Symposium “Visual Search and Selective Attention” (VSSA IV; preliminary program)
Friday, 13th July, 2018
08.00 – 09.45 Arrival
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome
Session 1: Search guidance and attentional capture
[6 presentations = 3.5 hours]
10.15 – 11.15 Steven Luck (Keynote) – Mechanisms for the suppression of irrelevant objects during visual search
11.15 – 11.45 Charles Folk – Semantic templates and attentional capture
11.45 – 12.15 Joy Geng – The role of context in shaping dynamic attentional templates
12.15 – 12.45 Chris Olivers – Proactive and reactive control over target selection in visual search
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
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14.00 – 15.00 Check-In
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15.00 – 15.30 Jan Theeuwes – Statistical learning drives visual selection
15.30 – 16.00 Dominique Lamy – Attentional capture without attentional engagement: a camera metaphor of attention
16.00 – 16.45 Discussion
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16.45 – 17.15 Break
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17.15 – 18.45 Poster Session 1
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19.00 Dinner
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Saturday, 14th July, 2018
Session 2: Search guidance based on (acquired) ST/LT memory / selective attention in visual WM [6 presentations = 3.5 hours]
09.00 – 10.00 Kia Nobre (Keynote) – tba
10.00 – 10.30 Geoff Woodman – tba
10.30 – 11.00 Leonardo Chelazzi – Plasticity of priority maps of space
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11.00 – 11.30 Break
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11.30 – 12.00 Hermann J. Müller – tba
12.00 – 12.30 Alejandro Lleras – Search efficiency for targets defined by two feature dimensions can be predicted based on search efficiency measures for targets defined along a single dimension
12.30 – 13.00 Roy Luria – An object based pointer system underlying visual working memory ability to access its online representations
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
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14.00 – 14.45 Discussion
Session 3: Brain mechanisms of visual search [6 presentations = 3.5 hours]
14.45 – 15.45 Jeff Schall (Keynote) – Neural Control of Visual Search
15.45 – 16.15 John Serences – tba
16.15 – 16.45 Daniel Baldauf – tba
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16.45 – 17.15 Break
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17.15 – 18.15 Jeremy Wolfe (Symposium Lecture) – Anne Treisman’s legacy and the future of visual search
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18.15 Dinner
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Sunday, 15th July, 2018
Session 3: Brain mechanisms of visual search (continued)
09.00 – 09.30 Douglas Munoz – Neural circuits for saliency, priority and orienting
09.30 – 10.00 Talia Konkle – Predicting visual search from the representational architecture of high-level visual cortex
10.00 – 10.30 Jaqueline Gottlieb – The economics of search and attention: which target should I be looking for?
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10.30 – 11.15 Discussion
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11.15– 11.30 Break
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11.30 – 13.00 Poster Session 2
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13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
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Session 4: New data and models of visual search [6 presentations = 3.5 hours]
14.00 – 15.00 Gregory Zelinsky (Keynote) – Predicting goal-directed attention control: A tale of two deep networks
15.00 – 15.30 Melissa Le-Hoa Vo – tba
15.30 – 16.00 Ruth Rosenholtz – Capacity limits and how the visual system copes with them
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16.00 – 16.15 Break
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18.30 Symposium Dinner
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Monday, 16th July, 2018
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08.30 – 09.30 Check Out
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Session 4: New data and models of visual search [continued]
09.30 – 10.00 Arni Kristjánsson – Multifaceted dynamics of visual attention revealed in visual foraging tasks
10.00 – 10.30 Monica Castelhano – tba
10.30 – 11.00 Michael Hout – tba
11.00 – 11.45 Discussion
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12.00 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 Departure