OPAM '98 will be held in Dallas, TX on the day before the 1998 Psychonomics Society Meeting, Thursday, November 19, 1998. Registration will start at 8:30 AM, with talks beginning at 9:00. Fouteen to eighteen speakers will deliver 15-20 minute talks, with 5 minutes for questions after each. The workshop will be held in the Wyndham Anatole Hotel. This is the hotel for Psychonomics.
The workshop on Object Perception and Memory (OPAM) is an opportunity for researchers in visual perception and memory to present their most recent work. As is its tradition, the 1998 meeting of OPAM will take place the day before the Psychonomic Society Meeting in Dallas, Texas in the conference hotel. This notice is to encourage you to attend and to consider presenting your research on object/scene perception, recognition, and memory. Papers will be selected according to the following guidelines: 1.) To ensure that we hear as many ideas as possible, greater priority will be given to those who did not present last year. Graduate students will be given priority over post-docs, who will in turn be given priority over faculty (since the latter two groups should be able to present at Psychonomics). In the event that we have more submissions than available time slots, it may also become necessary to review submitted presentations. If so, submissions will be rated in terms of appropriateness to the topic of the meeting, general interest, and quality.
One and perhaps two travel grants (depending on the funds available) will be awarded to outstanding submissions. Preference will be given to presenters who do not have other means of travel support to attend this conference.
Please send submissions to Dan Levin or Alice O'Toole (addresses below) by Friday, July 31, 1998, either by electronic mail (preferred) or regular mail (late submissions will also be considered, but be given lower priority). All talks will be 15 minutes long, with an additional 5 minutes for discussion.
We will arrange to have an overhead projector and a slide projector available for the presentations. If necessary and monetarily feasible, we may be able to provide a TV/VCR; please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to make a presentation that requires a dynamic display. In order to pay for the conference room and AV euipment, it will be necessary to collect a registration fee ($25 for faculty, $15 for grad students and post-docs) from all attendees.You may send the registration fee with your submission or pay at the door. Please make checks out to Dan Levin. In addition to the program of presentations this year we will be holding a community dinner for all who would like to attend. Details will be available this summer. Please circulate this information as widely as possible. Thanks for your support, and we hope to see you at OPAM-98!
Alice O'Toole (otoole@utdallas.edu) and Dan Levin (dlevin@kent.edu)Co-chairs
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 9:00 | Opening Remarks, | |
Session 1: Early Vision and the Brain |
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| 9:05 | Anes, Liderman, & Watanabe | Binding What, Where, and When in Object Identification |
| 9:25 | Mangini, Biederman & Willams | Perceived Lightness as a Measure of Perceptual Grouping |
| 9:45 | Takarae, Melamed, McBeath | The Roles of the Magnocellular and Parvocellular Systems in the Perception of Dynamic Forms |
| 10:05 | Zavango & Massironi | Light from shadow: Is it a perceptual object? |
| 10:25 | Break | |
Session 2: Objects |
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| 10:40 | Burgund & Marsolek | Dissociable Mechanisms for Priming of Planar-Rotated Unfamiliar Objects |
| 11:00 | Liu & Wenger | Part-set cueing effect in visual object recognition |
| 11:20 | Key, Pani & Mervis | Visuospatial Constructive Ability of People with Williams Syndrome |
| 11:40 | Willems & Wagemans | Geometrical constraints on the perception of 3-D objects |
| 12:00 | Stankiewicz | Does human object recognition use independent shape dimensions? |
| 12:20 | Lunch - Posters from 13:30 | |
Session 3: Faces |
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| 14:00 | Bartlett & Tanaka | An attractor field model of face representation: Effects of typicality and image morphing |
| 14:20 | McKone, Martini, & Nakayama | Categorical perception of face identity in noise: A method for isolating configural processing |
| 14:40 | Zaki & Busey | Recognizing Rotated Faces: Properties of Symmetric Relations |
| 15:00 | Break and Posters | |
Session 4: Scenes and Space |
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| 16:00 | Christou, Tjan & Buelthoff | Influences of spatial context on novel object recognition |
| 16:20 | Wang & Spelke | Representation of Object relationship and Environment Shape |
| 16:40 | Scholl | Change Blindness and Exogenous Attentional Capture |
| 17:00 | Shelton & McNamara | Memory for spatial layout from visual and tactile experience |
| 17:30 | Closing Remarks, | |
| 17:35 | Done! | Posters - Presenting Author aksed to be available between 13:30-14:00 and 15:00-16:00 |
| 1 | Anderson & Marsolek | Computational properties of interhemispheric communication between abstract and specific visual-form subsystems |
| 2 | Chabris, Benjamin & Simons | How well do chess masters remember famous chess positions? Implications for theories of expertise |
| 4 | Lemon, Robertson, Jutai & Steffy | Evaluating the componential assessment of visual perception test (CAVP) as a measure of visual performance in the learning disabled. |
| 4 | Ruppertsberg | Playing a game can tell alot about face recognition |
| 5 | Van Veen, Sellen & Buelthoff | Pointing to hidden landmarks is similar in real and virtual environments |
| 6 | Martini & Nakayama | Spatial summation of facial images reveals configural processing |
| 7 | Vessel, Subramaniam & Biederman | When Does Variation in Contrast Polarity Affect Contour Grouping in Object Recognition? |
| 17:30 | Closing Remarks, | |
| 17:35 | Done! | |
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