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 | ||
8:00 | Registration | |
8:30 | Opening Remarks | |
Lead: Tim Vickery | Ecological perception | |
8:45 | Davoli & Brockmole | Holding On and Letting Go: The Allocation of Attention to space and Objects is Constricted and Slowed Near the Hands |
9:00 | Sugovic & Witt | Perception in obesity: Does physical or perceived body size affect perceived distance? |
9:15 | Caparos, Ahmed, Bremmer, Fockert, Linnell, & Davidoff | Exposure to an urban environment alters the local bias of a remote culture |
9:30 | Break | |
Lead: Carly Leonard | Visual working memory | |
9:45 | Fougnie, Suchow, & Alvarez | Variable precision among working memory representations |
10:00 | Fiacconi & Milliken | Interference in visual memory can obscure explicit awareness of contingencies |
10:15 | Tas, Luck, & Hollingworth | The automatic encoding of distractors into VWM through overt, but not covert attention |
10:30 | Ester, Anderson, Serences, & Awh | Sustained population responses in human primary visual cortex reveal individual differences in the precision of working memory |
10:45 | Break | |
Lead: Brian Levinthal | Object perception and recognition | |
11:00 | Liverence & Scholl | Selective inhibition of change detection along the axis of motion: A case study of perception compensating for its own limitations |
11:15 | Tapia, Breitmeyer, & Jacob | Properties of spatial attention during conscious and nonconscious processing of visual features and objects |
11:30 | Snow & Culham | Is the lateral occipital complex necessary for haptic object recognition? Object shape representation in a visual agnosic with bilateral occipito-temporal lesions. |
11:45 | Van Gulick & Gauthier | Category learning for a (perceptual) purpose |
12:00 | Lunch | (Posters should be up by now) |
1:00 | Poster Session | Ballroom 6ABC, Washington State Convention & Trade Center |
2:00 | Break | (Posters down by 2:15) |
Lead: Melissa Võ | Visual attention and conscious perception | |
2:15 | Bredemeier, Berenbaum, & Simons | Individual differences in controlled attention and susceptibility to inattentional blindness |
2:30 | Vatterott & Vecera | Experience with an irrelevant singleton is necessary to prevent capture in feature search mode |
2:45 | Wang & Most | Dissociating the impact of emotion from the impact of attentional capture on conscious perception |
3:00 | Hout & Goldinger | Multiple-target search increases workload but enhances incidental learning: A computational modeling approach to a memory paradox. |
3:15 | Break | |
3:30 | KEYNOTE ADRESS: Dr. Brian Scholl | It's Alive!: Some Visual Roots of Social Cognition |
4:40 | Closing Remarks |