How we make saccades: selection, control, integration

Friday, May 13, 2022, 2:30 – 4:30 pm EDT, Talk Room 1 Organizers: Emma Stewart1, Bianca R. Baltaretu1; 1Justus-Liebig University Giessen, GermanyPresenters: Jacqueline Gottlieb, Michele Basso, J. Patrick Mayo, J. Douglas Crawford, Alexander C. Schütz < Back to 2022 Symposia Everyday behaviour is facilitated by our ability to correctly locate and fixate pertinent objects and […]

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 […]

2023 Graphics Competition

VSS is seeking outstanding creative visual images for the 2023 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. […]

2022 Annual Business Meeting

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, including the outlook and priorities for next year’s meeting. The Business Meeting is an opportunity for VSS members to ask questions of the VSS Board of Directors […]

2022 Graphics Competition Winners

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, Program Cover and 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 […]

How to setup multi-user eye tracking experiments in VR and collect data

Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 2:30 – 3:30 pm EDT, Zoom Session Organizers: Matthias Pusch, WorldViz; Andrew Beall, WorldViz WorldViz VR will teach participants how to set up and perform Multi-User eye tracking studies in VR using Python and a GUI based configurator. We will explain drag and drop methods for adding 360 videos and 3D […]

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 […]

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