Unless otherwise noted, all meeting events take place at the TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel, St. Pete Beach, Florida.
| Date | Time | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday May 15 |
9:00 am – 6:00 pm | Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) VSS Satellite | Horizons |
| Thursday May 16 |
9:00 am – 6:00 pm | Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) VSS Satellite | Horizons |
| Friday May 17 |
7:30 am – 9:30 pm | VSS Cyber Lounge VSS Social Lounge VSS Quiet Lounge |
Blue Heron Banyan/Citrus Glades |
| 8:30 am – 9:30 am | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard |
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| 8:30 – 11:45 am | Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS) VSS Satellite | Horizons | |
| 9:00 am – 6:00 pm | Registration Open | Grand Palm Colonnade | |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 pm | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard | |
| 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Symposium 1: Reading as a visual act: Recognition of visual letter symbols in the mind and brain | Talk Room 1 | |
| 12:00 – 2:00 pm | Symposium 2: Rhythms of the brain, rhythms of perception | Talk Room 2 | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 pm | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard | |
| 2:30 – 4:30 pm | Symposium 3: What can be inferred about neural population codes from psychophysical and neuroimaging data? | Talk Room 1 | |
| 2:30 – 4:30 pm | Symposium 4: Visual Search: From youth to old age, from the lab to the world | Talk Room 2 | |
| 4:30 – 5:00 pm | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard | |
| 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Symposium 5: What Deafness Tells Us about the Nature of Vision | Talk Room 1 | |
| 5:00 – 7:00 pm | Symposium 6: Prefrontal cortex in visual perception and recognition | Talk Room 2 | |
| 7:00 – 9:30 pm | Opening Night Reception | Beachside Sun Decks | |
| Saturday May 18 |
7:30 am – 6:45 pm | Registration Open | Grand Palm Colonnade |
| 7:30 am – 9:30 pm | VSS Cyber Lounge VSS Social Lounge VSS Quiet Lounge |
Blue Heron Banyan/Citrus Glades |
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| 7:45 – 8:30 am | Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Eye Movements: Perception | Talk Room 1 | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Spatial Vision: Crowding, eccentricity, natural image statistics, texture | Talk Room 2 | |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion |
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| 9:00 am – 5:30 pm | Exhibits Open | Pavilion | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Connect with Industry Reps who are Hiring | Banyan/Citrus |
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| 10:45 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: 3D Perception | Talk Room 1 | |
| 10:45 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Attention: Animacy, attentional blink | Talk Room 2 | |
| 12:30 – 2:30 pm | Lunch (on your own) | cash lunch available in the Garden Courtyard | |
| 12:45 – 1:45 pm | Student/Postdoc Workshop: Peer-networking for Students and Postdocs | ||
| 12:45 – 1:45 pm | US Funding Workshop | ||
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 1: Perception and Action: Locomotion, wayfinding | Talk Room 1 | |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 1: Attention: Shifting, tracking | Talk Room 2 | |
| 2:45 – 6:45 pm | Afternoon Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion | |
| 4:15 – 5:00 pm | Afternoon Coffee & Snack | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 5:15 – 6:45 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 2: Faces: Neural mechanisms | Talk Room 1 | |
| 5:15 – 6:45 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 2: Development | Talk Room 2 | |
| 7:15 – 8:15 pm | Keynote Address: William T. Freeman | Talk Room 1-2 | |
| Sunday May 19 |
7:30 am – 6:45 pm | Registration Open | Grand Palm Colonnade |
| 7:30 am – 9:30 pm | VSS Cyber Lounge VSS Social Lounge VSS Quiet Lounge |
Blue Heron Banyan/Citrus Glades |
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| 7:45 – 8:30 am | Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Shape, Motion, Color and Depth: Integration | Talk Room 1 | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Visual Memory: Neural mechanisms | Talk Room 2 | |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion |
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| 9:00 am – 5:30 pm | Exhibits Open | Pavilion | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Connect with Industry Reps who are Hiring | Banyan/Citrus |
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| 10:45 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Faces: Dynamics, convolutional neural networks | Talk Room 1 | |
| 10:45 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Perceptual Organization | Talk Room 2 | |
