[visionlist] CALL FOR TRIESTE SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS

[Paolo Bernardis]

Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition: Call for Contributions

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                                   19th KANIZSA LECTURE

                                                AND THE

    TRIESTE SYMPOSIUM ON PERCEPTION AND COGNITION

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Dear colleagues,

the Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition and the 19th Kanizsa Lecture are coming up. It is our pleasure to welcome you in Trieste, Italy, 24 November. 

The Symposium on Perception and Cognition will begin on Thursday 24 november, 9 am, at the Department of Psychology "Gaetano Kanizsa", via Sant'Anastasio 12. Traditionally, the Symposium is open to all areas and approaches to the study of cognition, has no registration fee, and runs on an informal, relaxed pace.

This year we organize a one-day symposium, with an oral session during the morning (from 9 am to 1 pm), and a poster session during the launch (from 1.30 pm to 4.00 pm). However, if we will receive a lot of contribution we will continue the oral session on Friday morning (from 9 am to 1 pm).

This 19th Kanizsa Lecture will be delivered by Prof. James R. POMERANTZ, Rice University, Houston TX, in the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum of Modern Art, via Diaz 27, in the center of Trieste, on Thursday 24 November, starting at 4.30 pm.

If you wish to contribute a presentation to the Symposium, please send us a title, and specify whether you would like to be considered for a talk or a poster.
Please submit the title of your contribution by electronic mail to the following address: pbernardis at units.it. 
Please also specify whether you need any special equipment.
More information about the program will be available here:
http://www.psico.univ.trieste.it/~bernardi/index_TSPC2011.html


GUIDELINES FOR THE AUTHORS:

Talk (in English):
You will have 15-20 minutes for your presentation, including
discussion.

Posters (in English):
Posters will be grouped thematically and displayed for two hours. A surface of 100 cm x 140 cm will be available for each poster. Posters should be readable from a distance of two meters.


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The 19th KANIZSA LECTURE

Lecturer: Prof. James R. POMERANTZ (Rice University, Houston TX)
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~pomeran/JRP/Home.html

Title: The perception of visual configurations and their parts: A theory of basic Gestalts

Abstract: Visual perception is commonly thought to begin with the registration of basic features such as orientation, color, motion, and depth.  Humans are good telling horizontal lines from  verticals: | from – .  Yet we are even better telling + from  = even though they too differ only in the orientation of a single line segment.  How can we perceive whole configurations more quickly and accurately than any of their component parts? I present a new theory of basic Gestalts – conjunctions of parts that act like super-basic features – and review data supporting this theory drawn from converging sources including Garner Interference, redundancy losses, configural superiority effects, false pop-out, and negative search slopes.  I describe a way to define Gestalts in terms of emergent features and suggest a new and possibly more principled approach that builds Gestalts from the ground up and measures them on a uniform scale.  Finally I discuss some recent neuroimaging results that help localize brain areas involved in configural processing.


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