
Location: Vari Hall, York University, Keele campus (see map)
Presentations: Lecture Hall C (second floor)
Registration, coffee, snacks, and lunch: Room 1152A (first floor)
Posters: Vari Hall Rotunda (main entrance)
Program
8:30 am – 9:00 am Breakfast and Registration (Room 1152A)
9:00 am – 9:10 am Welcome & Acknowledgements (Denise Henriques; Lecture Hall C)
9:10 am – 10:10 am Talk Session I (Chair: Craig Chapman; Lecture Hall C)
- 9:10 – 9:25 - Response conflict neurons: Re-evaluation in medial frontal cortex of non-human primates
Benjamin Corrigan, Steven P. Errington, Amirsaman Sajad, Jeffrey D. Schall.
Centre for Vision Research, York University
- 9:25 – 9:40 - A vestibular contribution to time-to-contact estimation?
Björn Jörges, Laurence R. Harris.
Centre for Vision Research, York University
- 9:40 – 9:55 – Scene semantic effects on spatial coding in naturalistic (virtual) environments
Bianca R Baltaretu, Petros Georgiadis, Melissa L-H Võ, Katja Fiehler
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
- 9:55 – 10:10 - Ocular tracking movements in individuals with central vision loss
Charlie Grisé-Joly, Aarlenne Khan
School of Optometry, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
10:10 am – 10:30 am Coffee Break (Room 1152A)
10:30 am – 1:30 pm Poster Session (Vari Hall Rotunda; list of posters below)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Room 1152A)
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Talk Session II (Chair: Peter Jes Kohler; Lecture Hall C)
- 1:30-1:45 – The Contribution of Configural Shape to Object Recognition is Processed by a Late-Onset Mechanism Likely Localized in Right Temporal Cortex
Shaya Samet, Jasman Kahlon; James H Elder; Nick Baker; Erez Freud; Peter J Kohler
Centre for Vision Research, York University
- 1:45-2:00 - Early nutrition is associated with global motion perception and V5 function in 7-year-old children born very preterm
Linda Nguyen, Andrew E. Silva, Tanya Poppe, Myra Leung, Jane M. Alsweiler, Joanna Black, Jane E. Harding, Anna C. Tottman, Benjamin
Thomson
University of Waterloo, University of Auckland, University of Canberra
- 2:00-2:15 – Cortical networks for egocentric vs. landmark-centered coding of remembered reach
Lina Musa, Amirhossein Ghaderi, Ying Chen and J. Douglas Crawford
Centre for Vision Research, York University
- 2:15-2:30 - Probing the Neural Basis of Visual Abstraction: Macaques and ANN Models Achieve Similar Sketch Recognition Performance
Umael Qudrat, Shirin Alamootim, Judith Fan, Kohitij Kar
Department of Biology, York University
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Coffee Break (Room 1152A)
3:00 pm – 4:15 pm Keynote Lecture by Dr. Doug Crawford, Director, Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience, CIAN (Chair: Aarlenne Khan; Lecture Hall C)
Landmark-centered coding in the human reach system: Behaviour, network analysis, and TMS.
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm Closing remarks (Chris Striemer, Lecture Hall C)

