Saturday/Sunday, August 22/23

 

Satellite Workshop
'3-Dillusions'

Saturday, 22 August, 19:00 – Sunday, 23 August, 21:00
The Barn, Leinroden, Abtsgmünd

Organisers: Bernd Lingelbach & Nicholas Wade
See details at http://www.2009.leinroden.de

 

 

Monday, August 22/24

 

Satellite Workshop
Models of vision and decision-making: from features to behaviour and perceptual robotics

Monday, 24 August, 9:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Organisers: Heiko Neumann & Massimo Bergamasco

Feature extraction, segmentation, and spatial orientation

9:00   Neural mechanisms of motion integration and segregation: perception and modeling
            (H Neumann)

9:30   Mechanisms and dynamics of visual attention in primates
            (S Treue)

10:00  Active segmentation
            (Y Aloimonos)

10:30  Neural model of visually-guided navigation in a cluttered world
            (E Mingolla)

Multi-modality, representations, and action guiding

11:30  Multisensory integration for perception and action in virtual environments
            (H H Bülthoff)

12:00  Cortical mechanisms for generating multi-sensory spatial representations in guiding action
            (F Bremmer)

12:30  Vision to action: Neurophysiology and modelling of the visual properties of mirror neurons
            (M A Giese)

Active perception, task-driven perception, and perceptual robotics

14:00  From 3-D sensing to recognition to shape understanding: A viewpoint from robotics
            (U Hillenbrand)

14:30  Perception of space and time during saccades
            (M C Morrone)

15:00  A behavioural model for vision-based navigation of robots
            (A Frisoli)

15:30  Modeling the role of task in the control of gaze
            (D Ballard)

16:00  Using neurally inspired robots to study brain function: Principles and mechanisms
            (J L Krichmar)

 

Satellite Symposium
Memorial symposium for Ruxandra Sireteanu

Monday, 24 August, 15:00 – 17:20
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Organisers: Ute Leonards, Maria Fronius, & Hans Strasburger
Chair: Wolf Singer

15:00  Ruxandra Sireteanu
            (W Singer)

15:20  Amblyopia – a model of plasticity of the visual system. A retrospective and a look at present research
            (M Fronius)

15:40  Spatial and temporal distortions in human amblyopes
            (A Thiel)

15:50  Experience dependent cortical development of the visual system
            (L Muckli)

16:10  On fMRI interocular transfer
            (A Jurcoane, B Choubey, D Mitsieva, L Muckli, R Sireteanu)

16:20  Gravel or the Dalmatian’s tail? – Four decades in search of lost Gestalt
            (I Rentschler, M Jüttner)

16:40  Visual development in infancy: work in the spirit of Ruxandra Sireteanu
            (J Atkinson, O Braddick)

17:00  Enrich the environment to empower the brain
            (L Maffei, N Berardi)

 

ECVP Opening

Monday, 24 August, 17:30 – 18:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Moderator: Mark W Greenlee (Local Committee, University of Regensburg)
Speaker: Stephan Bierling (Vice-rector, University of Regensburg)
Speaker: Joachim Wolbergs (Deputy Mayor, City of Regensburg)
Speaker: Katja Hessel (State Secretary, Bavarian Ministry for Economy)

 

The Perception Lecture
Distributed processing and temporal codes in cortical networks

Monday, 24 August, 18:00 – 19:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Speaker: Wolf Singer
Moderator: Lothar Spillmann

 

ECVP Opening Reception

Monday, 24 August, 19:30
Thon-Dittmer-Palais, Old Town of Regensburg

 

 

Tuesday, August 25

 

Talk Session A
Attention and visual search

Tuesday, 25 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Stefano Baldassi & Sophia A Crespi

9:00   Spatial attention modulates the spatiotopicity of human MT complex
            (S A Crespi, L Biagi, D C Burr, G d'Avossa, M Tosetti, M C Morrone)

9:15   Behavioral studies support the normalization model of attention
            (K Herrmann, L Montaser Kouhsari, M Carrasco, D J Heeger)

9:30   Reward modulates the signal-to-noise ratio of orientation-tuned channels
            (S Baldassi, C Simoncini)

9:45   Optimal adaptation of visual search strategies to utility: Empirical evidence and computational model
            (Y-C Tseng, A Howes)

10:00  Modulation of attentional capture by display probabilities in visual search
            (B Sayim, A Grubert, J Krummenacher, M H Herzog)

10:15  Critical differences in flicker rate capture attention
            (J R Cass, E Van der Burg, D Alais)

10:30  Masking effects in visual feature binding
            (S Jaswal, R H Logie)

10:45  Attention helps generalize learning across locations
            (M Carrasco, A Giordano)

 

Talk Session B
Motion mechanisms, adaptation, and illusions

Tuesday, 25 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Wim A van de Grind & Johannes M Zanker

9:00   Biphasic temporal response of low-level motion detectors in human vision revealed by a direction discrimination task
            (K L Challinor, G Mather)

9:15   Surround motion affects speed encoding at an early stage of processing
            (D H Baker, E W Graf)

9:30   The role of striate cortex (V1) in conscious and unconscious motion perception
            (M Koivisto, T Mäntylä, J Silvanto)

9:45   Orientation-tuned masking and adaptation caused by motion streaks
            (D Apthorp, J R Cass, D Alais)

10:00  Modelling contrast sensitivity of the motion aftereffect
            (W A van de Grind)

10:15  Mixing slow and fast speeds fools the colour-motion asynchrony illusion
            (J López-Moliner, D Linares)

10:30  Optic flow perceived from illusory disk motion
            (J M Zanker)

10:45  Buildings drawn in perspective on large billboards appear to rotate: An explanation
            (T V Papathomas, Z Kourtzi, A E Welchman)

 

Symposium
Perceptual learning

Tuesday, 25 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Organiser: Takeo Watanabe

14:00  Reinforcement, associative, and perceptual learning in a visual decision task
            (J Gold)

14:30  Functions and mechanisms of perceptual learning
            (Z-L Lu)

15:00  Explaining training-induced performance increments and decrements within a unified framework of perceptual learning
            (D Sagi, N Censor)

15:30  Perceptual learning and brain activation
            (Y Sasaki)

16:00  Perceptual learning as a result of an exposed feature being internally enhanced
            (T Watanabe)

 

Talk Session C
Brightness, lightness, and colour

Tuesday, 25 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Karl R Gegenfurtner & Alan L Gilchrist

14:00  Probe disks reveal lightness computation in complex images
            (A L Gilchrist, A Radonjic)

14:15  The role of mid-range luminance context in lightness induction
            (M E Rudd)

14:30  Stretching of the relief makes Lambertian surfaces appear glossy
            (M W A Wijntjes, S C Pont)

14:45  Contrast suppression regulates perceived transparency
            (T L Peromaa)

15:00  Focal colours attract visual attention
            (T Hansen, S Weis, K R Gegenfurtner)

15:15  Evolution of highly chromatic signals
            (L Wilkins)

15:30  Fusion of sequential colour stimuli in response priming?
            (T Schmidt, L Vorobyova)

15:45  Categorical reaction times for equally discriminable colours
            (C Witzel, T Hansen, K R Gegenfurtner)

16:00  Enhanced colour discrimination at a category boundary
            (M V Danilova, J D Mollon)

16:15  The role of chromatic texture in object classification: pocked yellow equals lemon yellow
            (A Hurlbert, I Pietta, Y Ling)

 

Rank Lecture
The position sense

Tuesday, 25 August, 18:00 – 19:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Speaker: Patrick Cavanagh
Moderator: Takeo Watanabe

 

Poster Session

Tuesday, 25 August 11:30 – 13:00 (odd numbers) & 16:30 – 18:00 (even numbers)
Foyer & Kunsthalle of Central Lecture Building, University of Regensburg

Attention

1      Target-mask spatial separation influences the extent of object substitution masking
            (D Guest, A Gellatly, M Pilling)

2      The identity of a target is rapidly available in the attentional blink
            (F Hilkenmeier, I Scharlau)

3      Object substitution masking with a single peripheral dot: evidence of object updating or attentional capture?
            (M Pilling, A Gellatly)

4      Serial, parallel, and coactive processing of double stimuli presented with onset asynchrony
            (M Gondan, V Fischer)

5      The effect of spatial attention on pupil dynamics
            (L Daniels, H S Hock, D Nichols, A Huisman)

6      An unmasked attentional blink for bandpass filtered letters
            (B J Wolfgang, Q Bucklach, W Heywood, P L Smith)

7      Strategic influences on visual prior entry
            (K Weiß, I Scharlau)

8      Attention and conscious decisions
            (A Stemme, G Deco)

9      How do we look at the world? Perceptual learning creates two kinds of observers
            (T Albrecht, U Mattler)

10     How does sound improve vision? A classification image study
            (D Pascucci, N Megna, M Panichi, S Baldassi)

11     Difficulty of change detection influences attentional allocation between foreground and background
            (T Kabata, E Matsumoto)

12     Attention bias to emotional face expression: level of subjective anxiety and sympathetic nervous activity affects on a threat superiority effect
            (E Matsumoto)

13     Attention increases input gain when processing motion coherence
            (M Furlan, J V Schwarzbach)

14     Making waves in the stream of consciousness: Eliciting predictable oscillations in visual awareness with visual entrainment at 12 Hz
            (K E Mathewson, M Fabiani, G Gratton, D M Beck, A Lleras)

15     Accumulation of salience: Modeling the effects of target distractor similarity in visual search
            (M Zehetleitner, H J Müller, J M Wolfe)

16     Optimal visual search: combining what you expect with what you see
            (B T Vincent)

17     Positive affect in the additional singletons paradigm: Initial global dimensional attention mode and intact top-down control
            (C Kuhbandner, R Pekrun, H J Müller, M Zehetleitner)

18     The role of the gaze direction of a crowd on the orientation of attention
            (J E McHugh, R McDonnell, C O'Sullivan, F N Newell)

19     Keep it big for the small ones!: The development of attentional resolution
            (K Wolf, T Pfeiffer)

20     Irrelevant words trigger an attentional blink
            (T Stein, J Zwickel, M Kitzmantel, J Ritter, W X Schneider)

