1st Call for Abstracts

The 32nd European Conference on Visual Perception, ECVP 2009, will take place from Monday August 24th through to Friday August 28th 2009 in Regensburg Germany.

ECVP welcomes contributions on all topics of visual and perceptual sciences, including:

Visual Psychophysics
Visual Cognition
Visual Physiology & Anatomy
Computational Vision
Color Vision
Artificial Vision
Brain Imaging
Eye movements
Multisensory integration
Perceptual Robotics
Vision and Haptics

Abstract (max length 200 words) will be published in a special issue of Perception. In order to submit an abstract, participants should complete the Conference Registration from the website and proceed to payment, via the secure Credit Card system(accepting Visa and Mastercard) provided and guaranteed by the official bank of the conference (HypoVereinsbank/UniCredit).
The deadline for submitting an abstract is April 15, 2009. No further extension will be granted.

Free communications will be either 15 minute (12 min. talk, 3 min discussion) oral presentations in parallel sessions, or posters. Several symposia with invited speakers have also been organized, as well as various satellite events before, during and possibly after the ECVP conference.

Travel fellowships will be granted competitively to a limited number of students from EU member states, North America and Asia, and from researchers from Africa, South America and some parts of Asia.

The conference will begin with on Monday evening, August 24th with the Perception lecture, the traditional plenary lecture. This year's Perception lecture will be delivered by Professor Wolf Singer from the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt. The reception will take place in the historical city center of Regensburg in the Thon Dittmer Palace. The Rank lecture will be given by Professor Patrick Cavanagh from Harvard University on Wednesday evening and the Siemens Imaging lecture will be given by Professor Nikos Logothetis from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. All three keynote lectures will be held in the Audi-Max of the University of Regensburg (the main venue). There will be city buses to take you from the University to the Reception Venue.

The slide-presentation and poster sessions will be held at the lecture halls of the University of Regensburg. Every afternoon there will be a symposium devoted to current research on a topic of interest.

The area features many tourist attractions, from medieval architecture to riverside walks, from beer gardens and traditional Bavarian tourism. Half- and full-day trips will be available from the desk of ECVP fringe for accompanying persons.

We hope you will join us in the 32nd ECVP to be held in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Regensburg. For additional information, visit our website (www.ecvp2009.org) or send us an email: info@ecvp2009.org.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Bis bald in Regensburg!
Mark Greenlee
Chair of ECVP2009 Regensburg