[visionlist] OPAM Announces Dr. Joy Geng as Keynote Speaker for 2025

[OPAM Conference]

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33rd Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory

NEW WEBSITE: https://www.opamconference.com/

November 20, 2025 in Denver, Colorado

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The OPAM Team is excited to announce Dr. Joy Geng as the OPAM 2025 Keynote
Speaker!

Dr. Geng is a Professor for the Department of Psychology at UC Davis, where
she leads the Integrated Attention Lab <https://genglab.ucdavis.edu/home>.
She got started in the business with Michael Spivey at Cornell University
before moving to Carnegie Mellon for grad school with Marlene Behrmann.
After that, she went to UCL for a postdoc with Jon Driver and then to UCD
with Ron Mangun.


Dr. Geng and her students research the cognitive and neural mechanisms of
attention, with a particular focus on how the brain flexibly adapts to
environmental demands during perception and memory. Work in the lab
demonstrates that attentional templates—internal representations of target
features—are not fixed but dynamically shaped by context, uncertainty, and
target and distractor regularities. This perspective was shaped by early
work on statistical learning in neglect patients and has guided work over
the years on how prior knowledge optimizes attention and information
seeking within the current perceptual context. More recently, the lab has
begun to use more naturalistic tasks in VR to understand how visual search
unfolds in large scale spaces and over longer timescales.


Joy cares deeply about mentoring, and has been actively involved in
supporting research scientists, post docs, graduate students, and
undergraduate researchers in her lab and beyond.


Her lab has received funding from organizations such as the National
Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and private
organizations. Dr. Geng has also previously served as an associate editor
at Attention, Perception & Psychophysics and has served on grant review
panels for NSF and NIH. She is a fellow of the Association for
Psychological Science.

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OPAM abstract submissions will open soon, with the submission window
closing July 15, 2025. Abstract submission information can be found on *our
new website* <https://www.opamconference.com/opam2025>!


We look forward to seeing you at OPAM this year!


The 2025 OPAM organizers

Noah Britt, Dock Duncan, William Narhi-Martinez, Hong Nguyen, Giovanna Del
Sordo, & Sisi Wang
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