<div dir="ltr"><h1><font size="2">Hello everyone, apologies for cross posting. <br></font></h1><h1><font size="2">Submission deadline to offer either a talk or a poster is midnight Nov 11th, GMT.</font><br></h1><h1>AVA Christmas meeting 2018 at Birkbeck, University of London</h1>
<b>17 Dec 2018</b>
<p>We will be celebrating the twenty third year of <span class="m_-4251577404040799768gmail-caps">AVA</span> (Applied Vision Association) Christmas meetings in 2018. The meeting will be on <b>Monday, December 17th</b>, at the Clore Management Centre, <b>Birkbeck</b>, University of London.</p>
<p>Birkbeck is very easy to get to. It is located on Malet St, London,
WC1E 7HX (it's at the rear of the British Museum). Kings Cross, St
Pancras and Euston rail stations are just a few minutes walk away. The
Clore Management Centre (number 2 on the map) faces the Birkbeck main
building (number 1 on the map) on Torrington Square. Russell Square is
the nearest tube station, although several others are also nearby
(Goodge St, Warren St, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Square, Holborn).
The reception and lecture theatre are on the lower ground floor of the
Clore, so please take the stairs to the right once inside the building,
or use the lift on the left.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/downloads/maps/central-london.pdf/view" target="_blank">http://www.bbk.ac.uk/downloads/maps/central-london.pdf/view</a></p>
<p>We have three fabulous<b> keynote speakers </b>and an art exhibition from Dr Shelley James:</p>
<h3><b>Dr Jenny Bosten</b>, the 2018 recipient of the David Marr medal. School of Psychology, University of Sussex.</h3>
<h3><b>"Calibrating colour perception to visual environments.”</b></h3>
<p>About Jenny: My research interests lie in visual perception,
particularly in colour vision, individual differences and spatial
information processing. In colour vision I am interested in visual
polymorphisms, their genetic determinants, and minority phenotypes
including anomalous trichromacy and tetrachromacy. I am interested in
how colour perception may be tuned genetically or developmentally to the
colour statistics of natural scenes. I use a combination of
psychophysical and genetic methods to explore the structure, function
and biological basis of the human visual system.</p>
<h3><b>Dr Ute Leonards. </b>Reader in Neuroscience, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol. </h3>
<h3><b>"The impact of the visual environment on locomotion."</b></h3>
<p>About Ute: My research interests fall into two big areas, sensory
neurosciences and human-robot-interaction. What unifies them for me is
my focus on human vision. Why vision? Because what we see guides our
movements, shapes our experiences and thoughts, influences how we
interact with others, and ultimately defines who we are. Who we are
defines what we see and how we see it.</p>
<p>I have a long history of working with other disciplines. For example,
I have been working with neurologists, neuropsychologists and
psychiatrists to study the mechanisms underlying visual perception,
attention and action in the context of a person’s individual
characteristics and the environment they live in. </p>
<p>More recently, and my main research area, I have been collaborating
closely with colleagues in biomechanics, computer vision, civil
engineering and humanities to understand how patterns in the visual
environment impact our movements, health and wellbeing.</p>
<h3><b>Dr Annette Allen</b>. Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester. </h3>
<h3><b>"Redesigning visual displays to understand melanopsin’s contribution to vision."</b></h3>
<p>About Annette: My research combines my expertise in the development
of bespoke lighting/display architecture with anatomical, physiological
and behavioural assays of vision. A direct impact of that research is
improved insight into how ambient/artificial lighting and displays can
be used to optimise visual experience and/or regulate the subconscious
effects of light over the course of the day.</p>
<h3><b>Dr Shelley James will have an exhibition of some of her work on engaging visual art.</b></h3>
<p>About Shelley: Shelley trained in textiles and started her career as a
design consultant for international brands including Visa
International, Shell and Cancer Research UK. She became fascinated by
depth perception and developed new glass- and print-making techniques to
create compelling illusions of depth and movement. She holds a PhD from
the Royal College of art and is Artist in Residence at the Bristol Eye
Hospital, Associate Artist and visiting lecturer at King's College and
London Universities. Current projects include collaborations with the
Bristol Vision Institute to explore the impact of patterns in the urban
environment on walking behaviour, Sir Roger Penrose on the optical
properties of quasiperiodic lattices and Professor Richard Wingate to
develop an interdisciplinary Synthetic Anatomy at King's College,
London.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shelleyjames.co.uk" target="_blank">www.shelleyjames.co.uk</a></p>
<p>Shelley will present a selection of optical toys during the break.</p>
<h3><b>The meeting:</b></h3>
<p>Registration opens at 10am, with the first talk session starting at
11am. The meeting should end around 5:30, with a drinks reception after.</p>
<h3><b>If you would like to offer a talk or poster:</b></h3>
<p>The local organiser is Dr Alex Shepherd, Department of Psychological
Sciences, Birkbeck. Email: <a href="mailto:a.shepherd@bbk.ac.uk" target="_blank">a.shepherd@bbk.ac.uk</a>. Telephone: 0207 631
6212. Please send abstracts directly to her, by midnight November 11th,
2018. No more than 500 words and please include authors, affiliation,
whether you are offering a talk or a poster, and who would be
presenting. You will be notified of acceptance within two to three
weeks.</p>
<p>Abstracts will be published in the journal Perception.</p><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4251577404040799768m_-6483241844630645768m_-793760971824752540m_8293377340853141530gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font size="2">**************************************************</font><br>Dr Alex Shepherd<br></div></div>Reader, Department of Psychological Sciences<br></div>Tel: +44 20 7631 6212<br></div><b><br>Perception lab on-line study: Tracking the migraine cycle: everyone is welcome to participate whether you do, or do not, get migraine</b><br><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/e/xp/88/1" target="_blank">http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/e/xp/88/1</a><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>