2023 Workshop for PhD Students and Postdocs

Strategies for Funding your Research Ideas Around the Globe Saturday, May 20, 2023, 12:45 – 2:15 pm, Sabal/Sawgrass Moderator: Krystel Huxlin, University of Rochester, USAPanelists: Reuben Rideaux, University of Sydney; Martin Rolfs, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Miriam Spering, University of British Columbia Success in obtaining grant funding for your research ideas is a hallmark of success […]

Call for Applications for Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee

Applications Are Now Open for the VSS Student-Postdoctoral Advisory Committee (SPC) The Vision Sciences Society (VSS) is seeking applications for three vacancies on its Student-Postdoctoral Advisory Committee (SPC). Members of the SPC are graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The SPC works together and with the members of the VSS Board of Directors to enhance VSS’s […]

Publication Opportunity for VSS Members Announced by FABBS

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, […]

2023 Keynote – Hany Farid

Hany Farid Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information, University of California Berkeley Hany Farid is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics, forensic science, misinformation, and human perception. Dr. Farid received his […]

The interplay of visual memory and high-level vision

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 12:00 – 2:00 pm EDT, Zoom Session Organizer: Sharon Gilaie-Dotan1,2; 1Bar Ilan University, 2UCLPresenters: Timothy F Brady, Noa Ofen, Sharon Gilaie-Dotan, Yoni Pertzov, Galit Yovel, Meike Ramon < Back to 2022 Symposia While different studies show phenomenal human long term visual memory capacity, there are also indications that visual long term […]

Understanding mesoscale visual processing through the lens of high-resolution functional MRI

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 12:00 – 2:00 pm EDT, Zoom Session Organizer: Shahin Nasr1,2,3; 1Massachusetts General Hospital, 2Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, 3Harvard Medical SchoolPresenters: Shahin Nasr, Yulia Lazarova, Luca Vizioli, Roger Tootell < Back to 2022 Symposia In the past twenty years, with the increase in popularity of high-resolution neuroimaging techniques, we […]

The probabilistic nature of vision: How should we evaluate the empirical evidence?

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 […]

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