21     Orienting to gaze and arrow cues: independent or partially overlapping processes?
            (F Mancini, P Ricciardelli, G Vallar, E Bricolo)

22     Object-based attention: Evidence for sensory enhancement
            (Z Chen, K Cave, O Shevchouk)

23     Attentional effects on drift eye movements before and after microsaccades
            (T Kohama, H Yoshida, N Toda)

24     The processing of visual salience in parietal patients
            (I C Dombrowe, M Donk, H Wright, C N L Olivers, G W Humphreys)

25     The effect of spatial distortion distributions on human viewing behaviour when judging image quality
            (U Engelke, A Maeder, H-J Zepernick)

26     Eye movement analysis of tilt illusions
            (S Karanam, B Indurkhya)

27     Comparing eye movements for perception and communication: Changes in visual fixation durations and saccadic amplitudes
            (R Müller, S Pannasch, B M Velichkovsky)

28     Using eye tracking to assess the task effect on viewing behaviour
            (H Alers, H Liu, L Bos, I Heynderickx)

29     The effect of terrain on eye movements while walking in the real world
            (B M 't Hart, W Einhäuser)

30     Does the shift of another person's gaze direction enhance the reflective attentional shift?
            (M Takahashi, H Yoshida, H Yamada)

Perceptual organization

31     Searching for fragmented objects: An ideal observer analysis of human eye movements
            (L Holm, P Schrater, A Yuille, S Engel)

32     The role of orientation and position in shape perception
            (G Loffler, M Day)

33     Effect of orientation on depth-order and lightness perception in perceptual transparency
            (Y Kiyohisa, H Ito, S Sunaga)

34     Texture and contour integration in normal ageing and Alzheimer disease: a VEP study
            (F Pei, G Gattulli, A Mangiabene, S Baldassi)

35     Integration of contour features into a global shape: A classification image study
            (I Kurki, J Saarinen, A Hyvärinen)

36     Probing the spatial extent and selectivity of mechanisms that pool orientation signals across space
            (B S Webb, N W Roach, P V McGraw)

37     Corner enhancement effect: comparing convex and concave corners
            (M Bertamini, M Mohamed Helmy, P A Skarratt, G G Cole)

38     Detection, categorization, and identification are separable component processes of object recognition
            (S de la Rosa, R Choudhery, A Chatziastros)

39     Visuo-tactile contributions to the perception of naturalness: an fMRI study
            (T Whitaker, C Simões-Franklin, F N Newell)

40     One possible model for illusory motion perception in still figure
            (M Idesawa)

41     Temporal priming of figural information and relations
            (F Bauer, M Conci, H J Müller)

42     The earliest neural correlate of visual awareness: Motion precedes colour
            (S Veser, E Schröger, U Roeber)

3-D perception

43     Monocular viewing prolongs interval of perceptual reversal
            (K Ukai, S Tanahashi, K Segawa, M Zheng, J Kuze)

44     How embedding prior constraints improves coding and decoding strategies in a neural distributed architecture for depth perception
            (S P Sabatini, M Chessa, F Solari)

45     Cast shadows in perspective
            (S C Pont, M W A Wijntjes, S Oomes, A van Doorn, H de Ridder, J J Koenderink)

46     Shape from smear
            (D N Holtmann-Rice, R W Fleming)

47     Dynamic interactions between the dorsal and the ventral visual subsystems during the perception of 3-D structure from 2-D motion
            (S Iwaki, J W Belliveau)

48     Effects of surface material on perceived 3-D shape: comparing velvet and matte reflectances
            (K Doerschner, M W A Wijntjes, G Kucukoglu, S C Pont)

49     Depth perception in depth-fused 3-D (DFD) display when both eyes have different visual acuity
            (Y Kobayashi, N Hashimoto, S Wakita, H Yamamoto, S Suyama)

50     Comparing audiovisual distance perception in various 'real' and 'virtual' environments
            (J S Chan, D Lisiecka, C Ennis, C O'Sullivan, F N Newell)

51     Wideangle or telefoto pictures and perceived shape
            (A J van Doorn, J J Koenderink, S F te Pas, H de Ridder)

52     The influence of a visible reference on judging egocentric distance
            (R Sousa, E Brenner, J B J Smeets)

53     Misestimation of lightness under changes in light source elevation
            (Y D Dimitrova, P McOwan, A Johnston)

54     Perceived size and distance are not internally consistent
            (E Svarverud, S J Gilson, A Glennerster)

55     The Mona Lisa effect: Is it confined to the horizontal plane?
            (E Boyarskaya, H Hecht)

56     The changes in perception of visual illusions during long-term isolation
            (R Sikl, M Simecek, J Lukavsky)

57     Focus position's effect in depth perception
            (H Nate)

58     A virtual reality tool for disparity statistics in the peripersonal space
            (M Chessa, S P Sabatini, F Solari)

59     Visual search in 2-D and 2½-D surfaces: differential eye movement patterns and effects of writing direction
            (M Wagner, W H Ehrenstein, T V Papathomas)

60     Inclination bias in near 3-D visual space
            (K M Rapp, H Heuer)

61     Visual rather than proprioceptive information contribute more to shape-from-shading when the light-source was actively moved
            (T Sato, K Hosokawa)

Hand movements

62     The role of body and tool-based information in joint action coordination
            (S Streuber, S de la Rosa)

63     Trajectory formation affects grasping kinematics
            (C Hesse, H Deubel)

64     Feature-based attention modulates priming effects in a primed-pointing paradigm
            (F Schmidt, T Schmidt)

65     Learning to intercept targets driven by force fields: effects of modulus and orientation variability
            (A Sciutti, F Nori, G Metta, T Pozzo, G Sandini)

66     Spontaneous blinks are entrained by finger tapping
            (M Sharikadze, D-K Cong, G Staude, H Deubel, W Wolf)

67     Relative contributions of non-visual information to the position estimates of a moving hand
            (H Tanaka, C Worringham, G K Kerr, M Takeichi)

Colour vision

68     Modelling of RGB colour contribution to visual acuity in conditions of fog evoked decrease of luminance and contrast
            (D Lauva, M Ozolinsh, S Fomins)

69     Mesopic luminance defined by minimum motion
            (S Raphael, D I A MacLeod)

70     Quantification and formulation of age-related changes in colour appearance
            (K Okajima, M Oda)

71     Influences of surround hue on color appearance
            (T Wachtler, S Klauke)

72     Colour categories boundaries are better defined in contextual conditions
            (R Benavente, C Parraga, M Vanrell)

73     Processing bimodal line stimuli: Contributions of colour and orientation
            (G V Paramei, D L Bimler, C A Izmailov)

74     The effect of contrast polarity, contrast ratio and colors on neon
            (H N Cha, W H Jung)

75     Selectivity of local field potentials to natural images in primate V4 and prefrontal cortex
            (S Liebe, N Logothetis, G Rainer)

76     Multispectral analysis of the colour deficiency tests and modelling of cones influence on test perception
            (M Ozolinsh, S Fomins)

77     The influence of color on visual performance
            (B M O´Donell, E M Colombo, J F Barraza)

78     Spacing constraints in the watercolour effect
            (F Devinck, L Spillmann)

79     Subtractive Land Effect
            (K Brecher)

80     Colour discrimination in coral reef fish
            (U E Siebeck, G Wallis, M Vorobyev)

81     Colorimetry is coarse-grained spectroscopy
            (J J Koenderink)

82     Shaping the universality hypothesis to the Italian language
            (G Paggetti, G Bartoli, G Menegaz)

83     Comparison of models for chromatic discrimination
            (M Giesel, T Hansen, K R Gegenfurtner)

Visual search

84     Decomposition of dimension-specific intertrial effects: separate weighting systems modulate visual selection and identification processes
            (D Rangelov, H J Müller, M Zehetleitner)

85     Brave upside-down world: verbal judgements versus matching task in distance perception
            (O M Tošković)

86     Low-level visual deficits in normal ageing dissociation of magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways in a luminance forced choice pedestal discrimination
            (Q Lenoble, H Amiéva, S Delord)

87     The time course of similarity effects in visual search
            (D Guest, K Lamberts)

88     Visual search for targets on natural textured backgrounds
            (P R Green, A Willis, C D Egan)

89     Object segregation and local gist vision using low-level geometry
            (J A Martins, J Rodrigues, H du Buf)

90     Top-down modulations of visually guided pointing movements
            (M Hegenloh, M Zehetleitner, H J Müller)

91     Contextual memory and association across successive contextual layouts
            (B Esmaeili, M Majed)

92     Two mechanisms for detecting spatial contours defined by motion
            (A Pavan, C Casco, G Mather, G Campana)

93     Spiders capture attention especially when you are afraid of them
            (C Devue, A Belopolsky, J Theeuwes)

94     Task efficiency mediates the effects of movement in visual search
            (N E Scott-Samuel, U Leonards)

95     Suboptimal selection of initial saccade in a visual search task
            (C Morvan, L T Maloney)

96     Spot the ball: The extent of the functional visual field when searching natural scenes
            (M S Mould, K Amano, D H Foster, J P Oakley)

97     Compensatory saccadic training selectively improves natural exploratory activities in hemianopia
            (A N Sokolov, T Roth, A Messias, P Roth, M Weller, S Trauzettel-Klosinski)

98     Assessing the interaction of bottom-up and top-down factors on the eye-movements in visual search for a human target
            (P Jungkunz, C J Darken)

99     Are there differences in search strategies and eye movement behaviour in 2-D vs 3-D environments?
            (M C Cölln, K Kusch, J R Helmert, S Pannasch)

100    The effect of different artificial central scotomata on eye-movement patterns
            (R Zhou, M W von Grünau, A Johnson, R Gurnsey)

101    Attention operates on non-retinotopic feature maps in visual search
            (M H Herzog, M Boi, H Ogmen, J Krummenacher)

Computer, machine, and robotic vision

102    Eye movements on blended natural videos
            (L Pomarjanschi, M Dorr, E Vig, E Barth)

103    A gaze-contingent display for gaze guidance
            (M Dorr, E Barth)

104    A machine learning framework for gaze guidance
            (E Vig, M Dorr, K R Gegenfurtner, E Barth)

105    A computational model of visual search saliency for road signs diagnostic
            (L Simon, J-P Tarel, R Brémond, H Panjo)

