AVA Meeting at Birmingham

AVA Annual Meeting 2009, 31ST MARCH 2009

Meeting Abstracts

The AVA Annual Meeting 2009 and AGM was held at the School of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Birmingham on Tuesday 31st March 2009.

The G J Burton Memorial lecture was given by

Professor Chris McManus (UCL)
“To please and entertain the eye": Explorations in visual aesthetics.

PROGRAMME
10:00 Registration and coffee.

Session 1: General

11:00 Transfer of perceptual learning in mid-level visual processing
David P McGovern, Ben S Webb & Jonathan W Peirce

11:20 Probing edge blur perception with reverse correlation
Keith A May, William H McIlhagga

11:40 Neural Basis of Motion Perception and Visual Navigation.
Saqib I. Khan, David S. Young, Andrew O. Philippides

12:00 The shape and development of oculomotor inhibition revealed by saccadetrajectory modulation.
Eugene McSorley, Alice G Cruickshank, L A Inman

12:20 – 13:20 Lunch and posters

13:20 – 13:40 Annual General Meeting

Session 2: Visual Aesthetics and Appearance

13:40 G J Burton Memorial lecture
"To please and entertain the eye": Explorations in visual aesthetics
Chris McManus

14:20 Do subjective equilibrium judgements correspond to physical reality?
Françoise Samuel, Dirk Kerzel

14:40 Social contexts alters perceptions of human movement: It matters where the action is going
A.J. Senkfor

15:00 Blur adaptation explained by a norm-based model of contrast adaptation
Mark A Georgeson, Sarah L. Elliott, Michael A. Webster

15:20 - 15:40: Tea / Coffee

Session 3: Objects and visual search.

15:40 Loss of the visual object recognition does not disrupt tactile recognition: evidence for direct tactile activation of visual cortex..
Harriet A Allen, Glyn W Humphreys

16:00 The role of texture gradients in figure-ground segmentation, Marco Bertamini and Andrew C. Shepherd.

16:20 Stochastic Search on a Homogeneous Surface Texture, Alasdair. D. F. Clarke, Patrick. R. Green, Michael. J. Chantler.

16:40 Object recognition is slowed by shadows of inconsistent orientation
Gillian Porter, Louise Stimpson, Andrea Tales, P. George Lovell

17:00 Social inhibition of return.
Geoff G. Cole, Paul A. Skarratt, & Alan Kingstone

17:20 Evening reception: wine and curry

Posters:

Single click image segmentation using mean shift.
Dragos Bozdog, Ionut Florescu, Rustam Stolkin

Optimal parameter selection for mean shift type segmentation algorithms
Dragos Bozdog, Ionut Florescu, Rustam Stolkin

Sex Differences in Facial Preferences
D Gill, Y Ritov

Looks like text messages take longer to comprehend than send.
Lisa Mayberry & Kenneth C. Scott-Brown

Suppression and summation in contrast gain control for human vision
Tim S Meese, Mark A Georgeson, Daniel H Baker, David J Holmes, Kirsten L Challinor & Robert J Summers

Using texture to recover shading and reflectance information from real images.
Peng Sun and Andrew J Schofield

Motion in depth from interocular differences in relative direction of motion
Christa van Mierlo, Eli Brenner, Jeroen B.J. Smeets

Learning image regularities for contour detection: when do you need a teacher?
Jiaxiang Zhang, D. Samuel Schwarzkopf & Zoe Kourtzi

Dr Andrew Schofield
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK, B15 2TT
+44 (0)121 414 5644

A.J.Schofield@Bham.ac.uk