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Symposia Guidelines
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Symposia GuidelinesSymposia Submissions are now closed. VSS Annual Meeting, Friday, May 8, 2009 VSS symposia to be held on Friday afternoon, May 8, at the start of the 2009 VSS Annual Meeting. Four to six symposia will be scheduled, with up to three parallel programs in each two-hour time slot. Symposia should deal with contemporary research topics in vision research.
Symposia can be organized along the lines of content (e.g., neural bases of
object recognition, attentional mechanisms, etc.) or methodology (e.g.,
classification images, TMS, etc.), but in every case talks within a symposium
should focus on broader conceptual themes than a typical VSS presentation.
Individual talks should be no less than twenty minutes and no more than 30
minutes, including time for discussion. There should be at least 4 and no more
than 6 speakers within a symposium session. Discussion time can be scheduled
according to the organizers discretion (e.g., after individual talks,
concentrated at the end of a session, or a mixture of the two approaches). Organizers must ensure that all speakers are committed to participating in the symposium before submitting a proposal, and organizers must also ensure that speakers have not agreed to participate in more than one symposium. In the case of a symposium talk with more than one author, the first author must present the work. Proposals will be evaluated by the VSS Board of Directors using a variety of criteria including scientific merit and timeliness, theoretical innovation and/or breadth, methodological innovation and/or diversity, and overlap (less being better) with the regular program. Proposals from young investigators are encouraged. For each speaker please provide up to three references to published articles relevant to the proposed talk. Deadline: October 31, 2008 |