106    Drosophila melanogaster exhibit perceptual generalization for the shapes of a circle and a cross
            (J-C Chen, S H-L Chien, W Lin)

107    Attention and action selection in a robot controlled by principles of vertebrate neuromodulation
            (J L Krichmar)

108    Measurement of facial scarring in children with cleft lip/cleft lip and palate: a preliminary study
            (D R Simmons, A Bell, A Bowman, D Brown, R Lo, K Millar, J-P Siebert, M Xiao, A Ayoub)

109    Attentive mobile robot visual maps via bubble memory
            (S Cayci, O Erkent, H I Bozma)

Computational modelling

110    Analysis of optical flow at object occlusions
            (S Ringbauer, F Raudies, H Neumann)

111    A hierarchical computational model of statistical learning of two-dimensional visual shapes
            (A Leonardis, S Fidler)

112    An accommodation-dependent human eye model with the constant volume and refractive index
            (E K Kang, C K Hwangbo, S C Park)

113    Principal component analysis of fourier transforms discriminates visual art from other image categories
            (M Koch, J Denzler, C Redies)

114    Do dynamic models of accommodation / vergence relationship apply for hyperstereoscopic stimuli?
            (P Neveu, A-E Priot, P Fuchs, C Roumes)

115    Central performance drop in saccadic latencies
            (M Wischnewski, H Koesling, L Kehrer, H Ritter)

116    Modeling neurophysiological and psychophysical effects of attention via dynamic modulation of receptive fields
            (O Baruch, Y Yeshurun)

117    How do object reference frames and motion vector decompositions emerge from multiple moving targets?
            (J Leveille, S Grossberg, M Versace)

118    Physiologically plausible model of a novelty filter that simulates orientation-contingent colour after-effects
            (P Maximov)

119    Invariant recognition of goal-directed hand actions: a physiologically plausible neural model
            (F Fleischer, A Casile, M A Giese)

120    White effect without physical edges
            (M Hudák, J Geier)

121    Learning of motion and form patterns from head and body movements for the analysis of human visual communication
            (U Weidenbacher, H Neumann)

Decision making and reward

122    Probabilistic extrapolation of complex curves
            (T G Tanner)

123    Explicit estimation of visual uncertainty: a new motion extrapolation paradigm
            (P A Warren, E W Graf, L T Maloney, R A Champion)

124    Motivational valence improves visual detection performance
            (M Rothkirch, A Gómez-Carrillo de Castro, P Sterzer)

125    Human intrinsic visuomotor rewards in obstacle avoidance
            (C A Rothkopf, D H Ballard)

Texture segmentation

126    Texture segmentation: Sampling units on the saliency map increasing with eccentricity?
            (U Schade, C Meinecke)

127    Texture segmentation: does M-scaling explain the N2p eccentricity effect?
            (S Schaffer, C Meinecke)

128    Bistable depth ordering in motion transparency
            (S Wardle, D Alais, J Cass)

129    Seeing texture edges without segmentation, by contextual modulations within the texture region
            (V Robol, C Casco)

130    Segmentation of instant isoluminant chromatic textures
            (S Fomins, L Zarina)

Grouping

131    Motion-induced blindness and perceptual grouping: the role of grouping cues reconsidered
            (D V Devyatko)

132    The estimation of quantitative ranges of invariance in visual perception
            (V N Chikhman, Y E Shelepin, O A Vakhrameeva, S V Pronin, N Foreman, P Passmore)

133    How global and local visual processings are affected by the priming of affective concepts
            (R Bianchi, E Laurent)

134    Visual search of the second-order targets with uncertainty
            (D V Yavna, V V Babenko, A A Soloviev)

 

 

Wednesday, August 26

 

Talk Session A
Motion mechanisms and optic flow

Wednesday, 26 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Andrew T Smith & John Wattam-Bell

9:00   Visual perception of social interaction: gender effects on oscillatory gamma MEG response
            (M A Pavlova, M Guerreschi, W Lutzenberger, I Krägeloh-Mann)

9:15   Shape-driven motion perception: Human performance is optimally efficient
            (Q Zaidi, E Cohen, A Jain)

9:30   Interactions between global form and motion in high-density VEPs
            (J Wattam-Bell, S Merwin, M Oxley, V Palzes, D Birtles)

9:45   The vector sum of motion strengths describes the perceived motion direction of first-order plaids
            (G Sperling, D T Liu)

10:00  Human visual area V6 is selectively responsive to egomotion-compatible optic flow
            (A T Smith, V Cardin)

10:15  Support for a spatiotemporal association field account of multiple object tracking
            (T S Horowitz, M A Cohen)

10:30  Unifying mechanisms of motion integration and segregation in area MT: a neural model
            (C Beck, H Neumann)

10:45  Contrast reveals all: A new model of image-velocity estimation using MT neurons
            (J A Perrone, R J Krauzlis)

 

Talk Session B
3-D perception and spatial vision

Wednesday, 26 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Barbara J Gillam & Brian J Rogers

9:00   Veridical binocular perception of 3-D shape
            (Z Pizlo, Y Li, T Sawada, R M Steinman)

9:15   Global vertical disparity influences stereo correspondence
            (G P Phillipson, J C A Read)

9:30   Alternation frequency thresholds for stereopsis reveal different types of stereoscopic difficulties
            (S I Rychkova, J Ninio)

9:45   Depth information does not speed up a texture segmentation task unless the required reaction time is longer than about 1 second: implications for the relative roles of striate and extra-striate cortices in input driven attentional guidance
            (L Zhaoping, N Guyader, A Lewis)

10:00  Stereoscopic depth magnitudes at greater distances in an old steam railway tunnel
            (B Gillam, S Palmisano, D Govan, R Allison, J Harris)

10:15  Binocular disparities, motion parallax and geometric perspective in Patrick Hughes' 'Reverspectives'
            (B J Rogers, A Gyani)

10:30  Inferred motion perception of light sources in three-dimensional scenes is color-blind
            (H E Gerhard, L T Maloney)

10:45  The image-based acuity model: A general model for image recognition
            (A B Watson, A J Ahumada Jr)

 

Symposium
Population encoding for high-dimensional visual representations

Wednesday, 26 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Organiser: Jim Haxby

14:00  Decoding conscious and unconscious visual representations from patterns of human brain activity
            (J-D Haynes)

14:30  Visual image reconstruction from human brain activity: A modular decoding approach
            (Y Kamitani)

15:00  Representation of object category structure by the neuronal population of inferior temporal cortex
            (R Kiani)

15:30  Fast and robust decoding of visual information from intracranial field potentials in the human visual cortex
            (G Kreiman)

16:00  Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey, and computational models with representational similarity analysis
            (N Kriegeskorte)

 

Talk Session C
Scene perception

Wednesday, 26 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Tom Troscianko & Frans W Cornelissen

14:00  The perception of sunsets
            (T Troscianko, J Fennell, C Benton, R Baddeley)

14:15  Limits on the non-selective processing of scenes
            (K K Evans, J M Wolfe)

14:30  Distance and alignment effects in survey knowledge of a highly familiar city
            (J Frankenstein, B J Mohler, H H Bülthoff, T Meilinger)

14:45  Less is more: smaller images appear richer in detail
            (S P Heinrich, M Bach)

15:00  Change in appearance of textures with randomisation of Fourier phase
            (K Emrith, P R Green, M J Chantler)

15:15  Texture representations in human scene-responsive cortex
            (F W Cornelissen, K V Haak, R J Renken)

15:30  Context shapes neural activity even in non-stimulated early visual areas
            (F W Smith, L Muckli)

15:45  Vision senses number directly
            (D C Burr, J Ross)

16:00  Perceptual rivalry in tri-stable stimuli
            (M Naber, G Gruenhage, W Einhäuser)

16:15  Visual perception of peripersonal space depends on motor representation: Evidence from psychophysical and brain imaging studies
            (Y Coello, A Bartolo, J Bourgeois)

 

ECVP Business Meeting

Wednesday, 26 August, 18:00 – 19:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Moderator: Mark W Greenlee

 

Vielberth Lecture
The extraction of 3-D shape: a story of gradients, neurons, and images

Wednesday, 26 August, 20:30 – 21:30
Thon-Dittmer-Palais, Old Town of Regensburg

Speaker: Guy A Orban

 

Poster Session

Wednesday, 26 August, 11:30 – 13:00 (odd numbers) & 16:30 – 18:00 (even numbers)
Foyer & Kunsthalle of Central Lecture Building, University of Regensburg

Perception and action

1      The influence of the current situation on the recall of survey knowledge: the case of location and body orientation
            (T Meilinger, J Frankenstein, S Holzer, J-P Brescani)

2      Shape, lightness, and affordances
            (D Zavagno, N Stucchi, S Cosimo, L Riggio)

3      The effect of spatial distractors on visuo-motor responses depends on their detection: evidence for no dissociation between perception and action
            (A Deplancke, L Madelain, A Chauvin, P Cardoso Leite, A Gorea, Y Coello)

4      Saccadic latency and predictability of stimulus location influence the effect of the Müller-Lyer illusion on saccades
            (D D J de Grave, N Bruno)

5      Vertical and horizontal eye and head movements during locomotion and simultaneous stimulus pursuit
            (M von Grünau, R Sadi, S Manescu, R Zhou)

6      Sensorimotor adaptation to a biased feedback modifies the visual perception of peripersonal space
            (J Bourgeois, A Bartolo, Y Coello)

7      Prior observation or production of a motor action improves the perception of biological motion: Evidence for a gender effect
            (C Bidet-Ildei, A Chauvin, Y Coello)

8      Dual egocenter hypothesis on angular errors in manual pointing
            (K Shimono, A Higashiyama)

9      Observer's control of the moving stimulus increases the flash-lag effect
            (L Scocchia, R Actis-Grosso, C de Sperati, N Stucchi, G Baud-Bovy)

