[visionlist] 2011 OSA Vision Meeting - Abstract Deadline Extended!!

[Joseph Carroll]

We are pleased to announce the 11th Annual Optical Society of America Vision
Meeting, scheduled to take place at the University of Washington, Seattle
from the 16th to the 18th of September, 2011. Abstract submission is now
open, and has been extended to July 11, 2011
(http://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2011/conf/submit.php) Registration will be
open in the coming days, with an early-bird registration deadline of August
1, 2011.

Since 2001, the OSA Fall Vision Meeting has grown as a high-quality,
low-cost conference focused on all aspects of the visual system. This year,
we return to the University of Washington, Seattle with its thriving
Psychology, Ophthalmology, Biological Structure, and Physiology & Biophysics
departments. 

This year's meeting includes several invited sessions (listed below), two
contributed talk sessions, and a variety of contributed poster
presentations.  In addition, thanks to generous support from OSA and
Cambridge Research Systems we are pleased to announce the return of "The
Classics of Vision Science" in which four distinguished vision scientists
will each present one of their classic papers from a personal perspective.
This year we are honored to have Gerald Westheimer, John Robson, Tom
Cornsweet, and Anita Hendrickson taking part in this event. Last, but not
least, we are pleased to announce that Professor Dennis Dacey from the
University of Washington has been chosen to deliver this year¹s Boynton
Lecture, named in honor of Robert M. Boynton.

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Connectivity Maps in the Brain
The emerging field of connectomics has the potential to revolutionize our
understanding of anatomical and functional neural networks. This session
will delve into the current investigations of the connectivity of networks
from retina to cortex.
Moderator: Alyssa Brewer
Speakers: Robert Marc, EJ Chichilnisky, David VanEssen, Bob Dougherty

Rehabilitation and Adaptation to Visual Impairment
Understanding the visual consequences of injury and disease, as well as the
plasticity of the brain itself, provides new insight for the development of
rehabilitation approaches that encourage and improve adaptation and daily
function. The work presented in this session explores adaptations to low
vision, blindness and traumatic brain injury, the last of which has seen a
marked increase due to the improvised explosive devices in modern warfare.
Moderator: Susana Chung
Speakers: Gordon Legge, Krystel Huxlin, Suzanne Wickum, Eli Peli

³What the Brain Doesn¹t See²
William James described the visual world of a baby "as one great blooming,
buzzing confusion" and suggested that the role of a mature visual system is
to filter out distracting, irrelevant stimuli.  We are largely unaware of
the degree to which this occurs all the time. In a few cases, however, there
are percepts which are suppressed intermittently, allowing us to gain some
insight into the underlying processes.  In this session we examine four
different examples of phenomena in which the brain actively suppresses
suprathreshold stimuli.
Moderator: Jeff Mulligan
Speakers: Dov Sagi, Randolph Blake, George Sperling, Stephen Macknik

The Aging Visual System
As life expectancy continues to rise, there is an increasing desire to
better understand age-related changes in the visual system. This session
will explore current understandings of aging in topics ranging from spatial
and color vision, to cortical organization, to neural mechanisms of memory
and attention.
Moderator: Marilyn Schneck
Speakers: Sarah Elliott, Hugh Wilson, Allison Sekuler, Tony Morland

Cortical Pathways of Color Vision
The first stages of primate color vision, the transduction of light by three
classes of cones and the subsequent recombination of these signals into cone
opponent processes, are now understood in broad principle.  The challenge
ahead is to develop a better understanding of the way color is processed in
the cortex.  This symposium will highlight recent work that investigates
cortical color processing, with talks that feature different physiological
approaches and analyses across multiple cortical areas.
Moderator: Karl Gengenfurtner
Speakers: Greg Horwitz, Ann Roe, Soumya Chatterjee, Colin Clifford
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We look forward to welcoming you in the Pacific Northwest!

Joe Carroll (Chair, OSA Vision and Color Division)
Steve Buck (Seattle 2011 Local Organizing Committee)
Ione Fine (Seattle 2011 Local Organizing Committee)
Jay Neitz (Seattle 2011 Local Organizing Committee)

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