[visionlist] VSS 2010 Annual Meeting Information

[Vision Sciences Society]

Greetings, 

Plans for the VSS 2010 Annual Meeting are well underway. The meeting will be
held at the Naples Grande Hotel in Naples, Florida May 7 - 12, 2010. The
deadline for early (discounted) registration is Thursday, February 25. To
register for the meeting, go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html.

Keynote 
This year's Keynote Speaker is Carla Shatz, a professor of biology and
neurobiology and director of Bio-X at Stanford University. Her talk,
"Releasing the Brake on Ocular Dominance Plasticity," will be presented on
Saturday, May 8. Further information and an abstract of her address are at
http://www.visionsciences.org/keynote.html.

Symposia 
The meeting begins Friday afternoon at 1:00 pm with member-initiated
symposia (exact schedule tbd). This year's symposia are:

                                                                           
Dissociations between top-down attention and visual awareness
Organizers: Jeroen van Boxtel and Nao Tsuchiya


Representation in the Visual System by Summary Statistics
Organizer: Ruth Rosenholtz


Nature vs. Nurture in Vision: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development
Organizer: Faraz Farzin


Understanding the interplay between reward and attention, and its effects on
visual perception and action
Organizers: Vidhya Navalpakkam, Leonardo Chelazzi and Jan Theeuwes


Integrative mechanisms for 3D vision: combining psychophysics, computation
and neuroscience
Organizer: Andrew Glennerster


New Methods for Delineating the Brain and Cognitive Mechanisms of Attention
Organizer: George Sperling 

For complete symposium details, go to:
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia.html.

Hotel 
Rooms at the Naples Grande are filling up. If you haven't reserved your
room, go to http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html and follow the links
for online reservations.

 

Benefits of staying at the meeting hotel include:

. Complimentary Internet -Reservations for VSS attendees now include FREE
Internet in guest rooms.
. Networking -Make the most of your conference by meeting with your
colleagues from around the world.
. Convenience -Just an elevator ride away from the sessions and events.
. Support VSS -Help us help you! We earn discounted meeting space, which
keeps your registration fees down.
. Complimentary Nightly Shuttle Service -Shuttles will run nightly from the
Naples Grande with service to downtown and other hot spots around Naples.


Upcoming Dates 
2010 Membership Renewal: due now
Call for Demos: 1/29/2010
Call for Nominations to the VSS Board: 2/1/2010
Notices of Accepted Abstracts Sent: 2/12/2010
Early Registration Deadline: 2/25/2010

 

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