10     Stimulus compliance influences the force of the exploratory movement
            (L R Kaim, K Drewing)

Spatial vision

11     The role of integrated head and body orientation on the allocation of spatial attention
            (I Pomianowska, J Bonroy, F Germeys, F N Newell)

12     Senescent changes in photopic spatial summation in the peripheral retina
            (M Malania, J S Werner)

13     Visual acuity in x, y, and z
            (A Huckauf, J Müsseler, F Fährmann)

14     The effect of prior information about symmetry axis on symmetry detection
            (C-C Chen, C W Tyler)

15     Effects of orientation contrast and spatial frequency on metacontrast masking
            (M Bruchmann, C Pantev)

16     The FrACT goes hyperacute: Automatic measurement of vernier acuity
            (A C Lobecke, W M Harmening, M Bach)

17     The disparity and contrast sensitivity function compared: new insights from barn owl vision
            (W M Harmening, S Vossen, H Wagner, R F van der Willigen)

18     Texture segmentation: top-down influences on the detection of pop-out targets?
            (J Hülsmann, M Haas, C Meinecke)

19     Two contextual pairs of spots in the illusion of extent
            (A Gutauskas, A Bertulis, A Bulatov)

20     Modulation of the redundant signal effect by target eccentricity
            (E Olgiati, N Bolognini, S Savazzi, A Maravita)

21     Effects of ISI on tailgate blindness
            (A A Veenemans, P Cavanagh)

22     Perceptual prevalence of the fine structure of natural images revealed using visual chimeras
            (V Sierra-Vazquez, I Serrano-Pedraza)

23     Attraction of empty spaces: an experiment on attention process
            (F S Sabet, M Pourian, P Hatami)

24     Perceptual biases in judging the separation between objects
            (P V McGraw, D J Whitaker, N W Roach, D R Badcock)

25     Cross- vs within-channel masking in contrast discrimination
            (N S Yeotikar, C M Suttle, J Alexander, L J Asper, S Khuu)

26     Age-related differences in temporal processing
            (K Parkosadze, M Kunchulia, M Roinishvili, M H Herzog)

27     Pattern types influence creation of colour based Boolean maps
            (M Popović, S Zdravković)

28     Distinguishing lateral interaction from uncertainty reduction in collinear flanker facilitation of contrast discrimination
            (C-C Wu, C-C Chen)

29     Detection of second-order Gabor patterns of different lengths, widths and spatial frequencies
            (D L Mitov, T T Totev, K I Racheva, I M Hristov)

30     Global pooling in shape perception
            (G Schmidtmann, G Kennedy, H S Orbach, G Loffler)

31     Are observers robust when localizing simple 'uncontaminated' dot clusters?
            (M Z Juni, M Singh, L T Maloney)

32     Perception of numerosity at the time of saccades
            (P Binda, J Ross, D C Burr, M C Morrone)

33     An Oppel-Kundt figure with various patterns in the filled intervals
            (T Surkys, A Bertulis, A Bulatov, E Loginovic)

34     Camouflaged symmetry
            (K Landwehr)

Face perception

35     Investigating the automaticity of gaze cueing: A saccade curvature analysis
            (F Hermens, R Walker)

36     Perception and gaze behaviour: How do we look at faces?
            (A Porcheron, W Jenner, J Pripfl, M Pivec, M Binder, F Morizot)

37     Face recognition and eye movements: landing on the nose is not always necessary
            (G I Rozhkova, V V Ognivov)

38     The fMRI correlates of multi-face adaptation
            (K Nagy, M Zimmer, M W Greenlee, G Kovács)

39     Identity aftereffects for familiar faces depend on training and residual information in the test image
            (G MacKenzie, R Jenkins, A M Burton)

40     Sex categorization is influenced by facial information about identity
            (I Bülthoff)

41     Encoding of object and face categories by simultaneously recorded local field potentials and single cell activity in the inferior temporal cortex of the macaque monkey
            (R Sigala, J Veit, N K Logothetis, G Rainer)

42     Are we all prosopagnosics for other race faces?
            (H Wang, R Stollhoff, T Elze, J Jost, I Kennerknecht)

43     Early correlates of face visibility
            (M Zimmer, G Kovács)

44     Gender-partitioning of face space and family resemblance
            (H J Griffin, A Johnston)

45     Perceptual learning for multiple face orientations
            (C A Gomes, M Mendes, P Figueiredo)

46     Face selectivity is parameter-dependent in FFA
            (X Yue, D J Holt, B S Cassidy, K J Devaney, R B H Tootell)

47     Morphing morphing faces
            (R van Lier)

48     The interactive effects of facial distinctiveness and semantic one on facial encoding
            (N Takahashi, H Yamada)

49     Self-face recognition: now it looks like me, now it doesn't
            (F M Felisberti)

50     Familiar faces generate greater skin conductance responses than famous or unfamiliar faces
            (P F Heard, K Nash)

51     Abnormal facial outward appearances and their impact on facial attractiveness and attribution of personality
            (C C Carbon, R Jagsch)

52     The inhibitory effect of retrieval on face recognition
            (M Matsukawa, N Suto)

53     Recognition of briefly presented familiar and unfamiliar faces
            (B Meinhardt-Injac, M Persike, G Meinhardt)

54     Evaluating the possible effect of gender-related words on face gender decision task
            (A Zadbood, Z Basseda)

Perception of emotional expression

55     Sensual expressions on faces
            (A W Hendriks, R Engels, M Roek)

56     Emotional enhancement in retinotopic visual cortex
            (A Gómez-Carrillo de Castro, M Rothkirch, C Kaul, P Sterzer)

57     When angry faces are just cross(es)
            (C Coelho, S Cloete, G Wallis)

58     Going beyond universal expressions: investigating the visual perception of dynamic facial expressions
            (K Kaulard, C Wallraven, D W Cunningham, H H Bülthoff)

Biological motion

59     Perceiving biological motion from isoluminant displays: Motion is not required
            (M H E de Lussanet, M Lappe)

60     Temporal aspect of biomechanical constraint on visual recognition of human body motion
            (Y Inoue, S Tanioka, T Masuda, K Suzuki, T Murakoshi, M Honma, R Nakata, Y Osada, M Kitazaki)

61     Visual sensitivity to manipulations of human kinematics in point-light characters
            (W Stadler, J Parkinson, A Springer, W Prinz)

62     Temporal sampling in the perception of biological motion
            (B Aragão, C Mendonça, L Fontes, J A Santos)

63     On the mechanism of a movement direction in biological motion perception as inferred from the backscroll illusion
            (T Yoshizawa, T Kawahara, D Kato)

64     Interference between object processing and biological motion recognition
            (K Wittinghofer, M H E de Lussanet, M Lappe)

65     Effects of sexual dimorphism on perceived attractiveness from biological motion
            (I Arend, M A Giese, C Rother, M Khan, R Kramer, R Ward)

66     Specific influences of self-motion on the detection of biological motion
            (A Christensen, W Ilg, H-O Karnath, M A Giese)

67     The role of the parieto-premotor network in the processing of auditory-visual biological motion
            (S M Wuerger, G F Meyer, L M Parkes, P Lewis, A Crocker-Buque, R Rutschmann)

Motion

68     A model for motion perception depending on the minimal contrast
            (F Bayer, T Hansen, K R Gegenfurtner)

69     Directional uncertainty reveals differences between lateral and radial motion
            (C de la Malla, J López-Moliner)

70     Ternus group motion without an interstimulus interval
            (V Ekroll, L Kornmayer, T R Scherzer)

71     Collinear smooth eye pursuit disrupts detection of coherent motion in younger and older adults
            (E O'Connor, T C A Freeman, T H Margrain)

72     Smooth pursuit eye-movements suppress motion processing
            (P U Tse)

73     Transparency and corrugated motion: the effect of the spatial layout
            (J F Barraza, A Martin)

74     Visibility of an approaching object in periphery visual field
            (Q Wang, L Wang, M Idesawa)

75     Changing disparity and interocular velocity cues in time-to-contact judgements
            (C E Grafton, H T Nefs, J M Harris)

76     Predictive modulation of visual sensitivity ahead of moving objects
            (N W Roach, P V McGraw, A Johnston)

77     The use of multiple visual cues in cuttlefish camouflage
            (S Zylinski, A Shohet, D Osorio)

78     Are feature-selective and spatial attention independent?
            (S K Andersen, S A Hillyard, M M Müller)

79     Differential vulnerabilities of first- and second-order motion processing
            (J Billino, D I Braun, K R Gegenfurtner)

80     Separate motion-detecting mechanisms for first- and second-order patterns revealed by rapid forms of visual motion priming and motion aftereffect
            (M Manassi, A Pavan, G Campana, M Guerreschi, C Casco)

81     Target detection on the apparent motion trace
            (P Vetter, L Wilkie, A Alink, L Muckli)

82     Reversed motion perception during blinks
            (H Ito, T Seno)

83     Orientation and motion aftereffects are in retinotopic not world coordinates
            (T Knapen, M Rolfs, M Wexler, P Cavanagh)

84     Temporal characteristics of flicker-induced motion with stationary patterns
            (A L Beer, M W Greenlee)

85     The role of scene-based versus image-based information in motion correspondence
            (E Hein, C M Moore)

86     The tuning of simultaneous motion contrast and of motion adaptation
            (A S Li, J D Mollon, J M Bosten)

87     Transient stimuli reduces saccadic induced autokinesis
            (G Gavazzi, N Megna, E Romano, S Baldassi)

88     Visualizing one's involuntary eye movements: The 'Railroad Illusion'
            (L Spillmann, W H Ehrenstein, M Wagner)

89     Smooth retinal motion inhibits illusory motion of 'Rotating Snakes'
            (E Tomimatsu, H Ito, T Seno, S Sunaga)

90     Global motion processing in migraine-with-aura
            (D Wagner, V Manahilov, G E Gordon, G N Dutton)

91     Tracking multiple objects across abrupt viewpoint changes
            (G Jahn, M Huff, F Papenmeier, H S Meyerhoff)

92     Eye movements across viewpoint changes in multiple object tracking
            (F Papenmeier, M Huff, G Jahn)

93     What can we learn from failures in multiple object tracking?
            (E Vul, M C Frank, G A Alvarez, J B Tenenbaum)

