[visionlist] Important VSS 2013 Information

[Vision Sciences Society]

Plans for the VSS 2013 Annual Meeting are well underway. The meeting will be
held at the Waldorf Astoria Naples in Naples, Florida,  May 10-15, 2013. The
deadline for early (discounted) registration is Wednesday, February 27,
2013.  Register Now at http://www.visionsciences.org/registration.html 

 

Abstract Notifications

Abstract notifications were sent February 5, 2013.  If you did not receive
an email, contact the VSS office at vss at visionsciences.org.   A preliminary
schedule will be posted on our website by February 19, 2013.

 

Hotel Rooms

Rooms are still available at the meeting hotel - Waldorf Astoria Naples. To
reserve a room, call 1-888-722-1270 or to make your reservations online, go
to http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel.html.

 

Rooms are also available at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, the all-suites sister
hotel to the Waldorf Astoria Naples located directly on the beach in Naples,
a few miles south of the Waldorf Astoria Naples. For details and online
reservations, go to http://www.visionsciences.org/hotel-overflows.html. 

 

Symposia

The meeting begins Friday afternoon at 1:00 pm with member-initiated
symposia.  For full details, go to
http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia_2013.html.  This year's symposia are:

 

The structure of visual working memory

Organizer: Wei Ji Ma, Baylor College of Medicine

 

 <http://www.visionsciences.org/symposia2013_5.html> Contextual and top-down
influences in vision

Organizer: Uri Polat, Tel-Aviv University

 

Active Perception: The synergy between perception and action

Organizers: Michele Rucci, Boston University & Eli Brenner, VU University

 

ARVO at VSS: Visual Development

Organizers: Susana Chung, University of California, Berkeley and Anthony
Norcia, Stanford University

 

Decoding and the spatial scale of cortical organization

Organizers: Jeremy Freeman, New York University; Elisha P. Merriam,
Departments of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University; and Talia
Konkle, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

 

Does appearance matter?

Organizer: Sarah R. Allred, Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey

 

 

Upcoming Dates

Application Deadline for Satellite Events: 2/15/2013

VSS Program and Schedule Posted: 2/19/2013

Early Registration Deadline: 2/27/2013

Deadline for Nominations to the VSS Board: 3/6/2013
Deadline to Submit Demos: 3/12/2013

Deadline to Reserve Rooms at Waldorf Astoria Naples and the Edgewater Beach
Hotel: 4/9/2013

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