Schedule of Events

Display  sessions

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS)

Satellite

Blue Heron

Thursday, May 14, 2026

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS)

Satellite

Blue Heron

4:00 - 7:00 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

Friday, May 15, 2026

7:00 - 8:00 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard

7:00 am - 6:00 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Quiet Lounge

Lounge

Compass

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Social Lounge

Lounge

Royal Tern

8:00 - 10:00 am

Intuitive physical reasoning in brains, minds, and machines

Symposium

Talk Room 1

8:00 - 10:00 am

Rhythms of Vision: How Neural Oscillations Structure Perception and Attention

Symposium

Talk Room 2

10:00 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

What makes a task naturalistic? Towards a theory-inspired approach to studying visually guided behaviour

Symposium

Talk Room 1

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century

Symposium

Talk Room 2

12:30 - 1:45 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Break

Garden Courtyard

12:45 - 1:45 pm

Funding workshop

Workshop

Banyan/Citrus

1:45 - 3:45 pm

Beyond Prediction: Interpretable Brain Encoding Models for Understanding Vision

Symposium

Talk Room 1

1:45 - 3:45 pm

The quest for 'the average person' in vision science: promise and pitfalls

Symposium

Talk Room 2

3:45 - 4:15 pm

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard

3:45 - 6:00 pm

Friday Afternoon Posters
Visual Working Memory: Performance, influences
Multisensory Processing: Motor
Multisensory Processing: Visual-tactile
Eye Movements: Cognition
Eye Movements: Pursuit, vergence
Face and Body Perception: Social cognition 1
Temporal Processing: Duration and timing perception
Functional Organization of Visual Pathways: Cortical visual processing 1

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

4:15 - 5:45 pm

Attention 1

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

4:15 - 5:45 pm

Perceptual Organization: Neural mechanisms

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

5:45 - 7:30 pm

Newcomers & Undergrad socials

Social

Banyan/Citrus

7:30 - 9:30 pm

Opening Night Reception

Social

RumFish Beach

Saturday, May 16, 2026

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Quiet Lounge

Lounge

Compass

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Social Lounge

Lounge

Royal Tern

7:30 am - 6:45 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

8:00 am - 5:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Pavilion

8:15 - 9:45 am

Eye Movements: Neural dynamics, perceptual changes

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Perceptual Organization: Segmentation and grouping

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Saturday Morning Posters
Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity: Psychophysics
Visual Working Memory: Interactions with long-term memory
Visual Working Memory: Interference, attention
Scene Perception: Models, natural image statistics
Scene Perception: Intuitive physics

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Saturday Morning Posters
Object Recognition: Reading
3D Shape and Space Perception: Cues, integration
3D Shape and Space Perception: Surfaces, objects
Attention: Neural
Functional Organization of Visual Pathways: Cortical visual processing 2
Face and Body Perception: Models
Decision Making: Perception 1
Action: Navigation, locomotion
Action: Miscellaneous

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Spatial Vision: Neural mechanisms, modeling

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Face and Body Perception: Mechanisms

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

12:30 - 2:30 pm

Canadian Vision Science Social

Satellite

Sabal/Sawgrass

12:30 - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Break

Garden Courtyard

12:45 - 2:15 pm

Virtual Reality & Eye Tracking (WorldViz)

Satellite

Blue Heron

12:45 - 2:15 pm

AI in Science: Opportunities and Boundaries

Workshop

Banyan/Citrus

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Functional Organization of Visual Pathways 1

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Temporal Processing

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Saturday Afternoon Posters
Spatial Vision: Clinical
Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity: Rehabilitation
Visual Search: Search strategies, clinical
Visual Search: Attention, memory, decision-making

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Saturday Afternoon Posters
Attention: Endogenous, exogenous
Attention: Features, objects
Perceptual Organization: Features, parts, wholes, objects
Visual Memory: Objects, features
Color, Light and Materials: Material perception
Color, Light and Materials: Affect, cognition
Theory
Multisensory Processing: Recalibration, temporal

