[visionlist] 14th AVA Christmas meeting (UK): Programme

[Meese, Timothy S]

The full programme (15 talks and 41 posters) for this year's AVA Christmas
meeting (UK) is shown below.

Further details can be found at the conference site: www.theAVA.net/conf,
where you will be able to find abstracts under the item 'Presentations and
authors'. 

If you plan to attend this conference, please remember to register and pay
before you arrive (details at the conference website)!

We look forward to seeing you on the 18th.

Best wishes
Tim Meese.

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Programme
14th AVA Christmas Meeting

University of Bristol UK
Social Sciences Complex
12a Priory Road
Bristol BS8 1TU

18th Dec 2009

10.00
Registration and Coffee

10.50-11.00
Welcome
Tim S Meese, Tom Troscianko

 
TALKS

Chair: Tom Freeman
11.00 ­ 11.30 Invited Talk
Towards a new theory of figure-ground organization
Zygmunt Pizlo, S Sebastian, J Catrambone, T Sawada

11.30 ­ 11.45 
Are interactions between static- and motion-defined global form revealed by
cross-adaptation?
David R Badcock, J Edwin Dickinson, Limin Han, Jason Bell

11.45 ­ 12.00
Children exploit multiple visual cues for speed, not accuracy
Marko Nardini, Rachael Bedford, Meera Desai, Denis Mareschal

12.00 ­ 12.15
Part-report for successive visual inputs
Wayne Smith, John Mollon, Hannah Smithson

12.15 ­ 12.30
Changes in direction of motion attract attention
Christina Jayne Howard, Alex O Holcombe

12.30 ­ 1.30
Posters and Lunch 

Chair: Tom Troscianko
1.30 ­ 2.00 CRS Guest lecture
Phantom limbs and synaesthesia: inter-sensory interactions as a key to
understanding the brain (DVD presentation)
Vilayanur Ramachandran

2.00 ­ 2.15
More GABA, less distraction: A neurochemical correlate of variability in
human eye movement control
Petroc Sumner, Richard Edden, Aline Bompas, Krish Singh

2.15 ­ 2.30
Perceptual biases reveal characteristics of neural coding mechanisms for
multisensory timing
Neil Roach, James Heron, David Whitaker, Paul McGraw

2.30 ­ 2.45
Neural activity in higher dorsal visual areas relates to the discrimination
of disparity-defined depth position
Andrew E Welchman, Matthew L Patten

2.45 ­ 3.00
A necessary role for the lateral occipital cortex and the occipital face
area in the rotational invariance of shape processing
Dietrich Samuel Schwarzkopf, Juha Silvanto, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Geraint
Rees 

3.00 ­ 3.30
Posters and Coffee 

Chair: Josh Solomon
3.30 ­ 4.00 Invited Talk
A couple of challenges for visual perception under uncertainty
Pascal Mamassian  

4.00 ­ 4.15
Learning reconfigures the decoding of sensory signals for fine
discriminations
Ben S Webb, Neil W Roach, Gaelle S L Coullon

4.15 ­ 4.30
Axis cueing effects under noise masking imply that symmetry discrimination
is an active two-stage process
Christopher W Tyler

4.30 ­ 4.45
Influence of contrast gain changes on the apparent duration of a visual
stimulus
Aurelio Bruno, Alan Johnston

4.45 ­ 5.00
Perceptual grouping of ambiguous motion
Stuart Anstis  

5.00 ­ Late 
Posters and Wine Reception

 
POSTERS

1. What is happening behind my neighbour's fence? -Investigating our ability
to use unmatched regions in a binocular scene
Katharina M Zeiner, Julie M Harris

2. Implementing curve detectors for contour integration
Keith Anthony May, Robert Hess

3. Non-linear global summation in the perception of non-circular contours
Gunnar Schmidtmann, Graeme J Kennedy, Harry S Orbach, Gunter Loffler

4. Weber's Law for circle diameters; not areas
Joshua Adam Solomon, Charles Chubb

5. Object-position binding in visual short-term memory for serially
presented unfamiliar stimuli
Raju Prasad Sapkota, Shahina Pardhan, Ian van der Linde

6. Filter transformations for shift-insensitive feature detection
Miles Hansard, Radu Horaud

7. Temporal precision of a contour-selective mechanism
Sarah Hancock, David McGovern, Jonathan W Peirce

8. Mach bands: multi-scale spatial filtering and co-operative coding of
edges and bars
Stuart Wallis, Mark Georgeson

9. Misestimation of light source elevation alters lightness judgments
Yoana Dimitrova Dimitrova, Peter William McOwan, Alan Johnston