94     External noise reveals crowding in detection
            (R Allard, P Cavanagh)

Lightness, brightness, and luminance

95     The effect of Vicario's size illusion on lightness
            (L Zanuttini, O Daneyko, D Zavagno)

96     Is the human primary visual cortex change blind?
            (R Weerda, M W Greenlee, C M Thiel)

97     The influence of texture segmentation on brightness computation on the articulated surrounds
            (M Sawayama, E Kimura)

98     A diffusion based computational model and computer simulation for the lightness illusions
            (J Geier)

99     The strength of Vasarely and SLC illusions depends on line straightness
            (G Y Menshikova, N V Polyakova)

100    Brightness perception in migraineurs and non-migraineurs and its possible link to photophobia
            (U Leonards, S M Haigh, R Rebuck, E Arden, N E Scott-Samuel)

101    Visual cues on food freshness perception: How luminance influences the freshness perception of vegetables
            (C A Arce Lopera, T Masuda, Y Wada, I Dan, A Kimura, K Okajima)

102    The effect of glare on visual performance and visual perception
            (E M Colombo, R C Aguirre, J F Barraza)

103    Motion and disparity information improves gloss constancy
            (G Wendt, F Faul, R Mausfeld)

104    Computing lightness within a plane: coplanar ratio principle vs anchoring theory
            (A Radonjic, A Gilchrist)

105    Measuring the meter: On the robustness of the Munsell Neutral Value Scale with different surrounds
            (O Daneyko, D Zavagno, T A Agostini)

106    Both illumination and the material of context objects influence perceived glossiness
            (S F te Pas, S C Pont)

107    The role of perceived illumination in the articulated simultaneous lightness contrast
            (A Soranzo, A Galmonte, T A Agostini)

108    From impossible to possible: a peculiar illusory transparency in the absence of stratification index only due to motion
            (D Bressanelli, S Gori)

Perceptual learning

109    Discrimination thresholds for time-to-collision
            (H Hecht, K Landwehr, R Baurès)

110    Contextual cueing of pop-out visual search
            (T Geyer, M Zehetleitner)

111    Psychophysical and electrophysiological evidence of distinct mechanisms for texture grouping and segmentation
            (C Casco, D Guzzon)

112    Temporal patterning of 'unlearnable' stimuli types does not always enable learning
            (K C Aberg, M H Herzog)

113    Brain plasticity associated with supervised and unsupervised learning
            (K Rosengarth, A Stemme, T Plank, G Deco, M W Greenlee)

114    Spatial frequency discrimination learning in adults with amblyopia
            (A T Astle, B S Webb, P V McGraw)

115    Reading/writing directions prime letter recognition
            (S Bouamama, N Stucchi, I Bouzaouache)

116    Re-learning face recognition: evidence for efficient strategies without holistic processing
            (L Dopjans, C Wallraven, H H Bülthoff)

117    Two separate mechanisms in motion speed learning revealed by task difficulty manipulation
            (Y-T Huang, T-H Chou, C-H Tseng)

118    Categorical-learning influences on visual discrimination abilities: The view from Enactive Psychology
            (É Laurent, A Izing, A Balverde)

Clinical vision

119    Brain responses of patients with cerebellar lesions in a memory-guided saccade task
            (M Raabe, M W Greenlee, D Bernhardt, U Bogdahn, R Lürding)

120    fMRI in patients with central visual field scotomas reveals higher activation in visual cortex associated with pseudo-fovea
            (T Plank, A B Renner, J Frolo, S Brandl-Rühle, H Helbig, M W Greenlee)

121    Schizophrenic and bipolar patients reveal identical backward masking deficits
            (M Roinishvili, E Chkonia, A Brand, M H Herzog)

122    Visuo-motor processing with abnormal V1-input
            (M B Hoffmann, M Kanoswki, S Meltendorf, W Behrens-Baumann, B Wolynski)

123    Compensatory brain activation in parietal patients during attentional tracking of independently moving objects
            (M W Greenlee, D Bernhardt, R Lürding, U Bogdahn, M Raabe)

124    Visual motion perception in patients with unilateral parietal brain damage: an fMRI study
            (D Bernhardt, M Raabe, R Lürding, U Bogdahn, M W Greenlee)

125    Recovery from cerebral blindness: learning to use already present residual capacity?
            (D P Bergsma, G van der Wildt)

126    Magnocellular-dorsal pathway and sub-lexical route in developmental dyslexia
            (A Facoetti, S Gori, A Bigoni, M Ruffino, M Molteni, P Cecchini)

127    Measuring subjective visual acuity in normal subjects with simulated visual disorders
            (A Dehnert, M Bach, S P Heinrich)

128    The effects of hyperbaric oxygen on the human retinal standing potential
            (A D Kurtev, M Harrison, J Peachey, J A Stewart)

129    Visual attention and phonological processing are both impaired in preschool children at risk of dyslexia
            (N Corradi, E Ciciriello, M Ruffino, A Trussardi, M Zorzi, A Facoetti)

130    Humans magno- and parvo-systems and selective abnormalities in their function
            (S V Muravyova, Y E Shelepin, R V Maximov)

131    Assessment of fusional reserves by means of interactive software: the effect of stimulus velocity
            (T A Oganyan, N N Vasiljeva, G I Rozhkova)

132    Vision restoration hot spots after brain damage are influenced by local topographic interactions
            (B A Sabel, I Müller, M Preuss, F Wolf, T Günther)

133    Adaptation of a Bayesian algorithm to visual acuity measurement in clinical practice
            (A E Belozerov)

 

 

Thursday, August 27

 

Talk Session A
Visual neuroscience

Thursday, 27 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Bernhard A Sabel & Christopher Tyler

9:00   Surround-suppression: can you keep a good idea down?
            (C R Aaen-Stockdale, B Thompson, P-C Huang, R F Hess)

9:15   Global contour processing in younger and older adults
            (A M McKendrick, A E Weymouth, J Battista)

9:30   Visual task performance and difficulties with daily activities in age-related macular degeneration
            (C S Barnes, W De l'Aune, R A Schuchard)

9:45   Decoding neural response dynamics in the human brain
            (C Tyler, L Likova, S Nicholas)

10:00  Dependence of a visual categorization task on acetylcholine
            (N C Aggelopoulos, S Liebe, N K Logothetis, G Rainer)

10:15  Cholinergic enhancement in healthy humans increases magnitude and specificity of perceptual learning
            (A Rokem, M A Silver)

10:30  Visual sensations in blind subjects elicited by electrical stimulation with a wireless intraocular retinal implant
            (S Klauke, M Goertz, U Thomas, F Bremmer, T Wachtler, EpiRet Group)

10:45  Non-invasive alternating current stimulation for the treatment of visual field defects in optic neuropathy: a single-centre trial
            (B A Sabel, A B Fedorov, N Dettler, L Ernst, A Borrmann, C Hermann, C Gall)

 

Talk Session B
Rivalry

Thursday, 27 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Tiziano A Agostini & Mark A Georgeson

9:00   Does colour undergo the same reversed contrast effect observed for lightness in Agostini and Galmonte's Necker cube display?
            (T A Agostini, O Da Pos, A C G Galmonte, A Mauri)

9:15   Predicting binocular-rivalry alternations electrophysiologically
            (R P O'Shea, J Kornmeier, U Roeber)

9:30   How many paths to awareness in binocular vision?
            (M A Georgeson, T S Meese)

9:45   Reading out the perceptual status during binocular rivalry using eye movement responses: application of the quadrature motion display
            (R Hayashi, M Tanifuji)

10:00  Adaptation-related changes during binocular rivalry phases: Dominance sensitivity declines, suppression sensitivity improves
            (D Alais, J Cass, R P O'Shea, R Blake)

10:15  Unbound rivalry: When the mind's eye just can't get it together
            (D H Arnold, H Erskine, W Roseboom, T S Wallis)

10:30  Non-retinotopic rivalry in an object-based reference frame
            (J J A van Boxtel, C Koch)

10:45  The perceptual dynamics of tristable stimuli
            (G Wallis, S Ringelhan)

 

Symposium I
Multisensory integration

Thursday, 27 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Organiser: Charles Spence

14:00  Multi-sensory perception of space and time, in adults and in children
            (D C Burr)

14:30  Auditory objects, visual objects, and audiovisual objects
            (M Kubovy)

15:00  Crossmodal interactions in visual perception and learning
            (L Shams)

15:30  Multisensory contributions to the perception of motion
            (S Soto-Faraco)

16:00  The multisensory perception of synchrony
            (C Spence, J Navarra, A Vatakis, J Hartcher-O’Brien, C Parise)

 

Symposium II
Neurophysiological basis of BOLD signals

Thursday, 27 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Organiser: Ralph D Freeman

14:00  Neurometabolic coupling in the cerebral cortex
            (R D Freeman)

14:30  Ongoing neural activity and hemodynamics
            (M Jones)

15:00  Pathway-specific variations in neurovascular and neurometabolic coupling in rodent brain
            (M Lauritzen)

15:30  Neurovascular coupling: insights from physiology, neuropharmacology and electrical microstimulation
            (N Logothetis)

16:00  Neurometabolic coupling varies with cortical lamina
            (A Viswanathan, R D Freeman)

 

Siemens Lecture
In vivo connectivity: MRI, paramagnetic tracers and electrical stimulation

Thursday, 27 August, 18:00 – 19:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Speaker: Nikos K Logothetis
Moderator: Ralph D Freeman

 

ECVP Banquet Dinner

Thursday, 27 August, 19:30
Fürstliches Brauhaus, Old Town of Regensburg

 

Poster Session

Thursday, 27 August, 11:30 – 13:00 (odd numbers) & 16:30 – 18:00 (even numbers)
Foyer & Kunsthalle of Central Lecture Building, University of Regensburg

Contours

1      Poggendorff Illusion with Kanizsa-like subjective contours
            (A Bastianelli, A Spoto, R Actis-Grosso, G Vidotto)

