Awards Sponsors
Elsevier/Vision Research
Elsevier is proud to sponsor the 2026 Young Investigator Award and the VSS 2026 Elsevier/Vision Research Travel Awards.


Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity.
We help researchers make new discoveries, collaborate with their colleagues, and give them the knowledge they need to find funding. We help governments and universities evaluate and improve their research strategies. We help doctors save lives, providing insight for physicians to find the right clinical answers, and we support nurses and other healthcare professionals throughout their careers. Our goal is to expand the boundaries of knowledge for the benefit of humanity.
National Eye Institute
The National Eye Institute (NEI) conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems of individuals who are visually impaired or blind. Vision research is supported by the NEI through research grants and training awards made to scientists at more than 250 medical centers, hospitals, universities, and other institutions across the country and around the world. The NEI also conducts laboratory and patient-oriented research at its own facilities located on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland.
U.S. National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories. They support solutions-oriented research with the potential to produce advancements for the American people.
Silver Sponsors
Magstim EGI
EGI, the leader in the field of high-density EEG, offers innovative solutions for brain research and stimulation. Our EEG systems are designed to deliver precise, high-quality data, enabling researchers to explore the complexities of brain function and advance our understanding of neurological functions and disorders. Now part of the Welcony family of companies along with Magstim TMS, our sensing and stimulation systems have been used in over 20,000 peer reviewed scientific publications. Visit the EGI booth at VSS to learn more about the latest generation of EEG, TMS and tDCS/tACS devices designed to make even the most complex projects possible.
SR Research Ltd
SR Research produces the EyeLink family of high-speed eye trackers and
has been enabling scientists to perform cutting-edge research since the early 1990s. EyeLink systems are renowned for their outstanding technical specifications, temporal precision, and superb accuracy. The EyeLink 1000 Plus has the world’s lowest spatial noise and can be used in the laboratory and in EEG/MEG/MRI environments. The EyeLink Portable Duo offers the same high levels of data quality in a small, portable package. SR Research also provides sophisticated experiment delivery and analysis software, and a truly legendary support service.
VPixx Technologies
VPixx has developed your innovative vision research hardware for over 24 years. Our PROPixx video projector, supporting refresh rates up to 1440Hz, has become the standard for neuroimaging, neurophysiology, and behavioral vision research applications. The PROPixx RIFT (Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging) paradigm is enabling ground-breaking MEG and EEG research: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35452080/.
The TRACKPixx3 2kHz binocular eye tracker and the DATAPixx3 I/O hub offer microsecond-precise data acquisition synchronized to stimulus presentation. Our new LabMaestro software is making these instruments even easier to use, while Pack&Go is your solution for quickly running psychophysics experiments on remote subject populations.
2025 is a very special year, in which VPixx releases several innovative displays that the vision research community has been requesting. Visit our booth for exciting live demonstrations!
Bronze Sponsors
BrainVision LLC
Brain Vision LLC is the leading team for EEG in Vision Science. We offer full integration of EEG with many leading eye-tracking and video systems we also provide flexible and robust solutions for both stationary and mobile EEG. All of our systems are available with a variety of electrode types such as saline-sponge nets, active gel, passive, and dry electrodes, which are easily expandable with bio-sensors like GSR, ECG, Respiration, and EMG. Our team is specialized in using EEG with other modalities such as fMRI, fNIRS, MEG, TMS, and tDCS/HDtDCS.
If you want to know how EEG and Vision Science improve each other, please feel free to contact us:
Phone: +1.877.EEG 4 MRI, Email:
Cortech

