Program


The program for OPAM 2011 is available in a shorter version and a longer version that includes abstracts for all talks and posters.

OPAM 2011 Talk Session
Metropolitan A Ballroom, Sheraton Seattle
8:00Registration 
8:30Opening Remarks 
Lead: Tim VickeryEcological perception
8:45Davoli & BrockmoleHolding On and Letting Go: The Allocation of Attention to space and Objects is Constricted and Slowed Near the Hands
9:00Sugovic & WittPerception in obesity: Does physical or perceived body size affect perceived distance?
9:15Caparos, Ahmed, Bremmer, Fockert, Linnell, & DavidoffExposure to an urban environment alters the local bias of a remote culture
9:30Break 
Lead: Carly LeonardVisual working memory
9:45Fougnie, Suchow, & AlvarezVariable precision among working memory representations
10:00Fiacconi & MillikenInterference in visual memory can obscure explicit awareness of contingencies
10:15Tas, Luck, & HollingworthThe automatic encoding of distractors into VWM through overt, but not covert attention
10:30Ester, Anderson, Serences, & AwhSustained population responses in human primary visual cortex reveal individual differences in the precision of working memory
10:45Break 
Lead: Brian LevinthalObject perception and recognition
11:00Liverence & SchollSelective inhibition of change detection along the axis of motion: A case study of perception compensating for its own limitations
11:15Tapia, Breitmeyer, & JacobProperties of spatial attention during conscious and nonconscious processing of visual features and objects
11:30Snow & CulhamIs the lateral occipital complex necessary for haptic object recognition? Object shape representation in a visual agnosic with bilateral occipito-temporal lesions.
11:45Van Gulick & GauthierCategory learning for a (perceptual) purpose
12:00Lunch(Posters should be up by now)
1:00Poster SessionBallroom 6ABC, Washington State Convention & Trade Center
2:00Break(Posters down by 2:15)
Lead: Melissa VõVisual attention and conscious perception
2:15Bredemeier, Berenbaum, & SimonsIndividual differences in controlled attention and susceptibility to inattentional blindness
2:30Vatterott & VeceraExperience with an irrelevant singleton is necessary to prevent capture in feature search mode
2:45Wang & MostDissociating the impact of emotion from the impact of attentional capture on conscious perception
3:00Hout & GoldingerMultiple-target search increases workload but enhances incidental learning: A computational modeling approach to a memory paradox.
3:15Break 
3:30KEYNOTE ADRESS: Dr. Brian SchollIt's Alive!: Some Visual Roots of Social Cognition
4:40Closing Remarks