[visionlist] OPAM Announces Dr. Edward Awh as Keynote Speaker for 2024

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32nd Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory

http://www.opam.net/

November 21, 2024 in New York City, NY

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The OPAM Team is excited to announce Dr. Edward Awh as the OPAM 2024
Keynote Speaker!

Dr. Awh is a Professor for the Department of Psychology, The Institute for
Mind and Biology, and the University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute at
the University of Chicago, where he also co-leads the Awh/Vogel Lab
alongside Dr. Ed Vogel.


Dr. Awh and his students investigate the interactions of working memory and
attentional selection processes via behavioral and neuroimaging approaches
such as fMRI and EEG. His early work with positron emission tomography
focused on the cortical regions supporting working memory, and the
overlapping circuits that were identified for working memory and spatial
attention. Notably, his research has heavily contributed to conversations
about the nature of working memory representations and the capacity limits
that arise from them. With respect to attention, he published the first
paper coining the term selection history as an attentional guidance
mechanism, motivating wider efforts to distinguish between goal-driven and
history-driven influences on attentional selection. In the past decade, Ed
and his lab have helped pioneer multivariate approaches for tracking
spatial attention and working memory storage, using various oscillatory and
voltage-based EEG signals. More recently, his team has focused on
electrophysiological evidence for a content-independent indexing process
that may help to explain item-based limits for storage in visual working
memory.


His lab has received funding from organizations such as the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Office of
Naval Research. Dr. Awh has also previously served as an associate editor
at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, associate and senior editor at Psychological
Science, and is currently an Associate Editor at Cognition. He is an
elected fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and a Fellow
of the Association for Psychological Science.

Dr. Awh is passionate about mentoring trainees, and has been actively
involved in supporting the development of research scientists, post docs,
graduate students, and undergraduate researchers in his lab.

Dr. Awh completed his B.A. at Northwestern University and his Ph.D. at the
University of Michigan, after which he completed a postdoctoral fellowship
at the University of California: San Diego. He was previously an Assistant,
Associate and Full Professor at the University of Oregon before moving to
UChicago. To learn more about Dr. Awh and his work, please visit his lab
page <https://awhvogellab.com/>.


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OPAM abstract submissions will soon open, with the submission window
closing July 15, 2024. Abstracts can be submitted on our website
<http://www.opam.net/?page_id=57>!



OPAM runs solely on the support of generous sponsors. Sponsorship rates
begin at $225, which includes advertising space in the OPAM program,
website, and emails, and spotlight exposure during the conference. To learn
more about becoming a sponsor for OPAM 2024, please visit our website
<http://www.opam.net/?page_id=554> or e-mail us at opam.info at gmail.com. We
appreciate your support!


We look forward to seeing you at OPAM this year!


The 2024 OPAM organizers

Noah Britt, Dock Duncan, Karolina Krzys, William Narhi-Martinez, Ryan
O’Donnell, & Han Zhang
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