2      Contour awareness revealed in ERP error trials
            (G Volberg, A Wutz, M W Greenlee)

3      The role of vertical mirror-symmetry in visual shape detection
            (B Machilsen, J Wagemans)

4      Crowding and contour integration: the dark and bright side of feature integration
            (R van den Berg, J B T M Roerdink, F W Cornelissen)

5      Global shape processing: which parts form the whole?
            (S Hancock, J Bell, F A A Kingdom, J W Peirce)

6      Pictorial relief of objects represented by contour drawings
            (H de Ridder, A J van Doorn, L van der Meer)

7      Hysteresis in dynamic ambiguous figures
            (S Gori, E Giora, R Pedersini)

Higher cortical processing

8      Is the extrastriate body area involved in action perception?
            (A J Wiggett, I Kontaris, N N Oosterhof, P E Downing)

9      Functional MRI of olfactory perception in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease
            (C Mößnang, G Frank, J Klucken, U Bogdahn, R Rutschmann, M W Greenlee)

10     Optimal haemodynamic response to a standard visual checkerboard stimulus mapped over the posterior parietal and occipital cortices: a preliminary study
            (S Wijeakumar, M A McIntosh, U Shahani, A Nesbitt, D L McCulloch, V Manahilov)

11     Anisometropia and binocular evoked potential in visual cortex
            (G Krumina, K Caune)

12     Different involvement of face sensitive brain regions in famous face identification
            (G Frank, K Hennig-Fast, M W Greenlee)

13     The use of phase-encoding techniques in object space: Investigating the organization of the cortical object vision pathway
            (E Goesaert, H P Op de Beeck)

14     Retinotopic mapping of the human occipito-parietal cortex at a magnetic field strength 7 Tesla
            (B Wolynski, A Wollrab, R Grzeschik, O Speck, J Stadler, M B Hoffmann)

15     Predicting the scalp potential topography in the multifocal VEP by fMRI
            (S Islam, T Wüstenberg, M Bach, H Strasburger)

16     fMRI correlates of saccadic adaptation
            (S P Blurton, M Raabe, M W Greenlee)

17     Viewpoint sensitivity of visual representations of the human body in the extrastriate cortex
            (J C Taylor, A J Wiggett, P E Downing)

18     Relevant factors of flow field perception on models of computation neuroscience explored with dynamic causal modeling
            (P Spachtholz, F Acs, M Raabe, M W Greenlee)

19     Decision center for pattern discrimination in the human brain – localization and tractography
            (V A Fokin, G E Trufanov, Y E Shelepin, A K Harauzov, A V Sokolov, A Y Efimtsev)

20     Non-retinotopic feature integration has a neural pace of its own, as revealed by electrical brain imaging
            (G Plomp, M Mercier, T U Otto, O Blanke, M H Herzog)

Central visual pathways

21     Flickering light affects functional activity level in neurons of the kitten area 17
            (N S Merkulyeva, F N Makarov)

22     Cortical changes in haemoglobin concentration quantified using the frequency domain multi-distance method of functional near infrared spectroscopy
            (M A McIntosh, U Shahani, R G Boulton, D L McCulloch)

23     Training-induced changes of the oculomotor system: task-dependency or transfer effects?
            (R Dauner, S Schuett, J Zihl)

24     Learning to discriminate visual stimuli within the blind field following neuro-eye therapy
            (A Sahraie, M-J MacLeod, C T Trevethan)

25     A comparison of different ICA algorithms on a retinotopy fMRI data-set
            (M Goldhacker, I R Keck, V Fischer, E W Lang)

26     Blind for the blind spot
            (R Wolf, S Anstis, W van de Grind, L Spillmann)

27     The relationship between parvocellular cell firing and prepotentials in the macaque LGN
            (T Seim, A Valberg, B B Lee)

Neural mechanisms

28     Motion distorts position coding of flashes in primary visual cortex
            (G W Maus, J Fischer, D Whitney)

29     Contrast polarity reversals in L-junctions: Disrupting basic 'corner' processing?
            (M M Schira, B Spehar)

30     Scale-invariant image processing in the cat primary visual cortex
            (T Naito, H Osaki, H Sato)

31     Motion-form and form-motion interaction in perceptual disambiguation
            (J D Bouecke, H Neumann)

32     Functional importance of motion opponency in velocity tuning
            (S I Khan, D S Young, A O Philippides)

33     Regional cerebral blood flow as a response to a pattern reversal stimulus is independent of its contrast or temporal frequency
            (H Kojima, K Matsubara, S Taya)

34     Visual shape discrimination and shape similarity in rats
            (B Vermaercke, V Smaers, H P Op De Beeck)

34     Amantadine (PK-Merz) influence on the nerve impulse conduction within optic nerve in patients with multiple sclerosis
            (R V Maximov, G N Bisaga, S V Muravyova, A K Harauzov)

36     Late re-entrant modulation of human early visual cortex relates to successful report from iconic memory
            (C Sergent, C C Ruff, A Barbot, J Driver, G Rees)

37     Decoding the motion aftereffect in human visual cortex
            (F A J Verstraten, H Hogendoorn, T A Carlson)

38     Is this real or fake? An fMRI investigation of material properties
            (C Simões-Franklin, A T Whitaker, F McGlone, F N Newell)

39     Magneto-encephalographic response to the second-ordered visual attributes
            (Y Masuda, Y Tamori)

40     Interpreting the neural code with formal concept analysis
            (D M Endres, U Priss, P Foldiak)

41     Dependence of Vernier acuity on the presence/absence of aberrations of a human eye
            (V Karitans, M Ozolinsh, S Fomins)

42     The amygdala selects information for emotional decision making
            (R H A H Jacobs, R Renken, F W Cornelissen)

Temporal processing

43     Tracking the time course of processing spatial prepositions using response trajectories
            (F T van Vugt, P Cavanagh)

44     The effect of adaptation on visual sensitivity and cortical response to amplitude-modulated flicker
            (Y Okamoto, S Nakagawa)

45     The time course of visual masking: A critical analysis
            (T Elze, S Poppe)

46     Time-course contingencies in the identification of fragmented object outlines
            (K Torfs, S Panis, J Wagemans)

47     Matching of facial features: effects of timing, orientation, and face context
            (G Meinhardt, B Meinhardt, M Persike)

48     Fixational drift speed is tuned for sharp vision
            (A Paakkonen)

49     Influence of retinal eccentricity on disability glare recovery
            (I Arranz, B M Matesanz, L A Issolio, J A Menéndez, S Mar, J A Aparicio)

50     Disrupting the perceived time between visual events
            (S C M Quinn, R Goutcher, R J Watt)

51     How well can people judge whether two changes happened at the same time?
            (E Brenner, J B J Smeets)

52     Audio-visual speech timing sensitivity can be enhanced by crowding
            (W Roseboom, D H Arnold)

53     Spatial frequency affects perceived temporal duration
            (M Panichi, N Megna, S Baldassi)

54     Time course adaptation at different retinal eccentricities
            (B M Matesanz, I Arranz, L A Issolio, J A Menéndez, S Mar, J A Aparicio)

55     Local and global integration of direction information in constant and varying direction displays
            (N B Bocheva)

Object motion and optic flow

56     Independent processing of rotational and translational motion in the perception of moving objects
            (G P Caplovitz, K B Porter, C M Ackerman, P J Kohler, P U Tse)

57     Intra- and inter-modal completion of a visual motion representation
            (W Teramoto, S Hidaka, J Gyoba, Y-I Suzuki)

58     Attentional load decreases the strength of vection
            (T Seno, H Ito, S Sunaga)

59     Change in speed of movements affects interpretation of motion in 3-D scene
            (H Umemura, H Watanabe)

60     Visual steering of human behavior in navigation – a modeling investigation
            (F Raudies, H Neumann)

61     Top-down influence of size cues on the perceived visual speed of self-motion
            (D Berger, P Pretto, H H Bülthoff, J-P Bresciani)

62     Computations governing the spatiotemporal pooling of local motion directions
            (F Rocchi, T Ledgeway, B S Webb)

63     Pre-exposure to moving forms transiently improves objective sensitivity to static forms
            (T S Wallis, M A Williams, D H Arnold)

64     The role of cortical feedback in a hierarchical model of object perception
            (S Durabernal)

65     Inhibition of return (IOR) observed on the object trajectory
            (Y Shiozaki, S Ohtsuka)

66     When and why does masking affect long duration targets?
            (A Gellatly, D Guest, M Pilling)

67     Effects of task-irrelevant texture motion on time-to-contact judgments
            (D Oberfeld, H Hecht)

Selection and modulation

68     Attentional modulation of orientation discrimination across spatial frequencies
            (N Megna, S Baldassi)

69     A direct comparison of visual suppression by transcranial magnetic stimulation and metacontrast masking
            (H M Railo, M Koivisto)

70     Object representations maintain attentional control settings across space and time
            (D Schreij, C N L Olivers)

71     The times they are a'changin: Affective images impact time perception
            (N A Peatfied, J Intriligator)

72     BOLD signal in intraparietal sulcus covaries with magnitude of implicitly driven attention shifts
            (J Schultz, T Lennert)

73     Mechanisms of location- and object-based attention as revealed by the external noise paradigm
            (W-L Chou, C-C Chen, S-L Yeh)

74     Representation of stimulus uncertainty effects on speeded discrimination performance
            (J P Thomas, T Endestadt, S Magnussen)

75     Task-irrelevant size nonsingletons affect attentional prioritisation
            (A Shirama, A Ishiguchi)

76     Selective attention modulates motion speed learning by suppressing visible irrelevant stimuli
            (S-W Wang, C-H Tseng)

77     Attentional capture on locations: Effects across time and distance
            (I García-Ogueta)

78     Pre-masking is pre-attentive while post-masking is post-attentive
            (S-Y Lin, P Cavanagh)

79     A new object captures attention when you know it is new
            (F K Chua)

80     fMRI-correlates of the temporal evolution of a split of spatial attention
            (V Fischer, M Raabe, F H Hamker, M W Greenlee)

81     What is underlying facilitation effect in spatial cueing task?
            (Y Matsuda, T Yoshizawa, T Kawahara)

Multisensory processing

82     Visual basics: The tectum opticum in Gnathonemus petersii
            (R Pusch, G von der Emde, J Engelmann)

83     Evidence for optimal integration of auditory and visual components in audiovisual temporal rate perception dependent on modulation type
            (D Murphy, D Alais)

