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The Systems Vision Science Symposium

The Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place in-person from Wednesday evening, August 20 to Friday, August 22, 2025 in Tuebingen, Germany, at the end of the Systems Vision Science Summer School –before the European Conference on Visual Perception in Mainz (ECVP, August 24 to August 28, 2025).

This year’s keynote speaker is

Tadashi Isa,

August 20, 2025

Schedule of Events – SVS Symposium 2025

Wendesday, August 20, 2025

16:00 – 17:00 Registration (Coffee is served)
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote:

Visuomotor and cognitive capacity in blindsight macaques

 Tadashi Isa
18:00 – 21:00 Poster session and dinner (served at 18:00)

Thursday, August 21, 2025

09:00 – 10:00 The color discrimination psychometric field David Brainard
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee break including snacks  
10:20 – 11:20 Learning to See Stuff: Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties Roland Fleming
11:20 – 11:30 Short Break
11:30 – 12:30 Speculative Phenomenology of Scenic Depiction Jan Koenderink & Andrea van Doorn
12:30 – 14:00 Poster session & lunch
14:00 – 15:00 On the appearance of shapes in the visual periphery: Phenomenology and psychophysics Marco Bertamini
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break including snacks
15:20 – 16:20 Efficient Heuristic Decision Processes in Visual Search and Identification Wilson Geisler
16:20 – 16:45 Break  
16:45 – 17:45 What if it is not Gaussian? Laurence Maloney
18:00 – 21:00 Poster session
& dinner (served at 18:00)

Friday, August 22, 2025

09:00 – 10:00 Feedback processing in the visual brain Sheng He
10:00 – 10:20 Coffee break including snacks
10:20 – 11:20 The central-peripheral dichotomy theory and the reversed depth illusion Li Zhaoping
11:20 – 11:30 Short Break
11:30 – 12:30  Anatomical differences within and across cortical areas representing central and peripheral vision. Marcello Rosa
12:30 – 14:00 Poster session & lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Abstract deliberation by visuomotor neurons in prefrontal cortex Robbe Goris
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break including snacks
15:20 – 16:20 Fusion of visual and somatosensory processing for vicarious perception of human actions Tomas Knapen
16:20 – 16:45 Short Break
16:45 – 17:45 The effect of rhythmic brain states on visual performance Pascal Fries
18:00 – 21:00 BBQ & Wrap-Up

Symposium poster contributions (to be continued)

