VPixx Technologies (Gold Sponsor) Booths 6, 7, 8 VPixx Technologies welcomes the vision science community to VSS 2024. Over the past 23 years, VPixx has become known for our innovative hardware for vision research. The PROPixx DLP LED video projector, supporting refresh rates up to 1440Hz, has become the standard for neuroimaging, neurophysiology, and behavioral […]
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 […]
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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, Snowy Egret 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. […]
Monday, May 20, 2024, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 2 The Vision Sciences Society is honored to present Randolph Blake with the 2024 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science. The Ken Nakayama Medal is in honor of Professor Ken Nakayama’s contributions to the Vision Sciences Society, as well as his innovations and […]
Friday, May 17, 2024, 8:30 – 10:00 pm, Garden Courtyard Organizers: Michael Grubb, Trinity College; Alex White, Barnard College LGBTQ students are disproportionately likely to drop out of science early. Potential causes include the lack of visible role models and the absence of a strong community. This social event is one small step towards filling […]
