Program for Virtual Systems Vision Science Symposium 2024

Friday, July 12th (all times are german time)

15:00 – 15:30 Keynote Speech 1:

“Feedback processing in human visual cortex”

 

Sheng He

State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, Institute of Biophysics, CAS

15:30 – 15:45 Invited Speech:

“Visual motion perception of humans and machines”

Shin’ya Nishida

Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

15:45 – 16:00 Contributed Speech:

“Transient rewiring in vision”

Danko Nikolic

Robots Go Mental, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

16:00 – 16:15 Invited Speech:

“Connections of central and peripheral vision”

Kristina Visscher

Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham

16:15 – 16:30 Contributed Speech:

“What simulated observers with color vision deficiencies would consider as relevant colors in paintings”

Ramon Fernandez-Gualda

Optics Department, Science Faculty, University of Granada

16:30 – 16:45 Invited Speech:

“Selectivity for binocular disparity in the primate superior colliculus may not be directly inherited from V1”

Incheol Kang

Visual Decision Making Section,
National Eye Institute

16:45 – 17:00 Virtual Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:15 Invited Speech:

“The Position Sense”

Patrick Cavanagh

Centre for Vision Research,
York University

17:15 – 17:30 Invited Speech:

“Evidence for grouping cells in primate visual cortex”

Tom Franken

Department of Neuroscience,
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

17:30 – 17:45 Contributed Speech:

“Commencing visual development with initially degraded inputs may have adaptive value”

Lukas Vogelsang

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

 
17:45 – 18:00 Invited Speech:

“Judging kinship based on combination of facial cues”

Larry Maloney

Department of Psychology
New York University

18: 00 – 18:15 Contributed Speech:

“The relationship between visual acuity loss and GABAergic inhibition in amblyopia”

Betina Ip

Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences,
University of Oxford

18:15 – 18:30 Invited Speech:

“Do we really measure what we think we are measuring?”

Michael Herzog

Brain Mind Institute,
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

18:30 –19:00 Keynote Speech 2:

“Processing partially occluded objects in the primate brain”

Anitha Pasupathy

University of Washington, Department of Biological Structure