OPAM 1996

	aaa	The 4th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory Thursday 31 October, 1996 Hyatt Regency Hotel Chicago, IL, USA.
		Organizers: Michael K. McBeath Department of Psychology Kent State University (moved to Arizona State University <m.m@asu.edu>)	James W. Tanaka Department of Psychology Oberlin College (moved to University of Victoria <jtanaka@uvic.ca>)

OPAM 1996 Schedule

Time	Speaker Name	Presentation Title
9:00 a.m.	Mike McBeath	Welcome and Opening Remarks
Sessiona1aaa	Chair - Mike McBeath - Kent State University
9:10 a.m.	Peter Kalocsai and Irving Biederman	Adding horizontal connections and extension fields to a low level recognition model qualitatively improves its performance
9:30 a.m.	Daniel Levin	Association, feature selection, and the cross race recognition deficit
	10 Minute Break
10:00 a.m.	Frank Tong and Ken Nakayama	Finding faces in a crowd: Familiarity and inversion effects in visual search
10:20 a.m.	Isabel Gauthier, Marlene Behrmann, Michael Tarr, Adam Anderson, and John Gore	Subordinate-level categorization in human inferior temporal cortex: Converging evidence from neuropsychology and brain imaging
	15 Minute Break
Session 2	Chair - Paddy McMullen - Dalhousie University
10:55 a.m.	John Pani	Objects in spatial transformations
11:15 a.m.	Rebecca Lawson and Pierre Jolicoeur	Plane rotation effects the identification of brief, masked stimuli
	10 Minute Break
11:45 a.m.	Zoe Kourtzi and Maggie Shiffrar	Viewpoint-invariance in a moving world
12:05 p.m.	Jim Townsend and Michael Wenger	Infinite Dimensional general recognition theory (IDGRT) and its implication for object perception and memory
	Lunch
Session 3	Chair - Jim Tanaka - Oberlin College
2:00 p.m.	Moshe Bar and Irving Biederman	Subliminal visual priming
2:20 p.m.	Steffen Werner	Seeing unfamiliar ambiguous figures: Semantic primes can influence what we see, and only what we see is semantically primed
	10 Minute Break
2:50 p.m.	Sean McAuliffe and John Hummel	Priming of visual representations using a weight judgment task
3:10 p.m.	Lisa Barns and Patricia Reuter-Lorenz	Shared mechanisms of object-based attention and object working memory
	15 Minute Break
Session 4	Chair - Kavitha Srinivas - Boston College
3:45 p.m.	Glyn Humphreys and Derrick Watson	Visual marking of objects in scenes
4:05 p.m.	Gary Klatsky	The effect of scene defining objects and scene organization on the detection of objects in real world scenes
	10 Minute Break
4:35 p.m.	Tom Busey	Do stereoscopic depth cues remain in memory to assist recognition?
4:55 p.m.	Tom Sanocki, Kevin Bowyer, Michael Heath, and Sudeep Sarkar	Are edges sufficient for object recognition?

Historical Notes on OPAM:
The First Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory (OPAM) was held in November 1993.
The organizers for the first two OPAM workshops in 1993 and 1994 were Michael Tarr and Irving Biederman
John Hummel helped organize the third workshop in 1995.

Early OPAM Workshop	Understanding Characteristics of Objects

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