| 12:30 – 2:30 pm | Lunch (on your own) | cash lunch available in the Garden Courtyard | |
| 12:45 – 1:45 pm | Student/Postdoc Workshop: How to Spend Your Time Well | Jasmine/Palm | |
| 12:45 – 1:45 pm | Non-US Funding Workshop | Sabal/Sawgrass | |
| 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Public Lecture: Peter Thompson (offsite) | St. Petersburg Main Library | |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 1: Objects and Scenes: Shape categorization, scene perception | Talk Room 1 | |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 1: Binocular Vision | Talk Room 2 | |
| 2:45 – 6:45 pm | Afternoon Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion |
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| 4:15 – 5:00 pm | Afternoon Coffee & Snack | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 5:15 – 7:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 2: Visual Search: Models, neural mechanisms | Talk Room 1 | |
| 5:15 – 7:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 2: Visual Memory: Working memory | Talk Room 2 | |
| Monday May 20 |
7:30 am – 12:30 pm 7:30 am – 12:30 pm 7:30 am – 9:30 pm |
VSS Social Lounge VSS Quiet Lounge VSS Cyber Lounge |
Banyan/Citrus Glades Blue Heron |
| 7:45 – 8:30 am | Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 7:45 am – 1:30 pm | Registration Open | Grand Palm Colonnade | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Attention: Models, neural mechanisms | Talk Room 1 | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Object Recognition: Models, neural mechanisms | Talk Room 2 | |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion |
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| 9:00 am – 12:30 pm | Exhibits Open | Pavilion | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Object Recognition: Reading, domain-specific expertise | Talk Room 1 | |
| 10:45 am – 12:15 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Multisensory Processing | Talk Room 2 | |
| 12:30 – 1:45 pm | VSS Awards Session: Davida Teller Award Ken Nakayama Medal Young Investigator Award Student Travel Awards |
Talk Room 1-2 | |
| 1:45 – 6:00 pm | Afternoon Off | Go have fun! | |
| 4:30 – 5:45 pm | Meet the Professors | Beach Tent | |
| 6:00 – 8:00 pm | Demo Night Beach BBQ | Beachside Sun Decks | |
| 7:00 – 10:00 pm | Demo Night Demos | Talk Room 1-2 Jacaranda Hall, Royal Tern, Snowy Egret, Compass |
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| Tuesday May 21 |
7:30 am – 9:30 pm | VSS Cyber Lounge VSS Social Lounge VSS Quiet Lounge |
Blue Heron Banyan/Citrus Glades |
| 7:45 – 8:30 am | Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 7:45 am – 6:45 pm | Registration Open | Grand Palm Colonnade | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Object Recognition: Convolutional neural networks | Talk Room 1 | |
| 8:15 – 9:45 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Temporal Processing | Talk Room 2 | |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion |
|
| 9:00 am – 5:30 pm | Exhibits Open | Pavilion | |
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 10:45 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Spatial Vision: Models, neural mechanisms | Talk Room 1 | |
| 10:45 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Attention: Cues, context | Talk Room 2 | |
| 12:30 – 1:00 pm | VSS Business Meeting | Talk Room 2 | |
| 1:00 – 2:30 pm | Lunch (on your own) | cash lunch available in the Garden Courtyard | |
| 1:00 – 2:30 pm | VSS Committees Lunch (invite only) |
Horizons | |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 1: Objects and Scenes: Cortical category selectivity | Talk Room 1 | |
| 2:30 – 4:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 1: Color and Light | Talk Room 2 | |
| 2:45 – 6:45 pm | Afternoon Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion |
|
| 4:15 – 5:00 pm | Afternoon Coffee & Snack | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 5:15 – 7:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 2: Eye Movements: Models, neural mechanisms | Talk Room 1 | |
| 5:15 – 7:15 pm | Afternoon Talk Session 2: Visual Search: Space, time | Talk Room 2 | |
| 10:00 pm – 2:00 am | Club Vision | Talk Room 1 | |
| Wednesday May 22 |
7:30 am – 12:45 pm | VSS Cyber Lounge VSS Social Lounge VSS Quiet Lounge |
Blue Heron Banyan/Citrus Glades |
| 7:45 – 8:30 am | Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 7:45 am – 12:45 pm | Registration Open | Grand Palm Colonnade | |
| 8:15 – 10:00 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Perception and Action: Decision making, neural mechanisms | Talk Room 1 | |
| 8:15 – 10:00 am | Morning Talk Session 1: Visual Memory: Long term memory | Talk Room 2 | |
| 8:30 am – 12:30 pm | Morning Poster Sessions | Banyan Breezeway and Pavilion | |
| 10:00 – 10:45 am | Coffee Break | Garden Courtyard and Pavilion | |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Perceptual Learning | Talk Room 1 | |
| 11:00 am – 12:45 pm | Morning Talk Session 2: Motion Perception | Talk Room 2 |