  • Aksiotis, Vladislav (MPI for Biological Cybernetics): Scalp event-related potentials (ERPs) reflect distinct neural processes for attention shifts, perception, and decision-making in a visual search task
  • Backler, Alex (University of St. Andrew): Multisensory Processing and Redundant Signals Effect in a Steady-State Evoked Potential Paradigm
  • Casey, Elaine (Laboratoire des Systemes Perceptifs): How the Brain Builds Confidence: The Neurobiological Basis of Decision Evaluation
  • Cremer, Maren (European Neuroscience Institute – IMPRS Neurosciences): How do errors in prediction affect learning: Preliminary data from a statistical learning task
  • Cutts, Elam (Univrsity of Alabama at Birmingham): Toward comparing scotomas: Using microperimetry paired with cortical magnification factor to quantify retinal functional health in patients with central vision loss
  • De Paolis, Ludovica (SISSA): Synthesizing and Representing Naturalistic Visual Textures Using Deep Neural Networks
  • Di Domenico, Chiara (SISSA): Seeing in Patterns: How Early Visual Experience Shapes the Encoding of Multipoint Correlations in the Rat Visual Cortex
  • Dizaji, Aslan Satary  (AutocurriculaLab & NeuroAILab & LangTechAI): Dimensionality of intermediate representations of deep neural networks with biological constraints
  • Fatih, Yanik Mehmet  (ETH Zürich):  Months-long tracking of neuronal ensembles spanning multiple brain areas with Ultra-Flexible Tentacle Electrodes
  • Feyzanur , Polat Kamis (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Translucency perception under different texture condition
  • Gabdrashova, Raikhan ( University of Sussex): Locomotion modulates visual adaptation in the mouse retino-collicular circuit
  • Geiger,  Martin (University of Stuttgart, SCCS): EEG correlates of Object Optic Flow
  • Hall, Ole  (TU Berlin): Modelling visual attention in dynamic scenes under partially competing task demands”
  • Hassler, Valentin (University of Göttingen): Curious visual representation learning in humans and machines
  • Houborg, Christian (Justus-Liebig University Gießen): Effects of imagined material on the perception of weight in the material-weight illusion.
  • Huang, Changzhi (School of Psychology, South China Normal University):  Increases vs. Decreases: Asymmetric Effects of Contrast Changes during Binocular Rivalry Modulated by Awareness of Perceptual Switch
  • Ke, Yidi (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg): Evidence for rich posterior representations from discrete encoding models of V1
  • Kong, Yue (Université Paris Cité): Oscillatory Traveling Waves in Visual Search
  • Liang, Junhao (Sun Yat-Sen University) & Zhaoping, Li (MPI for Biological Cybernetics): Trans-saccadic integration for object recognition peters out with pre-saccadic object eccentricity as target-directed saccades become more saliency-driven
  • Oluk, Can  (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)): Maximum likelihood estimates in visual categorization tasks are biased when pairwisediscriminabilities are imbalanced
  • Partodezfouli, Mohsen (MPI for Biological Cybernetics): Distractor Responses Reveal Beta-Band Modulation Associated with Response Inhibition
  • Popadina, Alina (Aalto University): Beyond Pop-Out Paradigm: Investigating the Principles Underlying Efficiency of Visual Search
  • Qadir, Zeeshan (Mayo Clinic – Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (MCGSBS) Rochester): Dynamic representation of stimulus information in human vision
  • Ramadan, Dana (MPI for Biological Cybernetics): Visual population rceptive field mapping using BSSFP at submillimeter resolution: Initial results
  • Reichert, Jannik (University of Tübingen, IMPRS-IS): A Modular Psychophysical Spatial Vision Model
  • Sepe, Alessia  (KU Leuven): Behavioral and Retinotopic Signatures of Residual Visuomotor Functions in V1-Lesioned Monkeys
  • Solis, John Oscar  (University of York): The neural correlates of the relationship between image complexity and memorability
  • Todorovic, Dejan (University of Belgrade, Serbia): Emerging 2D patterns of distributions of neural activity of V1 cells may underlie a class of orientation illusions: a computational model and simulations
  • Trimbake, Pradeepkumar (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): Contrast selective neuronal (L2) response properties under colored noise stimulation
  • van Dael, Lies (Forschungszentrum Juelich & RWTH Aachen University): Cortical multi-area model with joint excitatory-inhibitory clusters accounts for spiking statistics, inter-area propagation, and variability dynamics
  • van Zantwijk,  Laura (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The Recovery From Visual Adaptation in The Perception of Causality
  • Victor, Jonathan D.  (Weill Cornell Medical College): Task-dependent modulation of similarity judgments
  • Wang, Penghan (Mc Gill University ): From Fine to Coarse, Crossed to Uncrossed: Mapping Mechanistic Divergences in Human Stereopsis
  • Xu, Jiaming (University of Texas at Austin): Temporal Straightening as a Predictive Mechanism in Human Language Processing
  • Zhang, Yufeng (MPI for Biological Cybernetics):  A Controlled Foraging Task for Studying Natural Vision
  • Zhaoping, Li (MPI for Biological Cybernetics): Looking with and without seeing in an individual with macular degeneration impairing central vision

Participation in the symposium with or without contribution

Non-presenters are also invited to register and enjoy all benefits of the symposium until venue capacity of 100 people (including invited speakers and summer school participants) is reached. Priority will be given to people submitting a contribution.

Submitting a contribution will no longer be possible after April 30, 2025  June 1, 2025 but registration without contribution is open until capacity or deadline for organization is reached.

For registration without contribution please use this form and send it, saved as pdf and named “svs_symposium_Last Name_First Name”, to svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de. You will get a confirmation e-mail after receipt of your submission – if you don’t get a message of receipt within a day, please contact us.

Presentation guidelines

All posters should be presented on one page and in “portrait” orientation. To maximize exchanges during the symposium, the posters will be displayed throughout the symposium, which includes five poster sessions (two daytime sessions and three evening sessions), in a venue next to the lecture hall and coffee breaks to give enough time for discussions, networking and knowledge exchange.

Anyone who submits an abstract agrees to have the presentation in-person in Tuebingen, Germany.

Registration and payment

Registration fee for all participants is 180 € covering costs including coffee breaks, lunch, dinner as well as the closing event (barbecue) and other symposium operations.

Registrations fees must be paid via bank transfer only and are not refundable.

Participants of the symposium need to arrange and pay for their own travel and accommodations. Recommendations for accommodation in Tuebingen can be found here.

 

Important dates

Submit your contribution until Wednesday, April 30, 2025  Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Notification of acceptance of your contribution latest by May 25, 2025 (correspondingly longer for submission after April 30) and please confirm your participation latest by June 25, 2025 by payment.

Wednesday evening, August 20 to Friday, August 22, 2025 Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place.

Registration for participation without contribution to the Systems Vision Science Symposium will be possible until capacity or deadline for organization is reached. You will get notice if we have a confirmed spot for you at our symposium latest 1 week after your registration, but earliest on May 25, 2025. Please secure your spot by payment within 1 week after our notification.

 

For questions please contact svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de