Talk Presenter Instructions

Presentation Rules First authors are required to register and present their talk in their assigned session. VSS policy holds that if the first author is unable to attend the meeting, the abstract must be withdrawn. See Abstract Withdrawal for more information. Presentation Instructions All talk sessions at VSS 2023 will be recorded and made available to […]

Poster Presenter Instructions

Poster Presentation Rules First authors are required to register and present their poster in their assigned poster session. The presenting author must be present during the assigned Author Presents Time (staggered by even and odd numbered posters) but may elect to be there for the entire session. VSS policy holds that if the first author is […]

Art of Memory Exhibition

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 […]

So you published your work – now what? Paths for vision scientists to drive societal impact

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 […]

How to stop worrying and love computational neuroimaging of the visual cortex

Monday, May 20, 2024, 2:00 – 5:00 pm, Banyan/Citrus Organizers: Noah Benson, University of Washington & Mark Schira, University of Wollongong Speakers: Noah C. Benson; Fernanda L. Ribeiro; Mark M. Schira To register or for more information about this workshop, please visit https://nben.net/vss2024/ Contemporary vision science requires substantial computational resources and expertise, yet traditional vision science […]

Psychophysics Software with MATLAB

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 […]

20th Annual Dinner and Demo Night

Beach BBQ: Monday, May 20, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, Beachside Sun Decks, limited seating in Banyan BreezewayDemos: Monday, May 20, 2024, 7:00 – 10:00 pm, Talk Room 1-2 Please join us Monday evening for the 20th Annual VSS Dinner and Demo Night, a spectacular night of imaginative demos solicited from VSS members. The demos […]

2024 US Funding Workshop

Sunday, May 19, 2024, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Banyan/Citrus Moderator: Geoffrey Boynton, University of WashingtonDiscussants: Simon Fischer-Baum, National Science Foundation (NSF); Todd Horowitz, National Cancer Institute (NCI); Cheri Wiggs, National Eye Institute (NEI); and Ed Clayton, National Eye Institute (NEI) – Training Division You have a great research idea, but you need money to make […]

VISxVISION Workshop: Vision Science and Data Visualization Research

Sunday, May 19, 2024, 7:15 – 9:15 pm, Banyan/Citrus Organizers: Ouxun Jiang, Northwestern University; Ghulam Jilani Quadri, University of Oklahoma; Clementine Zimnicki, University of Wisconsin Madison; Racquel Fygenson, Northeastern University Interdisciplinary work across vision science and data visualization has provided a new lens to advance our understanding of the capabilities and mechanisms of the visual […]

Public Lecture – Arthur Shapiro

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 […]

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