Virtual Systems Vision Science Symposium

July 31, 2026, 2-6 pm (German Time)

taking place after the end of the Virtual Systems Vision Science Summer School

Program

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 Daniel Anthes

Institute of Cognitive Science , Osnabrück University

 Invited Speech:
„The illusory simplicity of the feedforward sweep”
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 Angela Renton

Department of Basic Neuroscience,
University of Geneva

 Contributed Speech:
„What to expect when you’re not attending: Elucidating the role of predictive visual processing in facilitating sustained vigilance“
15:30-15:45 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“
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 Winrich Freiwald

Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University

 Invited Speech:
„From objects to action symbols“		  
16:30-16:45 Marisa Carrasco

Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science,
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 Zygmunt Pizlo
Department of Cognitive Sciences,
University of California-Irvine		 Invited Speech:
„Mathematical foundations of Gestalt psychophysics.“
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“