Schedule of Events

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS)	Satellite	Blue Heron
Thursday, May 15, 2025
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 16, 2025
7:00 - 8:00 am	Morning Coffee and Continental Breakfast	Break	Garden Courtyard
7:00 am - 6:00 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Grand Palm Colonnade
7:00 am - 9:00 pm	VSS Quiet Lounge	Lounge	Compass
7:00 am - 9:00 pm	VSS Social Lounge	Lounge	Royal Tern
8:00 - 10:00 am	The influence of language in higher-level visual cortex	Symposium	Talk Room 1
8:00 - 10:00 am	A vision scientist walks into a clinic...	Symposium	Talk Room 2
10:00 - 10:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Selective Visual Attention, Alive and Well!	Symposium	Talk Room 1
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	25 Years of Seeing 'Stuff' - Advances and Challenges in Material Perception	Symposium	Talk Room 2
12:00 - 12:30 pm	Coffee Break / Lunch (on your own) Lunch Available for Purchase in Garden Courtyard 11:30 - 2:30	Break	Garden Courtyard
1:00 - 3:00 pm	From insects to fish to mammals: Active vision in non-primate organisms	Symposium	Talk Room 1
1:00 - 3:00 pm	Model-optimized stimuli: more than just pretty pictures	Symposium	Talk Room 2
3:00 - 3:30 pm	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard
3:00 - 5:00 pm	Friday Afternoon Posters Visual Search: Memory Visual Search: Features, objects Decision Making: Perception Action: Navigation and locomotion Action: Miscellaneous Attention: Inattention, load Attention: Individual differences	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
3:30 - 4:45 pm	Eye Movements: Natural tasks, neural mechanisms	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
3:30 - 4:45 pm	Perceptual Organization: Neural mechanisms, models	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
4:45 - 5:15 pm	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard
5:15 - 7:15 pm	Honoring the Contributions of Eileen Kowler: Eye Movements as Windows to the Mind	Symposium	Talk Room 2
7:15 - 8:15 pm	VSS Undergrad Meetup — it all starts here!	Social	Banyan/Citrus
7:15 - 8:15 pm	VSS Newcomer Lemonade Social	Social	Pirate Island
7:30 - 9:30 pm	Opening Night Reception	Social	Beach
Saturday, May 17, 2025
7:30 am - 6:45 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Grand Palm Colonnade
7:30 am - 9:30 pm	VSS Quiet Lounge	Lounge	Compass
7:30 am - 9:30 pm	VSS Social Lounge	Lounge	Royal Tern
7:45 - 8:45 am	Morning Coffee and Continental Breakfast	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
8:00 am - 5:30 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Pavilion
8:15 - 9:45 am	Attention: Neural, objects, models	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
8:15 - 9:45 am	3D Processing	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Saturday Morning Posters Plasticity and Learning: Clinical Plasticity and Learning: Models Visual Memory: Neural mechanisms Visual Memory: Encoding and retrieval Visual Memory: Objects and features Perceptual Organization: Segmentation, grouping	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Saturday Morning Posters Face and Body Perception: Experience, learning, expertise Face and Body Perception: Individual differences Face and Body Perception: Neural Face and Body Perception: Emotion Spatial Vision: Clinical Visual Memory: Models Theory Multisensory Processing: Visual-haptic and visual-vestibular integration	Poster Session	Pavilion
9:45 - 10:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
10:45 am - 12:30 pm	Object Recognition: Categories and neural mechanisms	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
10:45 am - 12:30 pm	Temporal Processing	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
12:30 - 2:30 pm	Lunch (on your own) Lunch Available for Purchase in Garden Courtyard 11:30 - 2:30	Break	Garden Courtyard
12:45 - 2:15 pm	Virtual Reality + Eye Tracking for Research Organized by WorldViz VR	Satellite	Blue Heron
12:45 - 2:15 pm	Open Science & Publishing Workshop Organized by the VSS Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPC)	Workshop	Banyan/Citrus
12:45 - 2:15 pm	Science across Countries and Cultures: Does Difference make a Difference?	Workshop	Sabal/Sawgrass
2:30 - 4:15 pm	Visual memory: General	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
2:30 - 4:15 pm	Face and Body Perception: Facial expressions, social relationships	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
2:45 - 6:45 pm	Saturday Afternoon Posters Eye Movements: Models, clinical, context Object Recognition: Reading Object Recognition: Frames of reference Perceptual Organization: Serial dependence Perceptual Organization: Neural mechanisms	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
