— We are now calling for Registration for the Virtual Systems Vision Science Symposium 2026 —

The Systems Vision Science Symposium takes place online (Zoom) on Friday, July 31st, 2-6 pm german time  after the end of the Virtual Systems Vision Science Summer School.

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Schedule of Events – Virtual SVS Symposium 2026

July 31st, 2 -6 pm (german time)
14:00-14:30 Wu Li
State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University		 Keynote Speech:
“Corticocortical Feedback as a Unifying Mechanism for Visual Perception and Learning”
14:30-14:45 Zygmunt Pizlo
Department of Cognitive Sciences,
University of California-Irvine		 Invited Speech:
„Mathematical foundations of Gestalt psychophysics.“
14:45-15:00 Tatia Buidze

Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London (UCL)

 Contributed Speech:
„Outcome history shapes implicit perceptual learning without awareness of the eye of origin“
15:00-15:15 Pinglei Bao

School of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University

 Invited Speech:
“Triple-N Dataset: Linking Single Neurons, Deep Neural Networks, and Natural Vision”
15:15-15:30 Lisa Kroell

Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Intelligence

 Invited Speech:
„Predictive foveal processing in active vision“
15:30-15:45 Winrich Freiwald

Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

 Invited Speech:
„From objects to action symbols“
15:45-16:00 Virtual Coffee Break
16:00-16:15 Marlene Behrmann

Visual Brain Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh

 Invited Speech:
„Understanding human vision through studying its breakdown“
16:15-16:30 Li Zhaoping

Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics and University of Tübingen

 Contributed Speech:
„Ventral stream feedback to V1 is focused on the central visual field:
Anatomical evidence for the looking-and-seeing framework of vision“
16:30-16:45 Marisa Carrasco

Department of Psychology,
New York University

 Invited Speech:
„Dissecting Covert Attention: A Cortical Double Dissociation“
16:45-17:00 Bruno Rossion

Université de Lorraine – CNRS

 Contributed Speech:
„The cellular basis of the human face inversion effect“
17:00-17:15 Daniel Anthes

Institute of Cognitive Science , Osnabrück University

 Invited Speech:
„The illusory simplicity of the feedforward sweep”
17:15-17:30 Shahin Nasr

Harvard Medical School

 Contributed Speech:
“ Mesoscale developmental rivalry in human extrastriate visual cortex“
17:30-18:00 Patrick Cavanagh
Centre for Vision Research, York University		 Keynote Speech:
„Using Illusions and Art to Understand the Visual Brain“

Registration without contribution

The symposium will include 2 key note speeches (30 minutes each) and invited and contributed speeches (15 minutes each). The topics of the presentations will be any topic of Systems Vision Science,
which combines computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover and investigate functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions and their implementations in neural circuits.

To register, please use the Google Form on the right side ⇒
or click the button below.

Registration without contribution is open until capacity is reached.

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