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style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#474747'>Vision Sciences Society</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>VSS 2018</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>May 18-23, 2018</span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:white'>St. Pete Beach, FL</span><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> 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style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-wrap: break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4580AD'>VSS is Honored to Present George Sperling with the 2018 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science</span></b><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4C4C4C'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#E4E3E8;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 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style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><img border=0 width=1 height=5 style='width:.0104in;height:.052in' id="_x0000_i1034" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif"><o:p></o:p></p></td><td width=5 valign=top style='width:3.75pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><img border=0 width=5 height=1 style='width:.052in;height:.0104in' id="_x0000_i1035" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>Congratulations to <b>George Sperling</b>, the third recipient of the Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science. The Nakayama Medal was created to honor Professor Ken Nakayama’s contributions to the Vision Sciences Society, as well as his innovations and excellence to the domain of vision sciences.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <span style='color:#403F42'>The winner of the Ken Nakayama Medal receives this honor for high-impact work that has made a lasting contribution in vision science in the broadest sense. </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>George is a professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, and the Institute of Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine. His research has resulted in numerous breakthroughs in vision science. Most recently, George has worked (with Charlie Chubb, Ted Wright, and Peng Sun) on developing efficient methods for measuring the perceptual attention filters that define feature attention.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>For more information about George Sperling and an overview of his career, please visit the </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001c8VfJWhEvq_JuFIYHqlvZYuNE5bVMPVKgD0sObpkfjS8McKrdsSLcGjQyd5flKAScLKJU4AbDJ2XmTMG9Vtic2VxLZsJEVFGDA0jjp9y8n8hPFK-qkviDBNri5JW3Tkt6cDqytlesi8t_EulIw5-GNkkxY8qYnK__AjvPkPLMXhSdEPg856A2tDAGvwRJfBI&c=Odcg_0TfhFJ_gtbouyrVmXKZQBmFdmRo2m_MZCW9915zrWwiE33jwA==&ch=bjWCXP6F0Dt-_4mM29rW3HkUObddXycTA_Z238_BaOezgEerg8pXDQ==" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'>Ken Nakayama Award</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'> page on the VSS website.</span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#403F42'>George will be presented with the medal and deliver a talk at the 2018 VSS Awards Session on Monday, May 21, at 12:30 pm. 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