OPAM and Visual Cognition
August 29, 2005
Dear OPAM Community,
We are pleased to announce the establishment of a formal association between
OPAM and Visual Cognition. Both the workshop and journal began at the same
time in the early 1990s with similar overarching goals of providing outlets
for rapid sharing of experimental research and theoretical development in areas
of scientific investigation that overlap greatly. Over the last dozen years,
these entities have developed, expanding both in size and impact. Beginning
with this year’s workshop, the two organizations will be teaming up to bring
the cutting edge research in the area of object processing presented at OPAM
to the wider research community studying visual cognition.
The primary aspect of this relationship between OPAM and Visual Cognition is
that the 1,000 word research summaries from the 15 talks presented at the
workshop will be published in the journal. The summaries from this year’s
workshop will appear in early 2006 and in future years in a fall issue coinciding
with the workshop. In addition to publishing the talk summaries, Visual Cognition
encourages all individuals presenting research at OPAM to consider the journal
as an outlet for full length manuscripts of the presented research.
OPAM has been rapidly growing in recent years, as can be seen in the record
breaking number of submissions to OPAM this year. With this growth, OPAM has
remained true to its mission of providing junior researchers with a venue for
presenting high quality research. We believe that the association with Visual
Cognition will further this important aim by allowing for the opportunity to
share this work with the broader research community.
We look forward to an excellent workshop in Toronto and hope to see you there.
Sincerely,
OPAM Organizers
Kate Arrington
Andy Leber
Steve Mitroff
Aude Oliva