register
for the meeting, go to  <http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html. 


The meeting begins Friday afternoon at 1:00 pm with member-initiated
symposia ( <http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html). This year's symposia are:

 

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Perceptual expectations and the neural processing of complex images 

Organizer: Bharathi Jagadeesh

                                                                     

Cortical organization and dynamics for visual perception and beyond 

Organizer: Zoe Kourtzi

 

Crowding 

Organizer: Denis G. Pelli

 

Visual Memory and the Brain 

Organizer: Marian Berryhill

 

3:30 - 5:30 pm

Action for perception: functional significance of eye movements for vision 

Organizers: Anna Montagnini and Miriam Spering

 

The past, present, and future of the written word 

Organizers: Frederic Gosselin and Bosco S. Tjan

 

Surface material perception 

Organizer: Roland W Fleming

 

Bayesian models applied to perceptual behavior 

Organizer: Peter Battaglia

 

For complete symposia information, go to:
<http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html.

 

The rooms at the Naples Grande are filling up quickly, so if you haven't
made your reservation yet, we suggest you make one soon. To reserve your
room, go to  <http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html and follow the links for online
reservations. If you're looking for an alternative to the meeting hotel, we
have negotiated discounted rates at two additional hotels, both ~1 mile from
the Naples Grande. See http://visionsciences.org/hotel-overflows.html  for
additional information.

 

 

Upcoming Dates

Call for Demos: 2/4/08

Notices of Accepted Abstracts Sent: 2/12/08

VSS Schedule Posted to Website: 2/20/08

Early Registration: 2/28/08

 

 

See you in Naples!

 

 

 

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