[visionlist] VSS 2011 Annual Meeting Information

[Vision Sciences Society]

Greetings, 

Plans for the VSS 2011 Annual Meeting are well underway. The meeting will be
held at the Naples Grande Hotel in Naples, Florida May 6 – 11, 2011. The
deadline for early (discounted) registration is Thursday, February 24. To
register for the meeting, go to
<http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html.

 

Membership

If you haven’t done so already now is the time to renew your VSS 2011
Membership, go to  <http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/>
http://www.visionsciences1.org/vss_public/  

Keynote 
This year’s Keynote Speaker is Daniel M. Wolpert, Professor of Engineering
at the University of Cambridge, “Probabilistic models of human sensorimotor
control.”  Details can be found at
<http://www.visionsciences.org/keynote.html>
http://www.visionsciences.org/keynote.html. Time and date TBD.

Symposia 
The meeting begins Friday afternoon at 12 noon with member-initiated
symposia.  This year’s symposia are:

 

Prediction in Visual Processing

Organizers: Jacqueline M. Fulvio, University of Minnesota and Paul R.
Schrater, University of Minnesota

 

Mechanisms of adaptation in different visual cortical areas:
electrophysiology, functional imaging and computational modeling.

Organizer: Rufin Vogels, Department Neuroscience, K.U. Leuven Medical
School, Leuven, Belgium

 

Models of Perceptual Learning: Combining Psychophysics, Computation and
Neuroscience

Organizer: Alexander A. Petrov, Department of Psychology, Ohio State
University

 

Ongoing fluctuation of neural activity and its relationship to visual
perception

Organizer: Hakwan Lau, Columbia University, Donders Institute, Netherlands

 

Perception of Emotion from Body Expression: Neural basis and computational
mechanisms

Organizer: Martin A. Giese, Hertie Inst. f. Clinical Brain Research , CIN,
Tübingen, Germany 

 

Integrating local motion information

Organizer: Duje Tadin, University of Rochester, Center for Visual Science 

 

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



ARVO at VSS Symposium: “What the retina tells us about central visual
processing”

This co-sponsored symposium will be presented on Friday afternoon prior to
the Opening Night Reception and Poster Session. The speakers include Greg D.
Field, PhD, of the Salk Institute, Jay Neitz, PhD, of the University of
Washington and Jonathan B. Demb, PhD, of the University of Michigan. 

 

Hotel 
Rooms at the Naples Grande are filling up. If you haven’t reserved your
room, go to  <http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html>
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 
2011 Membership Renewal: due now

VSS YIA Nominations close: 1/14/2011
Call for Nominations to the VSS Board: 2/1/2011
Call for Demos: 2/4/2011
Notices of Accepted Abstracts Sent: 2/4/2011
Early Registration Deadline: 2/24/2011

 

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