Hands-on Data Visualization Brown Bag

Sunday, May 18, 2025, 12:45 – 2:15 pm, Glades/Jasmine Organizers: Jeremy Wilmer (Wellesley College); Sarah Kerns (Dartmouth College); Yang Wang (UCSD); Ouxun Jiang (Northwestern University) This is the second Hands-on Data Visualization Brown Bag at VSS. The first was in 2022. Attendees had a good time and wanted the event to return, so here we […]

Public Lecture – Patrick Cavanagh

Patrick Cavanagh Department of Psychology, Glendon College, Toronto, Canada Using Illusions and Art to Understand the Visual Brain Monday, May 19, 2025, 3:00 – 4:00 pm, The Dalí Museum, One Dalí Boulevard, St. Petersburg. Everybody loves illusions. At times, the content on the internet seems to be mostly about illusions – shoes, dresses, straight lines […]

Board of Directors

About the Board of Directors The VSS Board of Directors consists of 9 individuals drawn from our scientific faculty members (regular members), who are ultimately responsible for crafting the scientific programming of the Annual Meeting, implementing and monitoring VSS policies, overseeing our budget, and associated events (workshops, public outreach, trainee-centered educational and career development events) […]

Undergraduate Just-In-Time (UJIT) Poster Submissions

VSS 2025 is pleased to announce 2 “Just-In-Time” poster sessions for undergraduate students, post-bacs and research assistants working on independent research projects. Posters will be presented in person at the annual meeting in two sessions on Sunday morning, May 18 and Tuesday afternoon, May 20. The window for submissions will open on March 3 and […]

Regular Abstract Submission Guidelines & Policies

Policies For questions about Abstract Submission Policies, please Contact Us. Abstract Format Regular abstracts are limited to 300 words. This does not include title, authors, and affiliations. Additional space is provided for funding acknowledgments and for declaration of commercial interests and conflicts. Your abstract should consist of an introduction, methods and results sections, and a conclusion. […]

Symposium Submission Guidelines & Policies

Policies For questions about Symposium Submission Policies, please contact us at Symposia are presented at the VSS 2025 Annual Meeting on the first day (Friday). VSS 2025 will be a fully in-person meeting with no virtual components. Four to six symposia will be scheduled, each in a 2-hour time slot. Symposia can be organized […]

Using deep networks to re-imagine object-based attention and perception

< Back to 2024 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 17, 2024, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Talk Room 2 Organizers: Hossein Adeli1, Seoyoung Ahn2, Gregory Zelinsky2; 1Columbia University, 2Stony Brook UniversityPresenters: Patrick Cavanagh, Frank Tong, Paolo Papale, Alekh Karkada Ashok, Hossein Adeli, Melissa Le-Hoa Võ What can Deep Neural Network (DNN) methods tell us about the brain […]

The Multifaceted effects of blindness and how sight might be restored

< Back to 2024 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 17, 2024, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Talk Room 1 Organizer: Ella Striem-Amit1; 1Georgetown UniversityPresenters: Lara Coelho, Santani Teng, Woon Ju Park, Elizabeth J. Saccone, Ella Striem-Amit, Michael Beyeler Congenital blindness illustrates the developmental roots of visual cortex functions. Here, a group of early-career researchers will present various […]

Neurodiversity in visual functioning: Moving beyond case-control studies

< Back to 2024 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 17, 2024, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 1 Organizers: Catherine Manning1, Michael-Paul Schallmo2; 1University of Reading, UK, 2University of MinnesotaPresenters: Catherine Manning, Michael-Paul Schallmo, Victor Pokorny, Brian Keane, Beier Yao, Alice Price Although vision science has a rich history of investigating atypical functioning in developmental and […]

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