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.

Magstim EGI

Magstim 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 25 years, and now the new VIEWPixx3 /OLED calibrated visual testing display is shipping! Visit our booth and experience for yourself its infinite contrast ratio and wide color gamut.

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.

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.

Bronze Sponsors

Cortech Solutions, Inc.

Cortech brings 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.

Frontiers in Cognition

Discover Frontiers in Cognition, a multidisciplinary open-access journal exploring the complexities of the mind. Now indexed in ESCI (Web of Science) and Scopus, the journal aims to bridge psychology and neuroscience by publishing high-quality empirical and theoretical research in cognitive neuroscience, including specialty sections on attention, learning and cognitive development, memory, neural networks and cognition, perception, cognition and movement, and reason and decision-making. Led by Field Chief Editor Prof. George R. Mangun (UC Davis, USA), Frontiers in Cognition offers a rigorous and inclusive platform for innovative research, supporting our mission to make science open at global scale.

J.S. Held

J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realize value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organizations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets.

Among myriad other specialized services, we provide product safety and user experience (UX) research across the entire product lifecycle based on five decades of human factors and failure analysis. We are always looking for qualified PhDs, postdocs, and early-career faculty interested in technical consulting.

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 .

Rogue Research Inc.

Rogue Research has been your partner in neuroscience research for over 25 years. We offer the Brainsight® family of neuronavigation systems for non-invasive brain stimulation, our next generation TMS device (Elevate TMS) as well as our Brainsight robot to place and hold the TMS coil or TUS transducer automatically. Our integrated system is controllable externally via TCP to enable real-time experiments controlling all components. We also offer Veterinary surgical navigation and robotic microsurgery equipment.

Tobii

Tobii is the global leader in eye tracking, providing researchers with precise, reliable tools to study visual behavior in both controlled and real-world environments.

For over two decades, Tobii has supported the scientific community with high-performance screen-based and wearable eye tracking systems designed for a wide range of research applications, including vision science, neuroscience, psychology, and human factors.

Our solutions combine advanced hardware, software, and expert support to enable rigorous experimental design, accurate data collection, and efficient analysis. From lab-based studies requiring high sampling rates and spatial accuracy to studies of natural behavior in real-world settings, Tobii systems are built to meet the demands of modern research.

Today, Tobii technology and services are used by more than 2,000 companies and 1,500 research institutions worldwide, including all of the top 50 ranked universities.

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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Adaptive Sensory Technology

Chill Vision Sponsor

Adaptive Sensory Technology (AST) is inventing new ways to evaluate and monitor health. We believe that precision testing will improve clinical research, clinical trials, and clinical practice for eye care.

Precision tools enable us to capture data, see trends, and closely monitor change. To safeguard our health, it’s important to have better signals of what’s happening over time.

Neurobridge

Coffee Break Sponsor, Sunday 4:15 – 5:00 pm, Garden Courtyard

NEUROBRIDGE is an international programme of advanced education supporting international collaborations in the field of neuroscience and neurotechnologies. It is led by five Italian universities and it funds international exchanges for students and researchers, with a focus on Australia, Asia, Africa and South America.

On September 3-9 2025 Pisa is hosting the Neurobridge Summer School in Sensory Neuroscience. We welcome Master’s degree and early PhD students with a strong interest in exploring the neural mechanisms of sensation and perception and their plasticity. The school is open to participants from any institution and country, and has dedicated funding for those coming from partner institutions in the project.

To learn more about this and the other Neurobridge initiatives, stop by our table during the Saturday mid-morning coffee break in the Garden Courtyard!