[visionlist] AIC-37, Jan 29-Feb 3, 2012 Breckenridge

[George Sperling]

The program for the 37th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference follows
below.  The conference will meet from Jan 29 to Feb 3 in 
Breckenridge, CO.
The conference is open to all, but attendance is limited by the size
of the conference room to 55, so advance registration is desirable.
Information on how to register, hotel arrangements, and other details
are available on the AIC webpage  http://aris.ss.uci.edu/HIPLab/AIC

             THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
                   The Village at Breckenridge, Colorado
                       January 29 - February 3, 2012
        Organizer:  George Sperling, University of California, Irvine

                                  Program

Sunday, January 29:  5:00 - 5:30 pm **Reception** Registration, 
Snacks & Refreshments.

   Sunday, January 29:  5:30 - 8:00 pm  Sunday Night Miscellany
Rich Shiffrin, Indiana U.  Infomercial on back-country skiing.
Shaw Ketels, U. Colorado, Boulder.  Attentional focus and complex 
motor skill acquisition: The case of snowboarding.
Erica Okada, U. Hawaii.  The private and public benefits of green 
products and the price/quality tradeoff.
Jeff Mulligan, NASA Ames Research Center.  Cognitive engineering 
for next generation air traffic control towers.
Misha Pavel, NSF.  Fundamental scientific challenges in 
transforming health care: Model-based approaches.
Roger Ratcliff, Ohio State U.  TBA.

   Monday, January 30:  4:00 - 8:00 pm  Visual Neuroscience 
(Organizer: Bill Geisler)
Farran Briggs, UC Davis.  Synaptic and circuit mechanisms for 
spatial attentional modulation.
John Reynolds,  Salk Institute.  Neural mechanisms of attention.
Eyal Seidemann, U. Texas, Austin.  Attentional modulations, 
spatial gating, & limited resources in primate V1.
Bill Geisler, U. Texas, Austin.  Toward a neurophysiology-based 
model of detectability in natural images.
Alex Huk, U. Texas, Austin.  Encoding and decoding of signals for 
perceptual decisions in posterior parietal cortex.
Adam Kohn, U. Texas, Austin.  Adaptation in the primate motion 
processing stream.

   Tuesday, January 31:  4:00 - 8:00 pm  Higher-Level Vision I 
(Organizer: Zygmunt Pizlo)
Larry Cormack, U. Texas, Austin.  The binocular processing of 
three-dimensional motion.
Zygmunt Pizlo,  Purdue U.  The role of a priori constraints in 
binocular shape perception.
Casper Erkelens, Utrecht U.  Perceptual rivalry in monocular and 
binocular vision.
Steve Shevell, U. Chicago.  Beware your inner chromatic compass: 
Binding errors of color and motion-direction.
Phil Kellman, UCLA.  Unifying and applying perceptual learning.
Zhong-Lin Lu, USC.  Functions and mechanisms of perceptual learning.

   Wednesday, February 1:  4:00 - 8:00 pm  Higher-Level Vision II
Cory Miller, UCSD.  Responses of marmoset prefrontal cortex 
neurons during natural vocal communication.
Sandy Pentland,  MIT.  Honest signals and the social fabric.
David Knill, U. Rochester.  Learning scene statistics for 
perception and action.
Ben Backus, SUNY.  Motion from structure.
Deyue Yu, Ohio State U.  Crowding in peripheral reading.
Bosco Tjan, USC.  Object identification in the periphery -- a 
case of mistaken priors.

   Thursday, February 2:  4:00 - 8:00 pm Cognition
Michael Lee, UCI.  Searching structured environments: Grounds for 
limited search in decision-making.
Rich Shiffrin, Indiana U.  A dynamic model for recognition decisions.
Barbara Dosher, UC Irvine.  Precision of representations in 
spatially cued attention.
James Elder, York U.  Attention is surprising.
John Tsotsos, York U.  Revisiting visual routines: Towards an 
executive controller for visual attention.
George Sperling, UC Irvine.  The resolution and cognitive 
capacity of visual spatial attention.
   **Brief Business Meeting

   Friday, February 3:  4:00 - 8:00 pm  Friday Miscellany
Justin Halberda, Johns Hopkins U.  An ensemble group is selected 
and processed as a single item.
Xiaoping Hu, Emory U.  Time-frequency dynamics of brain resting 
state effective connectivity.
Wolfgang Pauli, U. Colorado, Boulder.  Neural substrates of 
changepoint detection and reinforcement learning in foraging 
behavior.
Nicholas Port, Indiana U.  The development of microsaccades from 
toddling to retiring.
Holly Jimison, OHSU.  Big data: The modeling and inference 
challenges of monitoring of health behaviors in the home.
Patricia Cheng, UCLA.  Logical reasoning.

* * * 8:20pm Banquet  * * *

   Attendees
John Antrobus, CUNY
Tom Busey, Indiana U.
Eric Mais, U. Hawaii
Gail McKoon, Ohio State U.
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