Program
OPAM 2006 Program Book
The program book includes the talk schedule, poster session information, and abstracts for the talks, posters, and the keynote. Click on the image below to download a pdf of the program book.
Talk Schedule
All talks will be held in Grand Ballroom J and K
| 7:45 | Registration | |
| 8:15 | Opening Remarks | |
| Session Chair: Kate Arrington |
Visual Organization | |
| 8:20 | Leslie Blaha, Shannon Johnson, & James Townsend | An Information Processing Investigation of Hierarchical Form Perception: Evidence for Parallel Processing |
| 8:35 | Jacqueline Fulvio, Manish Singh, & Laurence T. Maloney | Testing the relatability hypothesis: Inducer offset, not turning angle, is critical for visual interpolation |
| 8:50 | George Alvarez & Aude Oliva | The Role of Global Layout in Visual Short-term Memory |
| 9:05 | Break | |
| Session Chair: Andy Leber |
Object Selection and Attentional Control | |
| 9:20 | Menahem Yeari & Morris Goldsmith | Is Object-Based Attention Mandatory? |
| 9:35 | Benoit Brisson & Pierre Jolicoeur | Early Crossmodal Multitasking Interference Revealed by Event-Related Potentials |
| 9:50 | Emilie Leblanc & Pierre Jolicoeur | Can Capture of Visuospatial Attention be Contingent on Category? Behavioural and Electrophysiological Evidence |
| 10:05 | S. M. Shahab Ghorashi, Raymond M. Klein, & Vincent Di Lollo | Spatial Cues Can Survive the Attentional Blink Deficit |
| 10:20- 11:45 | Poster Session | Ballroom of the Americas |
| 11:45 | Lunch | |
| Session Chair: Steve Franconeri |
Perception of Objects | |
| 12:45 | J. Stephen Higgins, Ranxiao Frances Wang, & David E. Irwin | The Landmark Effect in Perceived Object Stability: A General Mechanism |
| 1:00 | Brian Levinthal & Alejandro Lleras | The Unique Contributions of Retinal Size and Perceived Size on Change Detection |
| 1:15 | Elias Cohen & Qasim Zaidi | The Oblique Effect and Three Dimensional Shape |
| 1:30 | Dane Sorensen & Karl Bailey | The World is Too Much: Effects of Array Size on the Link between Language Comprehension and Eye Movements |
| 1:45 | Break | |
| Session Chair: Monica Castelhano |
Perception of Faces and Scenes | |
| 1:55 | Fang Jiang, Volker Blanz, & Alice J. O'Toole | The Role of Familiarity in 3D View Transferability of Identity Adaptation |
| 2:10 | Leslie Steede, Jeremy Tree, & Graham Hole | Dissociating Mechanisms Involved in Accessing Identity by Dynamic and Static Cues |
| 2:25 | Graham Pierce & John Henderson | The Control of Fixation Duration During Scene Perception |
| 2:40 | Xingshan Li, Keith Rayner, Carrick Williams, Kyle Cave, & Arnold Well | Eye Movements and Individual Differences |
| 2:55 | Break | |
| 3:00 | Keynote Speaker: Nancy Kanwisher | Functional Specificity in the Cortex: Selectivity, Experience, and Generality |
| 4:00 | Closing Remarks |