84     Enhanced predominance of motion-parallax stimuli in binocular rivalry
            (K Sakurai, M Shibata, T Kubodera, H Ono)

85     Neural correlates of priming for audiovisual stimulus processing at different levels of categorization
            (R Reisenauer, T Plank, M W Greenlee)

86     Multimodal combination of visual information about object size with observation of an actor: cue integration by the mirror neuron system?
            (M Gori, A Sciutti, G Sandini, D C Burr)

87     Sound expands perceived visual duration through pacemaker acceleration
            (S-L Yeh, K-M Chen)

88     Cross-modal feature integration shares the same rule as within-modal integration
            (M P To, R J Baddeley, T Troscianko, D J Tolhurst)

89     Asymmetric crossmodal interaction and priming effects in Ternus illusion
            (L Chen, Z Shi, H J Müller)

90     Brightness and definition of pictures seen from between the legs
            (A Higashiyama)

91     Effects of visual signal dropout and latency on temporal discrimination of visual-haptic collision
            (H Zou, Z Shi, L Chen, M Rank, S Hirche, H J Müller)

92     Audiovisual interactions in discrimination of intensity changes
            (I-F Lin, B G Shinn-Cunningham)

93     An invisible face becomes visible with a voice
            (Y-H Yang, S-L Yeh)

94     Disrupting tactile spatial transformations with TMS
            (E Azañón, M R Longo, P Haggard, S Soto-Faraco)

Haptic perception

95     Multisensory softness perception of deformable objects
            (K Drewing, A Ramisch, F Bayer)

96     Haptic, visual and bimodal volume perception of 3-D objects
            (M Kahrimanovic, W M Bergmann Tiest, A M L Kappers)

97     Pseudo-haptic sensation caused by background visual motion
            (J Watanabe)

98     Saccade characteristics reveal the timing of somatosensory encoding
            (K E Overvliet, E Azañon, S Soto-Faraco)

Object perception

99     Crossmodal facilitation of visual target identification at the level of object representation by the presentation of a concomitant sound
            (Y-C Chen, C Spence)

100    A visuomotor contribution to enhanced object recognition: compatibility between object rotation and hand movement during active exploration
            (T Sasaoka, N Asakura, T Inui)

101    The effect of background texture patterns on size perception
            (T Bando, H Uehara)

102    Performance of macaque monkeys in a two-alternative forced-choice body/object visual categorization task
            (N Emadi, H Esteky)

103    Age-related changes in matching objects across viewpoints
            (K S Pilz, Y Konar, Q C Vuong, P J Bennett, A B Sekuler)

104    The effect of head-direction and inversion of object images on visual recognition
            (E-K Ko, W H Jung, S-T Hwang)

105    Non-target scenes can influence the recognition of target objects
            (A Tanabe, N Osaka)

106    Pigeons' perception of Zöllner illusion: the tendency is opposite to that of humans
            (S Watanabe, N Nakamura, K Fujita)

107    Trompe-l'oeil painting compared with photography
            (R L Gregory, P F Heard)

108    An illusory figure with contextual arcs
            (A Bieleviĉius, L Mickienė, A Bulatov, A Bertulis)

109    EEG study on the perception of bistable Necker cube gratings
            (M Intaitè, M Koivisto, O Rukšènas, A Revonsuo)

110    Age-related changes in perceptual rivalry
            (S Aydin, V Manahilov, U Shahani, N Strang, W A Simpson)

111    A mathematical function describing assimilation and contrast
            (W A Kreiner)

112    Correlation between individual differences in the symmetry detection and same-different tasks
            (O Gurciniene, A Soliunas)

113    Anisotropy of filling-in of a moving line segment presented on one side of the blind spot
            (Y Araragi, H Ito, S Sunaga)

114    Priming of object categorisation within and across levels of specificity
            (J Martinovic, T Gruber, M M Müller)

115    What can you see in a mirror? Gross errors in people's knowledge about mirror reflections
            (R Lawson)

116    Rapid processing of meaningful symbols in an item-counting task
            (N Sakuma, E Kimura, K Goryo)

117    Object visual priming by low-pass, band-pass filtered, or normal versions
            (P Bordaberry, S Delord)

118    Object representation and graphical inversion phenomena
            (P De Fabritiis, E Falduto, C Lentini, R Daini)

119    Volume perception in motion
            (X Cheng, M Idesawa, Q Wang)

120    Experience-dependent modulation in the perception of ambiguous objects: priming and aftereffects
            (V Daelli, A Treves)

121    Finding the semantics in perception
            (D Rose)

Binocular mechanisms

122    The dorsal visual stream tracks changes in perceived viewing distance
            (M E Berryhill, I R Olson)

123    The role of focus cues in disparity scaling
            (P A Duke, D Buckley)

124    Influence of haptic stimulation on binocular rivalry
            (C Lunghi, P Binda, M C Morrone)

125    Blur, distance, and the perception of plastic depth
            (D Vishwanath, P Hibbard)

126    Maximum disparity and interocular differences in retinal-image quality
            (J R Jimenez, J J Castro, R G Anera, C Ortiz, A Alarcón)

127    Pupillary light responses correlated with changes in brightness rather than luminance during binocular rivalry
            (E Kimura, K Tanaka, S Abe, K Goryo)

128    Depth of binocular-rivalry suppression reduces with time of suppression: Electrophysiological evidence
            (U Roeber, S Veser)

129    Eye-of-origin biases in onset rivalry and dichoptic masking
            (M J Blanco, F Valle-Inclán, J Corral, I Serrano-Pedraza)

130    Perceptual quality of reconstructions of digital holograms: extending depth of focus by binocular fusion
            (R Näsänen, A Metso, T M Lehtimaki, T J Naughton)

131    The anatomical asymmetry of interhemispheric connections is retained in animals with impaired binocular vision
            (S N Toporova, S V Alexeenko)

132    Recognition of binocularly rival letters can be modulated by the prior presentation of one letter
            (K Goryo, E Kimura, S Abe)

133    Horizontal/vertical anisotropy in sensitivity to relative disparity depends on stimulus depth structure
            (I Serrano-Pedraza, J C A Read)

134    Binocular summation of contour integration thresholds
            (L Shono, C Suttle, S Khuu, L J Asper)

135    Compensatory changes in interocular alignment and cortical neuronal connections caused by early divergent strabismus
            (S V Alexeenko)

 

 

Friday to Saturday, August 28-29

 

Talk Session A
Visually guided eye and body movements

Friday, 28 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Tom C A Freeman & Jens V Schwarzbach

9:00   Ultra-fast saccades to faces: A temporal precedence effect?
            (S Crouzet, M Mathey, S J Thorpe)

9:15   Concurrent control of target selection and visual cortical representations by frontal eye field neurons
            (B Noudoost, T Moore)

9:30   Accurate remapping of saccade targets to non-foveal locations
            (M Rolfs, T Collins, H Deubel, P Cavanagh)

9:45   Bayesian analysis of perceived speed during smooth pursuit eye movement
            (T C A Freeman, R A Champion, P A Warren)

10:00  Split attention during simultaneous eye and hand movements
            (D Jonikaitis, H Deubel)

10:15  'Strategic' changes in grasping in response to visual uncertainty
            (B D Keefe, S J Watt)

10:30  Neural populations in the parietal and premotor cortices of humans perform abstract coding of motor acts: a TMS-adaptation study
            (J V Schwarzbach, M Sandrini, L Cattaneo)

10:45  Evidence for distinct roles of posterior superior temporal sulcus and inferior frontal areas in audiovisual action recognition
            (G F Meyer, S M Wuerger, M Greenlee, R Rutschmann)

 

Talk Session B
Visual-haptic processing

Friday, 28 August, 9:00 – 11:00
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Astrid M L Kappers & Christian Wallraven

9:00   Is tactile temporal processing based on somatotopic or spatiotopic space?
            (S Kuroki, J Watanabe, N Kawakami, S Tachi, S Nishida)

9:15   Exploring visual and haptic object categorization
            (N Gaissert, C Wallraven, H H Bülthoff)

9:30   The effect of clustering on haptic numerosity judgment
            (M A Plaisier, W M Bergmann Tiest, A M L Kappers)

9:45   Dynamic and static haptic perception of mass
            (W M Bergmann Tiest, A M L Kappers)

10:00  Size-sensitivity in visual and haptic object recognition
            (M Craddock, R Lawson)

10:15  Haptic orientation discrimination is severely impaired in blind and low-vision children
            (M Gori, G Sandini, C Martinoli, D C Burr)

10:30  Perceptual face space in vision and haptics
            (C Wallraven)

10:45  Comparison of the haptic and visual deviations in a parallelity task
            (A M L Kappers, W B Schakel)

 

Symposium
Neural correlates of consciousness

Friday, 28 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall Audimax, University of Regensburg

Organiser: Peter U Tse

14:00  Conscious and unconscious visual processing of faces, bodies, and tools
            (S He)

14:30  The role of feedback in visual attention and awareness
            (S L Macknik)

15:00  Localized neuronal 'Ignitions' underlying human visual perception
            (R Malach)

15:30  Visual awareness correlates with layer-specific activity in primary visual cortex
            (A Maier, C Aura, D Leopold)

16:00  Is the fronto-parietal network necessary for the experience of qualia?
            (P U Tse)

 

Talk Session C
Perception of shapes, objects, and faces

Friday, 28 August, 14:00 – 16:30
Lecture Hall H2, University of Regensburg

Moderators: Martin Jüttner & Roger Watt

14:00  Motion and form interact in expression recognition: Insights from computer animated faces
            (D W Cunningham, C Wallraven)

14:15  Multistable perception: When bottom-up and top-down coincide
            (J Kornmeier, C M Hein, M Bach)

14:30  Neural processing of binocularly suppressed object stimuli
            (P Sterzer, G Rees)

14:45  The role of experience for norm-based object encoding in human object-selective cortex
            (H P Op de Beeck, S Panis, J Wagemans)

15:00  Atypical objects are easier to spot
            (G Kayaert, S Panis, H P Op de Beeck, J Wagemans)

