VSS board members T. Rowan Candy and Jody Culham will be stepping down this year. Four candidates, nominated by the membership and selected by an independent Nominating Committee, will compete in pairs for the two open positions. Each newly elected Director will serve a four-year term on the VSS Board of Directors. Responsibilities of the […]
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 12:15 – 1:00 pm, Talk Room 2 We encourage you to join the VSS Board of Directors for the Annual Business Meeting. During this meeting, the VSS leadership will provide an overview of the Society and the outlook and priorities. The board will continue discussions about the future venue locations and […]
Monday, May 20, 2024, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 2 The Vision Sciences Society is honored to present Isabel Gauthier with the 2024 Davida Teller Award Congratulations to Isabel Gauthier, the twelfth recipient of the Davida Teller Award. The Teller Award was created to honor the late Davida Teller’s exceptional scientific achievements, commitment to […]
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 12:45 – 2:15 pm, Sabal/Sawgrass Organized by: Rebecca Hornsey, University of Stirling and Jessica Parker, University of Tennessee-Knoxville (VSS Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee); Rowan Candy and Anya Hurlbert (VSS Diversity & Inclusion Committee) Moderator: Rebecca Hornsey, University of Stirling Speakers: Lucas Nadólskis, UCSB; Yingzi Xiong, Johns Hopkins University; Annabel Nijhof, Ghent University […]
To withdraw an abstract prior to the meeting, the first author must send an email to . Under exceptional, unavoidable circumstances, the VSS Board of Directors will consider a co-author replacement for a presentation. To request such a special substitution, a clear explanation must be given in writing in advance (send such requests to ). […]
Organizers: Wilma Bainbridge, University of Chicago; Trent Davis, University of Chicago The Brain Bridge Lab will be showing the Art of Memory exhibition throughout this year’s VSS conference! As a part of our research into the relationship between art and memory, we are hosting an art contest where we challenge artists to try to create the […]
Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 – 5:00 pm, Blue Heron Organizers: Sharon Gilad-Gutnick1 & Ella Striem-Amit2 Speakers: Lotfi Merabet3; Jeremy Wolfe4; Sharon Gilad-Gutnick1; Simon Fischer-Baum5; Cheri Wiggs6 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Project Prakash2Georgetown University Medical Center3Massachusetts Eye & Ear / Harvard Medical School 4Brigham & Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School 5Rice University / National Science Foundation6National Eye […]
Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 – 3:30 pm, Jasmine/Palm Organizers: Vijay Iyer, MathWorks; Alexis Paez, MathWorks; Greg Ginnan, INCF Speakers: Alexis Paez, PhD, MathWorks; Greg Ginnan, PhD, INCF; Vijay Iyer, PhD, MathWorks; Mario Kleiner (lead developer) and Celia Foster, PhD, Psychophysics Toolbox; Lindsey Fraser, PhD, VPixx; Justin Gardner, PhD, MGL; Giles Holland (lead developer), PsychBench […]
Arthur Shapiro Departments of Psychology and Computer Science, American University, Washington, DC Visual illusions: Why are we surprised by only some of the things that we see? Saturday, May 18, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, West Community Library at the St. Pete College Gibbs campus, room L-101. Located at 6700 8th Ave N, St. Petersburg, 33710. Visual […]
Friday, May 17, 2024, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, Royal Tern Organizers: Dr. Nilsu Atilgan, The Readability Consortium; Dr. Ben D. Sawyer, University of Central Florida; Dr. Steven Clapp, University of Central Florida Speakers: Dr. Denis Pelli, New York University; Dr. Ben Wolfe, University of Toronto Mississauga; Dr. Shaun Wallace, University of Rhode Island; Dr. […]
