Beyond representation and attention: Cognitive modulations of activity in visual cortex

Friday, May 13, 2022, 12:00 – 2:00 pm EDT, Talk Room 2 Organizers: Alex White1, Kendrick Kay2; 1Barnard College, Columbia University, 2University of MinnesotaPresenters: Alex L. White, Clare Press, Charlie S. Burlingham, Clayton E. Curtis, Jesse Breedlove < Back to 2022 Symposia The concept of sensory representation has been immensely productive for studying visual cortex, […]

Beyond objects and features: High-level relations in visual perception

Friday, May 13, 2022, 12:00 – 2:00 pm EDT, Talk Room 1 Organizers: Chaz Firestone1, Alon Hafri1; 1Johns Hopkins UniversityPresenters: Alon Hafri, Melissa Le-Hoa Võ, Liuba Papeo, Daniel Kaiser, Hongjing Lu < Back to 2022 Symposia A typical VSS program devotes sections to low-level properties such as motion, orientation, and location; higher-level properties such as […]

Health and Safety Protocols

The Vision Sciences Society strongly encourages attendees of the VSS meeting to ensure that their COVID-19 vaccinations are up to date prior to the meeting. Attendees are also strongly encouraged to wear masks at the conference, particularly in densely attended settings such as talk sessions and poster halls (especially when not presenting).  VSS may change […]

Code of Conduct

The Vision Sciences Society (VSS) is dedicated to the open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression. We are committed to running a successful meeting that fosters collegiality and celebrates the diversity of the Vision Sciences community. These aims and goals require an environment that recognizes the inherent worth of every person […]

LabMaestro Pack&Go: a new tool for running MATLAB/Psychtoolbox experiments online

Thursday, June 2, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT, Zoom Session Organizers: Lindsey Fraser, VPixx Technologies; Amanda Estephan, VPixx Technologies Last year at V-VSS 2021, VPixx Technologies introduced a new software tool under development: LabMaestro Pack&Go, a solution for conducting MATLAB/Psychtoolbox experiments online. In this virtual satellite talk, VPixx Staff Scientists will present the current […]

Open Science Workshop on Preregistration for Program

Organizers: Sabrina Hansmann-Roth, University of Lille; Björn Jörges, York University Moderator: Sabrina Hansmann-Roth, University of LilleSpeakers: William Ngiam, University of Chicago; Janna Wennberg, UC San Diego Preregistration has been proposed as a tool to accelerate scientific advancement by making scientific results more robust, more reproducible, and more replicable. In this workshop, we will briefly go […]

LabMaestro Pack&Go: a new tool for running MATLAB/Psychtoolbox experiments online

Monday, May 16, 2022, 3:15 – 4:30 pm EDT, Horizons Organizers: Lindsey Fraser, VPixx Technologies; Amanda Estephan, VPixx Technologies Last year at V-VSS 2021, VPixx Technologies introduced a new software tool under development: LabMaestro Pack&Go, a solution for conducting MATLAB/Psychtoolbox experiments online. In this satellite talk, VPixx Staff Scientists will present the current status of […]

2022 phiVis: Philosophy of Vision Science Workshop

Monday, May 16, 2022, 3:30 – 5:30 pm EDT, Blue Heron Organizers: Kevin Lande, Department of Philosophy & Centre for Vision Research, York University; Chaz Firestone, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University The past decade has seen a resurgence in conversation between vision science and philosophy of perception on questions of fundamental […]

INCF/MathWorks Psychophysics Working Group

Monday, May 16, 2022, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EDT, Sabal/Sawgrass Organizers: Vijay Iyer, MathWorks & Malin Sandström INCF The planned INCF/MathWorks Psychophysics Working Group aims to be an international group facilitating regular and active coordination among users and developers of various open access software tools for conducting psychophysics experiments while building upon the MATLAB™ software platform from […]

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