15:15  The development of part-based and configural object recognition in adolescence
            (M Jüttner, D Petters, E Wakui, J Davidoff)

15:30  Revisit the non-specific 'top-heavy' structure bias in young infants
            (S H-L Chien, H-Y Hsu, B-H Su)

15:45  Neural correlates of high-level adaptation related aftereffects
            (G Kovács, C Cziraki, M W Greenlee)

16:00  Decoding bar-codes in images of human faces
            (R Watt, S Dakin)

16:15  Exploring the data limitations associated with face perception in peripheral vision to understand unattended face processing
            (B B Harry, C Davis, J Kim)

 

Poster Session

Friday, 28 August, 11:30 – 13:00 (odd numbers)
Foyer & Kunsthalle of Central Lecture Building, University of Regensburg

Eye movements

1      Recasting the relationships between gaze movements and curvilinear self-motion
            (C N Authié, D R Mestre)

3      Head mobility influences gaze behaviour across natural viewing tasks
            (L L Chuang, S Herholz, H H Bülthoff, R W Fleming)

5      Spatial-frequency selectivity of visual suppression during convergence eye movements
            (S Mucke, V Manahilov, N C Strang, D Seidel)

7      Eye movements of science centre visitors
            (S J Duensing, P F Heard, L Perks, S Haigh, P Etchells, U Leonards)

9      Eye movement during the observation of novel and familiar faces in infants
            (M Kato, T Otobe, Y Konishi)

11     Natural viewing behaviour segregates fMRI activity in human visual cortex
            (J C Marsman, K V Haak, R Renken, F W Cornelissen)

13     Change-detection in driving scene images: A comparative analysis of the eye movements of experienced and novice drivers
            (M Tanaka, M Ikeda, G Qingwei, A Ishiguchi)

15     Object memory and eye movements are influenced by what you ask and how you ask it
            (G M Hübner, B W Tatler, K R Gegenfurtner)

17     Direct estimation of the point of gaze from functional MRI data
            (I R Keck, V Fischer, E W Lang)

19     The eyes have it: Attention allocation in judgements of personality traits for faces – there is an observer sex difference in orientation to salient facial features
            (B Kersten, T Roderer)

21     Role of perceptual similarity in anchoring creation of conceptual similarities and interpretation of visual metaphors
            (A Ojha, B Indurkhya)

23     Necker cube: correlation between perceived 3-D forms and distributions of gaze fixations
            (M G Zheltova, G I Rozhkova)

25     Individual differences in symmetry detection
            (A Soliunas, O Gurciniené, A Pleskaciauskas)

27     Müller-Lyer illusion: fundamental uncertainty of perceptual effect and influence on voluntary saccades
            (V V Ognivov, P V Maximov, G I Rozhkova)

29     Do eyes move as a tilt-pan like system? Physical plausibility of the coplanarity of the fixation planes
            (A Canessa, S P Sabatini, F Solari)

31     Smooth pursuit in apparent motion testing in different age groups
            (V P Bozhkova, N S Surovicheva, D P Nikolaev, D G Lebedev)

33     Apparent motion testing for pursuit efficiency in human vision
            (N S Surovicheva, D G Lebedev, V P Bozhkova, D P Nikolaev)

35     Compression of time during smooth pursuit eye movements
            (A C Schütz, K R Gegenfurtner, M C Morrone)

37     Localization of speed changes during fixation and smooth pursuit eye movements
            (K R Gegenfurtner, D I Braun, A C Schütz)

39     The Filehne Illusion following adaptation to simultaneous smooth pursuit eye movement and spatially non-coincident retinal motion
            (J R Davies, T C A Freeman)

41     Adaptation of catch-up saccades during the initiation of smooth pursuit eye movements
            (D Souto, A C Schütz)

43     Influences of task complexity and individual differences on the performance of gaze-assisted human-machine interfaces
            (H-J Bieg, L L Chuang, H Reiterer)

45     Connectivity analysis of attention shifting to pursuit and saccade targets with a massive model comparison approach
            (F Acs, V Fischer, M W Greenlee)

Saccades

47     Perceiving transsaccadic motion
            (H Mitsudo, S Nakamizo)

49     Slipping under the inhibitory radar? Near-threshold stimuli distract saccades more than higher contrasts do
            (A Bompas, P Sumner)

51     Inhibition revealed by saccade curvature and masked primes: is it the same mechanism?
            (R Walker, F Hermens, P Sumner)

53     Keeping an eye on each other: gaze behavior in joint action
            (R Volcic, M Lappe)

55     The adjustment of the focus of visual attention is determined at early levels of processing
            (M Cavallet, C Galera, M von Grünau, A Johnson)

57     Memory guided saccade processing in visual form agnosia
            (M Harvey, L Szymanek, S H Butler, S Rossit)

59     Perceptions of depth and asynchrony during eye movements
            (R Aruga, H Saito, H Ando, J Watanabe)

61     Direct gaze automatically affects the lateral orienting of visual attention
            (A Xaiz, E Bricolo, P Ricciardelli, A Maravita)

63     Temporal order judgments during saccades
            (K M Kliegl, G Volberg, M W Greenlee)

65     Response inhibition in hemispatial neglect
            (L Szymanek, S H Butler, S Rossit, B Olk, M Harvey)

67     Integration of shape information across saccades in apparent motion displays
            (D Melcher, A Fracasso, A Caramazza)

Visual working memory

69     Walk-related mimic word activates the extrastriate visual cortex in the human brain: An fMRI study
            (N Osaka, M Osaka)

71     Visuospatial working memory and aging
            (A Haberkamp, C Brück, M Töpper, D Vaitl, G Sammer)

73     Visual working memory for abstract shapes
            (V R Salmela, T Mäkelä, J Saarinen)

75     Dynamic imagery can enhance contrast sensitivity improvement by imagery
            (Y Tanaka, Y Tamori, N Asakura, R Suzuki)

77     Vertical illusory line motion and implied gravitational attraction
            (T L Hubbard, S E Ruppel)

79     Memory modulation of area V1
            (M H Sneve, S Magnussen, T Endestad, M W Greenlee)

81     Visual short-term memory for abstract patterns across encoding durations: effects of symmetry, element connectedness, and probe quadrant
            (H-C Lai, S H-L Chien, S-K Tai, H-Y Hsu)

83     Recognising random shapes with inverted contrast polarity
            (J-F Patri, J Ninio)

Crowding

85     A visual field asymmetry in crowding
            (F Perini, A Lingnau)

87     Integration of crowded orientation signals
            (E Poder)

89     On cortical origins of mega surround suppression
            (Y Petrov, O Meleshkevich)

91     Short-range and long-range linear summation of contrast in central vision: 2 and at least 16 cycles respectively
            (T S Meese)

Scene perception

93     Ordinal pairwise method for natural images comparison
            (J Vazquez-Corral, C Parraga, M Vanrell)

95     A new cone activation-based natural images dataset
            (C Parraga, J Vazquez-Corral, M Vanrell)

97     Finding keys under a lamppost: a scene-specific bias for target detection
            (K Amano, D H Foster, M S Mould, J P Oakley)

99     Studies of human vision model and recognition: some applications
            (B-W Wu, Y-C Fang)

101    The perception and aesthetic evaluation of normal and degraded images
            (P P Tinio, H Leder)

103    Characterising the spatio-temporo-chromatic (STC) properties of natural scenes
            (P G Lovell, C Benton, I D Gilchrist, D J Tolhurst, T Troscianko)

105    Visual perception in aircraft cockpit under real ambient lighting conditions: A procedure for the evaluation of readability and legibility
            (C Aghemo, M Fabbri, V Lo Verso, A Pellegrino, C Petrigni, L Rossi)

107    Experimental method for verification of formation of centre-symmetrical relations in human visual perception
            (S L Artemenkov)

109    Modelling visual attention: Putting a saliency model of eye guidance to a test
            (H Koesling, R Friesen, S Hammerl, F Lier, T Preuss)

Aftereffects and adaptation

111    Spatial transfer of 'half-face' aftereffect
            (R Azadi, H Karbalivand)

113    Does the protection zone prevent perceptual disappearance in motion-induced blindness?
            (L-C Hsu, C-Y Lin)

115    Ambiguous figures: Different levels of perceptual adaptation
            (R Wörner, M Bach, J Kornmeier)

117    Variance of visual error influences saccadic adaptation
            (K Havermann, M Lappe)

119    Retinotopic organization of high-level aftereffects
            (S Attarian, A Ezzati, S Talehy-Moineddin, M Sanayeid)

121    Multistable perception is never memoryless
            (A Pastukhov, J Braun, P Garcia, G Deco)

123    Figure plane binds the depth-after-effect
            (K van der Kooij, S F te Pas)

125    Centre-surround inhibition and the motion aftereffect in migraine
            (J Battista, D R Badcock, A M McKendrick)

127    Adaptation to biological motion leads to motion and form aftereffects
            (S Rau, M H E de Lussanet, M Lappe)

129    Chaser illusion and opponent colour aftereffects
            (U Atvars, S Fomins)

131    Detection of a novel aftereffect: Angle adaptation
            (E Rahmani, Y Najian Tabriz, S Talehy-Moineddin)

133    Re-calibration of subjective reference frame in the tilt illusion
            (A Tomassini, M J Morgan, J A Solomon)

 

Satellite Workshop
Animal visual ecology

Friday, 28 August, 17:00 – Saturday, 29 August
Salzstadel, Old Town of Regensburg

Organisers: Innes Cuthill, Ron Douglas, Daniel Osorio, Tom Troscianko, & Annette Werner
See details at http://www.theava.net/meetings/regensburg.html

 

Satellite Workshop
Shape perception in human and computer vision

Saturday, 29 August, 8:45 – 18:00
Salzstadel, Old Town of Regensburg

Organisers: Zygmunt Pizlo, Sven Dickinson, & Longin J Latecki
See details at http://viper.psych.purdue.edu/workshops/iwsphcv09/

 

Last updated on August 7, 2009 

32nd European Conference on Visual Perception        August 24th - 28th 2009 in Regensburg, Germany        University of Regensburg

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