Undergraduate Travel Award

VSS is proud to introduce Undergraduate Travel Award.  VSS has been increasing its efforts to attract undergraduate students to the annual meeting, including the Undergraduate Just-in-Time poster session and the Undergraduate Meet and Greet event. Now, we are asking those members who would like to support the future of our field by contributing directly to support […]

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 […]

2023 Symposia

Critical Perspectives On Vision Science: Towards Unbiasing Our Methods and Role in Knowledge Production Friday, May 19, 2023, 12:00 – 2:00 pm, Talk Room 1 Organizers: Eline Kupers1, Kathryn Graves2, Kimele Persaud3; 1Stanford University, 2Yale University, 3Rutgers University Discussions around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have become commonplace in academia and have resulted in new […]

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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