Membership

There are currently over 3,600 members of VSS, representing a wide range of vision research areas. 50% of our members come from outside the United States, representing over 30 countries. Membership in Vision Sciences Society is on a calendar year basis. Dues are non-refundable and non-transferable. Remember, you MUST become a 2024 member to access […]

Continuous psychophysics

< Back to 2023 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 19, 2023, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Talk Room 2 Organizers: Johannes Burge1, Kathryn Bonnen2; 1University of Pennsylvania, 2Indiana UniversityPresenters: Johannes Burge, Constantin Rothkopf, David Burr, Clara Mestre, Pascal Mamassian This symposium will highlight continuous psychophysics, a recent and potentially paradigm-shifting methodological advance in the science of perception […]

Object representations in the parietal cortex

< Back to 2023 Symposia Symposium: Friday, May 19, 2023, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Talk Room 1 Organizers: Erez Freud1, Maryam Vaziri Pashkam2, Yaoda Xu3; 1York University, 2National Institute of Mental Health, 3Yale UniversityPresenters: Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Vladislav Ayzenberg, Anne B. Sereno, Erez Freud, Stefania Bracci, Yaoda Xu Although the primate ventral visual cortex is well […]

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 […]

2024 Graphics Competition

VSS is seeking outstanding creative visual images for the 2024 meeting. There are two separate graphics competitions: the Website Banner Competition and the T-Shirt Design Competition. The winning image of the Website Banner Competition will also be used for the program covers, onsite signage, PowerPoint slides, bulk emails, printed materials, and other places where needed. […]

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