[visionlist] 2011 OSA Vision Meeting - Early Registration Deadline - August 11!!!

[editor at visionscience.com]

Registration is open for 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.  Registration is $75 for students and postdocs, $225 for others, until August 11.  After that date, it will be $100 for students and postdocs, $275 for others.  Online registration closes August 26, 2011.  

The link for registration, as well as hotel information can be found athttp://www.osavisionmeeting.org/2011/conf/registration.php  You do not need to be an OSA member to register, but you will need to register with the OSA website to proceed with the registration process.  Also note that there is a banquet on Friday night, at a cost of $50 per person. This must be reserved at the same time as you register online.

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. 

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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

“What the Brain Doesn’t See”
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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