2:45 - 6:45 pm	Saturday Afternoon Posters Attention: Neural, spatial Attention: Reward Attention: Divided, tracking Multisensory Processing: Audiovisual integration Color, Light and Materials: Adaptation, constancy and cognition Color, Light and Materials: Surfaces and materials Motion: Illusions Motion: Biological, self-motion Temporal Processing: Duration, timing perception Temporal Processing: Clinical	Poster Session	Pavilion
4:15 - 5:00 pm	Afternoon Coffee and Snack Sponsored by The Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
5:15 - 7:00 pm	Decision Making	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
5:15 - 7:00 pm	Visual Search	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
7:30 - 8:30 pm	Keynote Lecture given by Anne Churchland The intersection of vision and movements in the mammalian brain	Keynote	Talk Room 2
Sunday, May 18, 2025
7:30 am - 6:45 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Grand Palm Colonnade
7:30 am - 9:30 pm	VSS Quiet Lounge	Lounge	Compass
7:30 am - 9:30 pm	VSS Social Lounge	Lounge	Royal Tern
7:45 - 8:45 am	Morning Coffee and Continental Breakfast	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
8:00 am - 5:30 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Pavilion
8:15 - 9:45 am	Spatial Vision: Crowding and eccentricity, clinical, models	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
8:15 - 9:45 am	Development	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Sunday Morning Posters Perceptual Organization: Ensembles 3D Processing: Shape Scene Perception: Ensemble Visual Search: Eye movements, scenes, real-world stimuli Undergraduate Just-In-Time 1	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Sunday Morning Posters Action: Grasping, reaching, pointing, affordances Action: Perception and recognition Eye Movements: Saccades, remapping Eye Movements: Pursuit, learning, vergence Eye Movements: Neural mechanisms Binocular Vision: Rivalry and bistability, stereopsis, models, neural mechanisms Binocular Vision: Clinical, perception Attention: Neural mechanisms Attention: Spatial	Poster Session	Pavilion
9:45 - 10:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
10:45 am - 12:30 pm	Visual Memory: Neural mechanisms of working memory	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
10:45 am - 12:30 pm	Object Recognition: Models	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) Lunch Available for Purchase in Garden Courtyard 11:30 - 2:30	Break	Garden Courtyard
12:45 - 2:15 pm	Making Vision Fun: Novel Approaches to Teaching	Satellite	Blue Heron
12:45 - 2:15 pm	Hands-on Data Visualization Brown Bag	Satellite	Glades
2:30 - 4:15 pm	Perceptual Organization: Objects, events, ensembles	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
2:30 - 4:15 pm	Binocular Vision	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
2:45 - 6:45 pm	Sunday Afternoon Posters Visual Search: Models, strategy, sequential effects, context Decision Making: Actions Decision Making: Models Spatial Vision: Natural image statistics, texture Face and Body Perception: Body	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
2:45 - 6:45 pm	Sunday Afternoon Posters Visual Memory: Capacity and encoding of working memory Plasticity and Learning: Adaptation Development: Neural Development: Amblyopia, binocular Development: Infants, children Eye Movements: Pupillometry Eye Movements: Perception, fixational eye movements Motion: Local, higher-order, in-depth Motion: Models, neural mechanisms Multisensory Processing: Perception, neural, clinical	Poster Session	Pavilion
4:15 - 5:00 pm	Afternoon Coffee and Snack Sponsored by The Center for Visual Science (CVS) at the University of Rochester	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
5:15 - 7:15 pm	Attention: Neural mechanisms	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
5:15 - 7:15 pm	Color, Light and Materials: Cones to cognition	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
7:15 - 8:45 pm	FoVea: The hidden curriculum in vision sciences	Satellite	Banyan/Citrus
Monday, May 19, 2025
7:30 am - 2:30 pm	VSS Quiet Lounge	Lounge	Compass
7:30 am - 2:30 pm	VSS Social Lounge	Lounge	Royal Tern
7:45 - 8:45 am	Morning Coffee and 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	Action	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
