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 […]
Each year, VSS solicits its membership to submit creative visual images related to the field of vision science, the Society, or the VSS meeting. There are two competitions,Website Banner Competition and the T-Shirt Design Competition. Winning graphic images are featured on the program, abstracts book, signage, and t-shirts. The Vision Sciences Society is pleased to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Friday, May 13, 2022, 2:30 – 4:30 pm EDT, Talk Room 2 Organizers: Dirk B. Walther1, James Elder2; 1University of Toronto, 2York UniversityPresenters: James Elder, Thomas Serre, Anitha Pasupathy, Mary A. Peterson, Pieter Roelfsema, Dirk B. Walther < Back to 2022 Symposia A principal challenge for both biological and machine vision systems is to integrate […]
