VPixx Technologies (Gold Sponsor) Booths 6, 7 & 8 VPixx Technologies welcomes the vision science community to VSS 2023. Over the past 22 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 […]
Monday, May 22, 2023, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 2 The Vision Sciences Society is honored to present Brian A. Anderson with the 2023 Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award. The Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award, sponsored by Vision Research, is given to an early-career vision scientist who has made outstanding contributions to the field. The nature of […]
Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 12:30 – 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. This year’s meeting will include a discussion of options for the […]
Rowan Candy Professor of Optometry, Vision Science and Neuroscience, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Seeing through the eyes of a baby Sunday, May 21, 2023, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Enoch Davis Center located at 1111 18th Ave South, St. Petersburg, 33705 Have you wondered what a baby can see? Can they see colors? Can they see […]
Friday, May 19, 2023, 8:30 – 9:30 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 […]
Friday, May 19, 2023, 9:00 – 11:30 am, Jasmine/Palm Organizer: Dr. Sophie Kenny, Staff Scientist at VPixx Technologies While most vision researchers use flat-panel displays for their experiments, many also use projection systems due to their extensive range of potential applications. Projectors can be a practical solution for environments sensitive to magnetic fields (fMRI, MEG, […]
Sunday, May 21, 2023, 8:45 – 9:45 pm, Garden Courtyard Sponsored by: Females of Vision et al (FoVea) Organizers: Charisse B. Pickron, University of Minnesota & Diane Beck, University of Illinois Career transitions are both exciting and scary. Some of the uncertainty regarding a new role, however, can be reduced by talking to others who […]
A message from the Board of Directors of VSS: VSS is one of the many member societies of FABBS, the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. VSS has been invited to contribute articles to an issue of the FABBS journal, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS). The issue will consist of 23 invited articles, […]
VSS operates according to Bylaws that can be found on the society’s website. The Board of Directors periodically reviews the Bylaws and recommends revisions to the membership. After this year’s review the Board would like to recommend several amendments. The full text of the amended Bylaws may be found here and a summary of the amended sections is […]
Friday, May 13, 2022, 5:00 – 7:00 pm EDT, Talk Room 1 Organizers: Ömer Dağlar Tanrıkulu1, Arni Kristjansson2; 1Williams College, 2University of IcelandPresenters: Ömer Dağlar Tanrıkulu, Dobromir Rahnev, Andrey Chetverikov, Robbe Goris, Uta Noppeney, Cristina Savin < Back to 2022 Symposia The presence of image noise and the absence of one-to-one inverse mapping from images […]