Poster Session

Pavilion

4:15 - 5:00 pm

Afternoon Coffee & Snack

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

5:15 - 7:00 pm

Scene Perception

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

5:15 - 7:00 pm

Visual Working Memory: Influences, models

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

7:30 - 8:30 pm

Keynote Address given by Michael Chiang

Keynote

Talk Room 1-2

Sunday, May 17, 2026

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Quiet Lounge

Lounge

Compass

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Social Lounge

Lounge

Royal Tern

7:30 am - 6:45 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

8:00 am - 5:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Pavilion

8:15 - 9:45 am

Attention 2

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Object Recognition

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning Posters
Color, Light and Materials: Adaptation, contrast, lightness, brightness
Perceptual Organization: Ensembles
Perceptual Organization: Individual differences, aesthetics
Scene Perception: Neural mechanisms
Scene Perception: Spatiotemporal factors

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Sunday Morning Posters
Functional Organization of Visual Pathways: Subcortical, clinical
Functional Organization of Visual Pathways: Neuroimaging
3D Shape and Space Perception: Miscellaneous
Eye Movements: Individual differences, visual preference
Eye Movements: Mechanisms, perception, fixational
Eye Movements: Saccades
Face and Body Perception: Wholes, parts, configurations, features
Decision Making: Perception 2

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Multisensory Processing

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:30 pm

Visual Working Memory: Space, features

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

12:30 - 2:30 pm

Networking Event

Networking

Sabal/Sawgrass

12:30 - 2:30 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Break

Garden Courtyard

12:45 - 2:15 pm

In-silico replications

Satellite

Blue Heron

12:45 - 2:15 pm

Visual Snow Meet-Up

Satellite

Horizons West

12:45 - 2:15 pm

VISxVISION Workshop

Satellite

Banyan/Citrus

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Development

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

2:30 - 4:15 pm

Face and Body Perception: Emotion, identity

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Sunday Afternoon Posters
Visual Memory: Long-term memory
Visual Memory: Encoding and retrieval, capacity
Spatial Vision: Natural images, texture
Spatial Vision: Neural mechanisms
Spatial Vision: Crowding, eccentricity

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Sunday Afternoon Posters
Color, Light and Materials: Neural mechanisms
Eye Movements: Models, remapping
Eye Movements: Pupillometry
Visual Search: Features, scenes, real-world stimuli
Visual Search: Neural mechanisms, models, eye movements
Attention: Inattention, attentional blindness
Attention: Spatial
Attention: Individual differences

Poster Session

Pavilion

4:15 - 5:00 pm

Afternoon Coffee & Snack

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Action

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

7:30 - 9:00 pm

CSHL Vision Courses Meet-up

Satellite

Snowy Egret

7:30 - 9:00 pm

FoVea Workshop: What Is This Job Anyway?

Satellite

Banyan/Citrus

Monday, May 18, 2026

7:00 am - 2:30 pm

VSS Quiet Lounge

Lounge

Compass

7:00 am - 2:30 pm

VSS Social Lounge

Lounge

Royal Tern

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

7:45 am - 2:30 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

8:00 am - 12:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Pavilion

8:15 - 9:45 am

Attention 3

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

3D Shape and Space Perception

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Monday Morning Posters
Object recognition: Categories
Object Recognition: Features, parts
Face and Body Perception: Social cognition 2
Face and Body Perception: Individual differences
Face and Body Perception: Bodies
Functional Organization of Visual Pathways: Retinotopy, population receptive fields

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Monday Morning Posters
Spatial Vision: Binocular vision
Eye Movements: Natural, complex tasks
Eye Movements: Clinical
Action: Reaching
Action: Grasping, affordances
Decision Making: Actions, metacognition
Motion: Illusions
Motion: Optic flow, in-depth, biological, higher-order
Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity: Statistical learning
Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity: Category learning

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Visual Search: Attention, mechanisms, models