Bringing you the Biosemi ActiveThree EEG, and Cambridge Research Systems full range of tools for vision science. ActiveThree is the world’s most advanced laboratory grade active electrode EEG system, and it includes a free vendor-supported LSL server, 24-bit SAR ADCs for the purest frequency response, and a tiny generic Lithium Ion battery for your convenience. CRS Display++ and BOLDscreen UHD are color and luminance calibrated displays for use in the laboratory and in fMRI, respectively. BOLDscreen is part of a full range of fMRI tools, including binocular eye-tracking, vision correction, BOLDfonic audio, response devices, and more.
Exponent
Exponent In an era of radically-accelerating change, Exponent is the only premium engineering and scientific consulting firm with the depth and breadth of expertise to solve your most profoundly unique, unprecedented, and urgent challenges. Exponent brings together 90+ technical disciplines and 950+ consultants to help our clients navigate the increasing complexity of more than a dozen industries, connecting decades of pioneering work in failure analysis to develop solutions for a safer, healthier, sustainable world.
NIRx Medical Technologies, LLC is a leading provider of comprehensive solutions for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) research. Our non-invasive and user-friendly fNIRS technology enables the measurement of neural activity in the cortex and large-scale cortical networks, providing insights into the neural mechanisms underlying perception and cognition.
Our complete range of research solutions includes a versatile multimodal hardware platform, advanced online and offline analysis software, expert technical and scientific support, and comprehensive training programs. We are dedicated to supporting fNIRS researchers through our offices in Orlando, New York, and Berlin, Germany.
Whether you’re investigating changes in neural activity during development, researching disorders and their treatments, or exploring new applications in neuroscience, NIRx has the expertise and solutions to help you achieve your research goals. For more information, please contact us at +49 308 1453 5990 (EU), (+1) 321-352-7570 (US/Canada), or email us at .
Wearable Sensing

Wearable Sensing, an actively growing company based in San Diego, focuses on developing high-end wearable sensing technology and its applications. Their initial products are wearable wireless dry electrode systems, facilitating high-fidelity electroencephalography (EEG) signal recording from the scalp, comparable to conventional medical-grade electrodes but without technical hassles and artifact sensitivity. These research-grade sensors are integrated into practical headsets suitable for real-world use. Wearable Sensing’s solutions cover diverse applications, including academic research, neurofeedback, brain-computer interfaces, and more.
WorldVizVR

WorldViz will present SightLab VR, a plugin to Vizard (Worldviz’s python platform for building VR applications), that can use either a GUI based interface or extended python code to allow users to easily set up VR eye tracking experiments (with little or no code) then collect, visualize, review and analyze eye tracking data. Supports for all the major PC based XR eye tracking devices including Vive Focus Vision, Varjo XR-4, Meta Quest Pro and more.
It will allow drag and drop adding of videos and 3D models, and many of the most used analytics methods are included into the provided templates (visual search, reaction time, memory tasks and much more).
Build a scene, run your experiment and review in minutes. Fully expandable and modifiable by using the GUI configurator or python code. Additionally allows for multi user support.
The WorldViz components allow integration of highly targeted VR labs, and we are happy to help customers configure their own labs, tailored to their specific needs.
Zeto Inc.

Zeto, Inc. is transforming the way electroencephalography is done in clinical and research settings. Zeto’s award-winning, FDA-cleared EEG platform brings the traditional EEG procedure to the 21st century by offering a zero-prep, easy-to-wear headset with active, dry electrodes that are positioned as per the 10-20 system.
The Zeto headset is backed by a cloud data and software platform, a real-time LSL-based API, and a TTL-based trigger device for ERP studies. Powerful plugin interfaces enable customers to integrate their own applications and analytics for seamless data processing.
The company plans to leverage its platform technology to improve access and quality to medical grade EEG testing and to enable and improve adjacent biomedical research and clinical trials.
Learn more about our research platform: https://zeto-inc.com/eeg-for-research-and-clinical-trials/
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Coffee Break Sponsors
Center for Visual Science
The Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester is an interdisciplinary research center focused on understanding the visual system. Established in 1963, CVS brings together faculty, researchers, and students from various departments, including brain and cognitive sciences, optics, neuroscience, ophthalmology, biomedical engineering, computer science, psychiatry and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Its research covers a wide range of topics related to vision science, including basic mechanisms of visual perception, the development of visual systems, and the design of therapeutic interventions for visual disorders.
Stop by our table during the Saturday and Sunday afternoon coffee breaks in the Garden Courtyard!







