[visionlist] OPAM 2012: Submission deadline of July 15th is nearing! Announcing new awards sponsored by Visual Cognition

[Carly J. Leonard]

 ******************************* OPAM 2012  *******************************
20th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory
http://www.opam.net/opam2012/

November 15th, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Hilton Hotel

Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Tarr, Carnegie Mellon University
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The OPAM conference is dedicated to issues in object perception, visual
attention, and visual memory.  OPAM is a forum primarily for scientists
early in their careers, such as graduate students or post-docs who do not
yet have the opportunity to present at the Psychonomic Society meeting.
The conference embraces a diversity of approaches, including psychophysics,
eye-tracking, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.


The deadline for submissions to OPAM is nearing.  Online submissions are
now open and will be accepted until *July 15th, 2012*:
http://www.opam.net/opam2012/submissions.php


*New Awards! *This year we will be offering awards to recognize the best
research presented at OPAM, thanks to the generous sponsorship of *Visual
Cognition*.  Every presenter will be automatically eligible for these
awards.  Throughout the day, presentations will be judged by a panel of
Associate and Consulting Editors from the Visual Cognition Editorial
Board.  We will announce the winners after the keynote address.  The Best
Paper (that is, talk) will receive $300 and the Best Poster will receive
$200.


We will once again award $250 travel grants to three presenters based on
financial need and submission quality.
Nominations are due on *September 1, 2012*. For more details, see:
http://www.opam.net/opam2012/travel.php


 *** Important note *** Thanks to the enthusiasm of the community in
presenting at OPAM, the conference has grown rapidly in recent years.  In
the event that the number of submitted abstracts exceeds our capacity
estimates, OPAM will create a waitlist and make final decisions about
acceptance of these waitlisted abstracts after we have confirmed our
allowable poster space.  In determining waitlisted submissions, we will
consider scope, status of the presenter, and submission quality.  Please
feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this process before
submitting.

Sincerely,
The 2012 OPAM organizers
Carly Leonard, Melissa Võ, Michael Mack, & Josh Cosman


Thanks to our current 2012 sponsors:

Arrington Research (http://www.arringtonresearch.com/)
Cambridge Research Systems (http://www.crsltd.com/)
 Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/)
University of Iowa, Department of Psychology (
http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/opam/)
Johns Hopkins University, Vision Sciences Group (
http://www.jhuvisionsciencesgroup.org/)
Microsoft Studios (http://www.mgsuserresearch.com/)
 National Eye Institute (http://www.nei.nih.gov/)
Psychonomic Society (http://www.psychonomic.org/)
SR Research (http://sr-research.com/)
University of Delaware, Cognition Department (
http://www.psych.udel.edu/graduate/detail/category/cognitive_psychology/)
University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology (
http://psychology.nd.edu/)
 University of South Carolina, Experimental Program (
http://www.psych.sc.edu/grad_psycexp/expprog.html)
Vision Sciences Society (http://www.visionsciences.org/)
Visual Cognition (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pp/13506285.html)

If you or your organization would like to support OPAM, please email
opam.info at gmail.com <http://www.opam.net/> or contact one of the organizers
directly.
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