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Visual Memory: Encoding, retrieval, capacity

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

12:30 - 2:00 pm

VSS Awards Session

Award

Talk Room 2

2:00 - 3:00 pm

3MT Competition for Students and Postdocs

Student

Offsite

2:00 - 3:30 pm

Demystifying Peer Review: Editorial Insight and Perspectives

Workshop

Banyan/Citrus

2:00 - 5:30 pm

Re:Vision: A community replication initiative

Satellite

Blue Heron

2:00 - 6:00 pm

PURSUE Workshop

Satellite

Horizons West

3:00 - 4:00 pm

Public Lecture: Bevil Conway

Other

Offsite

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Meet the Professors

Student

Banyan Breezeway

7:00 - 10:00 pm

Demo Night

Social

Talk Room 1-2

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Quiet Lounge

Lounge

Compass

7:00 am - 10:00 pm

VSS Social Lounge

Lounge

Royal Tern

7:45 - 8:45 am

Morning Coffee & Continental Breakfast

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

7:45 am - 7:30 pm

Registration Open

Registration

Grand Palm Colonnade

8:00 am - 5:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Pavilion

8:15 - 9:45 am

Visual Search: Real-world scenes, objects

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

8:15 - 9:45 am

Functional Organization of Visual Pathways 2

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tuesday Morning Posters
Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity: Neural mechanisms
Perceptual Training, Learning and Plasticity: Neuroimaging, neurostimulation
Perceptual Organization: Intuitive physics
Perceptual Organization: Grouping
Scene Perception: Ensemble
Scene Perception: Virtual reality
Scene Perception: Categorization, memory
Visual Working Memory: Models, neural

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tuesday Morning Posters
Attention: Capture 1
Attention: Models
Temporal Processing: Neural mechanisms, models
Motion: Mechanisms, models
Action: Pointing, tracking
Action: Perception, recognition
Multisensory Processing: Cross-modal interactions
Face and Body Perception: Development, clinical
Development

Poster Session

Pavilion

9:45 - 10:30 am

Coffee Break

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Visual Memory: Individual differences, imagery

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

Decision Making

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

12:15 - 1:15 pm

VSS Business Meeting

Business

Talk Room 2

1:00 - 2:45 pm

phiVis: Philosophy of Vision Science

Satellite

Banyan/Citrus

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Connect with Industry

Networking

Spotted Curlew

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Connect with Industry

Networking

Blue Heron

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Connect with Industry

Networking

Snowy Egret

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Synchronizing and Coordinating Multiple Data Acquisition Devices

Satellite

Horizons West

1:15 - 2:45 pm

Lunch (on your own)

Break

Garden Courtyard

2:45 - 4:30 pm

Theory

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

2:45 - 4:30 pm

Eye Movements: Mechanisms, naturalistic viewing

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Tuesday Afternoon Posters
Visual Memory: Imagery
Visual Memory: Mechanisms, models, individual differences
Face and Body Perception: Neural mechanisms
Face and Body Perception: Emotion

Poster Session

Banyan Breezeway

2:45 - 6:45 pm

Tuesday Afternoon Posters
Visual Working Memory: Spatial
Visual Working Memory: Objects, features
Object Recognition: Models
Perceptual Organization: Neural mechanisms, models
Attention: Capture 2
Attention: Temporal
Attention: Reward
Multisensory Processing: Audiovisual

Poster Session

Pavilion

4:30 - 5:15 pm

Afternoon Coffee & Snack

Break

Garden Courtyard & Pavilion

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Color, Light and Materials

Talk Session

Talk Room 1

5:15 - 7:15 pm

Motion: Neural mechanisms, models and illusions

Talk Session

Talk Room 2

8:30 - 10:00 pm

Visibility Social

Social

Banyan/Citrus

9:00 pm - 2:00 am

Chill Vision

Social

Palm/Sabal/Sawgrass

10:00 pm - 2:00 am

Club Vision

Social

Talk Room 1-2