10. Interactions between light-from-above and convexity priors in visual
development
Rhiannon Laura Thomas, Marko Nardini, Denis Mareschal

11. Task-specific perceptual learning of texture detection and
identification
Zahra Hussain, Allison B Sekuler, Patrick J Bennett

12. Area summation of contrast is scale invariant and occurs over at least 8
carrier cycles
Daniel H Baker, Tim S Meese

 13. Isotropic masking reveals losses in spatial frequency specificity at
high temporal frequencies: An isotropic third temporal channel?
John Henly Hobday, Keith Langley

14. Direct tilt after-effect increases with test duration when testing at
high temporal frequencies
Veronique Lefebvre, Keith Langley

15. The Riesz transform and linear summation across orientation tuned
filters for phase dependent, phase independent and second-order spatial
orientation computations
Keith Langley, Veronique Lefebvre, Stephen J Anderson

 16. Peeling plaids apart: Context counteracts cross-orientation contrast
masking
Elliot Freeman, Preet Verghese

 17. Perceived orientation: The tilt illusion dominates parafoveal vision,
but the periphery is dominated by crowding
Isabelle Mareschal, Joshua A Solomon

 18. Do lower visual cues provide online control for reaching and grasping
while standing?
Valentina Graci, Marina Bloj, John Buckley

 19. Post-saccadic memory of the location and identity of previously viewed
objects
I-Fan Lin, Andrei Gorea

20. What determines the direction of microsaccades?
Frouke Hermens, Robin Walker

21. Beta suppression in human extra-striate cortex reflects eye position
during pursuit eye movements
Ben Dunkley, Tom Freeman, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Krish Singh

22. Supplementary motor area activations in unconscious inhibition of
voluntary action
Frederic Boy, Petroc Sumner, Krish Singh

23. The neural correlates of visuospatial oculomotor and perceptual
extrapolation
Marc Samuel Tibber, Ayse Saygin, Simon Grant, Dean Melmoth, Geraint Rees,
Michael J Morgan

24. A critical test for decision models using MEG
Aline Bompas, Iain Gilchrist, Suresh Muthukumaraswamy, Krish Singh, Petroc
Sumner

25. Electrophysiological correlates of perceptual suppression during dynamic
ocular accommodation
Sven Mucke, Velitchko Manahilov, Niall C Strang, Dirk Seidel

26. Variation of chromatic discrimination thresholds with luminance and
state of chromatic adaptation
Ben Jennings

27. Depth perception of the chromatic Mach card (CMC): Influence of colour
gradients and outline
Glen Harding, Marina Bloj, Julie Harris

28. Characterising negative phototaxis in brown planaria
Claire V Hutchinson, Colin Davidson, Darrel Barnes, Rachel Sherlock, Claire
L Gibson, Andrew Young

29. Quantitative evaluation of Ishihara and Rabkin colour deficiency tests
using multispectral colour analysis
Maris Ozolinsh, Sergejs Fomins, Michèle Colomb

30. A surprising influence of retinal size on distance judgments
Arthur J Lugtigheid, Andrew E Welchman

31. Amodal memorial completion: Masking novel pictorial shapes reveals a
role for visual short-term memory in the completion of partially occluded
objects
Simon Davies, Peter Walker

32. The role of presentation order effects in adaptation based duration
compression
Inci Ayhan, Aurelio Bruno, Alan Johnston

33. Perceived motion from illusory brightening and spatial gradients
Peter Scarfe, Alan Johnston

34. Form information in the perception of biological motion heading
M Thirkettle, N E Scott-Samuel, C P Benton

35. Octopaminergic modulation of velocity coding in a blowfly optic
flow-processing interneuron
Kit D Longden, Holger G Krapp

36. Optimisation of speed perception in virtual environments by manipulation
of the geometric field of view
Cyriel Diels, Andrew M Parkes

37. The train window illusion - people cannot locate the projection of an
object on the surface of a mirror
Rebecca Lawson

38. Global motion processing is impaired in patients with Alzheimer's
disease
Gillian Porter, John Wattam-Bell, Antony Bayer, Judy Haworth, Andrea Tales

39. Visual gaze behaviour of adults and older adults at a pedestrian
crossing
Christopher David Egan, Alexandra Willis

40. Location, location, location: Examining spatial vision and spatial
working memory in schizophrenia
Shahrzad Mazhari, Johanna Badcock, Flavie Waters, Milan Dragovic, David R
Badcock, Assen Jablensky

41. Affordance processing in Parkinson's disease
Dorothy Cowie, Patricia Limousin, Amy Peters, Brian L Day

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