8:15 - 9:45 am	Theory: Artificial neural networks	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Monday Morning Posters Visual Memory: Imagery, long-term Visual Memory: Memorability Visual Search: Attention, clinical Face and Body Perception: Parts and wholes	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Monday Morning Posters Plasticity and Learning: Perceptual learning Attention: Temporal Attention: Features, objects Object Recognition: Neural mechanisms Object Recognition: Categories Perceptual Organization: Parts, wholes, shapes and objects Spatial Vision: Crowding and eccentricity Color, Light and Materials: Optics, models Color, Light and Materials: Lightness and brightness	Poster Session	Pavilion
9:45 - 10:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Eye Movements: Gaze strategies	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Multisensory Processing	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
12:15 - 12:30 pm	Coffee Break / Lunch (on your own) Lunch Available for Purchase in Garden Courtyard 11:30 - 2:30	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
12:30 - 2:30 pm	VSS Awards Session Davida Teller Award, Ken Nakayama Medal, Young Investigator Talks, 25th Anniversary Awards	Award	Talk Room 2
2:30 - 4:00 pm	The AI Revolution in Visual Science Organized by the VSS Student-Postdoc Advisory Committee (SPC)	Workshop	Banyan/Citrus
2:30 - 4:00 pm	Psychophysics Software with MATLAB	Satellite	Jasmine/Palm
2:30 - 5:30 pm	Readability Workshop 2: Inclusive Metrics and Design	Satellite	Blue Heron
2:30 - 5:30 pm	plenoptic: synthesizing images to understand models	Satellite	Snowy Egret
3:00 - 4:00 pm	VSS Public Lecture given by Patrick Cavanagh Using Illusions and Art to Understand the Visual Brain	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 20, 2025
7:30 am - 9:30 pm	VSS Quiet Lounge	Lounge	Compass
7:30 am - 9:30 pm	VSS Social Lounge	Lounge	Royal Tern
7:45 - 8:45 am	Morning Coffee and 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	Spatial Vision: Neural mechanisms	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
8:15 - 9:45 am	Visual Memory: Imagery, memorability, long-term	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Tuesday Morning Posters Eye Movements: Social, individual differences, visual preferences Eye Movements: Natural or complex tasks Decision Making: Metacognition Object Recognition: Models Object Recognition: Visual preferences Perceptual Organization: Aesthetics Perceptual Organization: Individual differences, events and relations	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Tuesday Morning Posters Eye Movements: Cognition Face and Body Perception: Social cognition, behavioural Face and Body Perception: Social cognition, neural mechanisms Face and Body Perception: Features Face and Body Perception: Development, clinical Object Recognition: Features and parts 3D Processing: Space, coordinate frames, virtual environments Color, light and materials: Neural mechanisms, clinical Temporal Processing: Neural mechanisms, models	Poster Session	Pavilion
9:45 - 10:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Attention: Temporal, spatial	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
10:45 am - 12:15 pm	Scene Perception	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
12:15 - 1:15 pm	VSS Business Meeting	Business	Talk Room 2
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	Lunch (on your own) Lunch Available for Purchase in Garden Courtyard 11:30 - 2:30	Break	Garden Courtyard
1:15 - 3:15 pm	phiVis: Philosophy of Vision Science Workshop	Satellite	Banyan/Citrus
2:45 - 4:45 pm	Plasticity and Learning	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
2:45 - 4:45 pm	Motion: Models, Neural mechanisms	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
2:45 - 6:45 pm	Tuesday Afternoon Posters Spatial Vision: Models Spatial Vision: Neural mechanisms Attention: Visual search Attention: Capture Undergraduate Just-In-Time 2	Poster Session	Banyan Breezeway
2:45 - 6:45 pm	Tuesday Afternoon Posters Visual Memory: Working memory and attention Visual Memory: Working memory and visual functions Visual Memory: Neural mechanism of working memory Decision Making: Perception, memory Scene Perception: Categorization, memory, clinical, intuitive physics, models Scene Perception: Spatiotemporal factors Scene Perception: Natural images, virtual environments Scene Perception: Neural mechanisms	Poster Session	Pavilion
4:45 - 5:30 pm	Afternoon Coffee and Snack	Break	Garden Courtyard & Pavilion
5:30 - 7:15 pm	Eye Movements: Perceptual advantages and disadvantages	Talk Session	Talk Room 1
5:30 - 7:15 pm	Face and Body Perception: Development, clinical, individual differences, experience	Talk Session	Talk Room 2
8:30 - 10:00 pm	Visibility Social	Social	Banyan/Citrus
10:00 pm - 2:00 am	Club Vision	Social	Talk Room 1
10:00 pm - 2:00 am	Chill Vision	Social	Sabal/Sawgrass

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