[vslist] Conference Announcement

[Morton Heller]

I would like to post the following conference announcement on the
VisionScience list.
Thanks,
Morton A. Heller

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers:
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"Touch, Blindness, and Neuroscience."

Madrid, Spain  October 16-18, 2002

Submission Receipt Deadline for Papers and Posters is May 15, 2002

Scientific Organizers:
Soledad Ballesteros, Universidad Nacional de Educaci=F3n a Distancia, Spain
Morton A. Heller, Eastern Illinois University, U. S. A.

This Conference will bring together researchers in touch, blindness and
neuroscience.  The aim of the meeting is to facilitate communication betwee=
n
researchers approaching issues in touch and blindness from the perspectives
of psychology and neuroscience.

Invited Speakers Tentatively Include:
Soledad Ballesteros, UNED, Spain
Melvyn Goodale, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Morton A. Heller, Eastern Illinois University
Kenneth Johnson, Johns Hopkins University
John M. Kennedy, Scarborough College of the University of Toronto
Marcel Kinsbourne, The New School for Social Research
Susanna Millar =AD Oxford University, UK
Jos=E9 A. Mu=F1oz, ONCE, Spain
Alvaro Pascual-Leone,  Harvard Medical School
Krish Sathian,  Emory University School of Medicine, U.S.A.

Call for Papers:

The meeting will be open to submissions for a limited number of posters or
papers that are relevant to the central themes of the workshop. Note that
abstracts will be considered on neural, perceptual and cognitive processes
that are especially relevant to touch and blindness, but do not include
samples of blind subjects. Appropriate topic areas of interest may include,
but are not limited to:

Spatial Mobility in Blindness
Perception of Pictures or Graphics by Touch and Studies of Form or Object
Perception, Attention, Memory or Imagery in Touch, Especially with referenc=
e
to Blind people.
Mental Imagery in the Blind.
Brain Plasticity
Imaging and Brain Mechanisms in Touch
Neural Mechanisms in Touch
Haptics: Perception and Action
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Laterality and touch

Prospective participants should include a brief abstract of 250-500 words
describing their proposed paper or poster. Include email and mail contact
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SUBMISSION RECEIPT DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2002

Please send abstracts by e-mail to Morton A. Heller (cfmah1@eiu.edu). If
that is not possible, please
include a disk version with a text file, along with a hard copy version.

The abstract should include a brief, 75-100 summary of the presentation, fo=
r
insertion in the program. In addition, it should include a brief descriptio=
n
of the method, results, and conclusions, if an empirical report. If the
paper is primarily theoretical in nature, The submission should also includ=
e
a 75-100 word abstract, along with text summarizing the presentation.

Information about the acceptance of the proposal will be given before July
31.  The program will be available by August 31.

The Conference will be held at the Universidad Nacional de Educaci=F3n a
Distancia, Madrid, Spain.  Information about local hotel accommodations wil=
l
be forthcoming.  There will be a modest registration fee of $50 U.S. (58
Euros), or a reduced fee of $30 U.S. (35 Euros) for students.

Direct Inquiries for information about attendance, registration and
accommodations, or participation in the conference to the conference
organizers:

Soledad Ballesteros
UNED,
Department of Psicolog=EDa B=E1sica II
Ciudad Universitaria S/N
28040 Madrid, Spain
34 91 3986227 (office direct)
34 91 3987958 (fax)
mballesteros@psi.uned.es


Morton A. Heller, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Eastern Illinois University
1151 Physical Sciences Building
600 Lincoln Ave.
Charleston, Illinois 61920
217-581-2127 (office)
217-581-2323 (office direct)
217-581-6764 (Fax)
cfmah1@eiu.edu