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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear colelagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are excited to be able to send an advance announcement about the 42<sup>nd</sup> edition of the European Conference of Visual Perception (<b>ECVP</b>), which we will organize in
<b>Leuven from August 25 to 29, 2019</b>. ECVP is an interdisciplinary conference dedicated to the study of visual perception (although cross-modal work is welcome too), using a variety of methods (psychophysics, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, computational
modeling, …). Most research presented at ECVP is traditionally rather fundamental but we are very much open to clinical (brain damage, autism, schizophrenia, …) and other more applied work (sports, arts, design, ergonomics, …). For some additional description
of the nature and history of the meeting, see the </span><a href="https://www.ecvp2018.org/historyecvp2018"><span lang="EN-US">website</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> of this year’s edition in Trieste.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The conference will start on Sunday, with tutorials on multidisciplinary topics and techniques and the traditional Perception Lecture, followed by a reception. We are proud to have
</span><a href="https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/behrmannlab/"><span lang="EN-US">Marlene Behrmann</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) for this opening lecture on
<i>“A broader vision of vision”</i>. On Wednesday evening, we have the Rank Prize Lecture by
</span><a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/staff/philippeschyns/"><span lang="EN-US">Philippe Schyns</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> (Glasgow University, Scotland, UK) on
</span><i><span lang="EN-US">“Content Imaging: Bridging between stimulus, brain and behavior”</span></i><span lang="EN-US">.
</span><span lang="EN-US">The rest of the program will consist of (invited) symposia, regular talk sessions, and multiple poster sessions, spread evenly across the week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The local organizers are all affiliated to the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), belonging to 5 different faculties. KU Leuven is the oldest university in the Low Countries (founded in 1425) and presently Belgium’s largest
university. The conference venue will be a collection of university buildings in the attractive historical center of Leuven, all within easy walking distance from each other.
<a href="https://www.visitleuven.be/en">Leuven</a> is a pleasant, pedestrian-friendly, small university city located in Flanders, the
<span style="color:black">Dutch-speaking region of Belgium</span>. Leuven is approximately 25 kilometers east of Brussels, with a direct 15-min train connection to the national airport (Brussels-Zaventem), which makes it easy to reach from anywhere in the world
and an attractive hub to visit major cities in Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges, …) and elsewhere in Europe (Amsterdam, Paris, London are all less than 2h away by train from Brussels-Midi).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Please save the date. We look forward to welcoming you at ECVP in Leuven in 2019!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On behalf of the local organizers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Johan Wagemans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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