The Active Fovea

< Back to 2023 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 19, 2023, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 2 Organizers: Martina Poletti1, Martin Rolfs2, Jude Mitchell1; 1University of Rochester, 2Humboldt-UniversitätPresenters: Wolf Harmening, Martina Poletti, Hamutal Slovin, Lisa Kroell, Shanna Coop, Tong Zhang It is well established that vision is an active process at the macroscopic scale; humans […]

How does the brain combine generative models and direct discriminative computations for visual inference?

< Back to 2023 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 19, 2023, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 2 Organizers: Benjamin Peters1, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte1; 1Columbia UniversityPresenters: Benjamin Peters, Ralf Haefner, Divya Subramanian, Doris Tsao, Thomas Naselaris How might the brain combine generative models and direct discriminative computations for visual inference? Using primate neurophysiology, human neuroimaging, psychophysics, and […]

Program PDF

VSS 2023 Program Download the VSS 2023 Program PDFTitles & Authors Only for Symposia, Talks, and Posters.(270 pages, 14 MB) VSS 2023 Abstracts Download the VSS 2023 Abstracts PDFAbstracts for Symposia, Talks, and Posters.(792 pages, 518 MB, that’s a really big file) A copy of the Schedule-at-a-Glance will be provided at registration. Download the VSS […]

2023 US Funding Workshop

Sunday, May 21, 2023, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Jasmine/Palm Moderator: Geoffrey Boynton, University of WashingtonDiscussants: Todd Horowitz, National Cancer Institute; Tatiana Pasternak, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH); Betty Tuller, National Science Foundation; and Cheri Wiggs, National Eye Institute (NIH) You have a great research idea, but you need money to make it […]

2023 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science – William H. Warren

Monday, May 22, 2023, 12:30 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 2 The Vision Sciences Society is honored to present William H. (Bill) Warren with the 2023 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 […]

2023 phiVis: Philosophy of Vision Science Workshop

Tuesday, May 23, 2023, 12:30 – 2:30 pm, Jasmine/Palm Organizers: Chaz Firestone, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University; Kevin Lande, Department of Philosophy & Centre for Vision Research, York University; Jorge Morales, Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, Northeastern University Speakers: Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon), with comments from Ruth Rosenholtz (MIT); Madeleine Ransom […]

2023 Virtual Reality + Eye Tracking for Research

Saturday, May 20, 2023, 12:45 – 2:15 pm, Blue Heron Organizers: Sado Rabaudi, Product Manager, Solutions Architect, WorldViz; Dan Tinkham, Head Of Sales, Americas, WorldViz WorldViz VR will give an educational seminar and hands-on demonstration of the latest virtual reality and mixed reality consumer devices with built in eye tracking and will explain how this […]

2023 Visibility: A Gathering of LGBTQ+ Vision Scientists and Friends

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 […]

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