Active Vision

32nd CVS Symposium
May 19-22, 2022 at Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY

Thursday, May 19, 2022

6:00 - 9:00 pm: Reception and Registration, Strathallan Hotel


Friday, May 20, 2022

8:00 - 8:45 am Registration & Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 am Welcome

Talk Session I: Eye Movements
Moderator: Markus Lappe, University of Münster

9:00 - 9:30 am Bart Krekelberg, Rutgers University
Active sensing in primary visual cortex

9:30 - 10:00 am Hamutal Slovin Bar-Ilan University
The effects of fixational eye movements on population responses in V1 of monkeys: from instability of visual processing to extra-retinal input

10:00 - 10:30 am Martin Rolfs, Humboldt University of Berlin
Investigating incidental sensory consequences of eye movements to understand perception

10:30 - 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 11:30 am Martina Poletti, University of Rochester
The impact of microsaccade preparation on visual perception across the foveola

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg, Tel Aviv University
Sometimes we need to look away: the central role of avoidance in active vision

12:00 - 12:30 pm Discussion

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch and Posters, Memorial Art Gallery Ballroom & B&L Parlor

Talk Session II: Sensorimotor Integration
Moderator: Jonathan Victor, Cornell University

2:00 - 2:30 pm Maria Concetta Morrone, University of Pisa
Rhythms in perception: action planning and behavioral oscillations

2:30 - 3:00 pm Kathleen Cullen, Johns Hopkins University
Vestibular processing during natural self-motion: implications for perception and action

3:00 - 3:30 pm Break

3:30 - 4:00 pm Frank Bremmer, Philipps-University Marburg
Self-motion processing in primates

4:00 - 4:30 pm Miriam Spering, The University of British Columbia
How perception and visually-guided action integrate multiple motion signals

4:30 - 5:00 pm Discussion

5:00 - 8:30 pm Poster Session,
Grazing dinner & drinks, Memorial Art Gallery Banquet Hall


Saturday, May 21, 2022

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 am Keynote Speaker: Dora Angelaki, New York University
Active sensing and flexible neural coding during visually guided virtual navigation

Talk Session III: Attention, Predictions and Learning
Moderator: Patrick Cavanagh, Center for Vision Research, York University

10:00 - 10:30 am David Burr, University of Florence
Predictive perception: serial dependence, optimality and neural oscillations

10:30 - 11:00 am Karl Gegenfurtner, Giessen University
The role of prediction for the interaction of saccadic and pursuit eye movements

11:00 - 11:30 am Break

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Michael Goldberg, Columbia University
The role of proprioception in establishing visuospatial memory

12:00 - 12:30 pm Joo-Hyun Song, Brown University
How does action training affect perception?

12:30 - 1:00 pm Discussion

1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch and take down posters, Memorial Art Gallery Ballroom & B&L Parlor

Talk Session IV: Locomotion and Self-motion
Moderator: Greg DeAngelis, University of Rochester

2:30 - 3:00 pm Brett Fajen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Coordination of gaze and action during high-speed steering and obstacle avoidance

3:00 - 3:30 pm William Warren, Brown University
Anticipation in perception and action: The case of collision avoidance with moving obstacles

3:30 - 3:45 pm Break

3:45 - 4:15 pm Jennifer Hoy, University of Nevada, Reno
The Computerized-Spontaneous Perception of Objects Task (C-SPOT) for assaying the development of mouse visual perception

4:15 - 4:45 pm Paul MacNielage, University of Nevada, Reno
Sensory and motor signals mediating stationarity perception

4:45 - 5:15 pm Discussion

5:15 - 7:30 pm Banquet, MAG M&T Ballroom


Sunday, May 22, 2022

All talks will be in Goergen Hall 101, River Campus
Meals and breaks will be held in the Munnerlyn Atrium

8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast

Talk Session V: 3D Perception and Action
Moderator: Doug Crawford, York University

9:00 - 9:30 am Scott Murdison, Reality Labs at Meta
Considering the active observer: Informing AR and VR head-mounted display design through principles of active vision

9:30 - 10:00 am Jenny Read, Newcastle University
Neural control of ocular accommodation

10:00 - 10:30 am Laura Thomas, North Dakota State University
Visual biases in peri-hand and peri-tool space

10:30 - 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 11:30 am Patrizia Fattori, University of Bologna
The posterior parietal area V6A: an attentionally-modulated visuomotor region involved in the control of reach-to-grasp action

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Fulvio Domini, Brown University
A novel non-probabilistic model of 3D cue integration

12:00 - 12:30 pm Discussion

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 6:00 pm Transportation to airport to depart