<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">After a one-year postponement, we are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the 26th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society (</span><span style="color: rgb(94, 48, 235);" class=""><a href="http://www.icvs2022.org" class="">www.icvs2022.org</a></span><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">). The meeting will take place in Heraklion, Greece, from July 1st to July 5th, 2022. The conference will offer invited talks, oral and poster presentations, and social and cultural events to promote networking. At the moment, we are concentrating our efforts on an in-person event. However, we are closely monitoring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we will make any necessary adjustments if needed.</span></p><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">In the upcoming meeting, the Society will honor Professor Paul Martin (University of Sydney, Australia) with the Verriest Medal for his work on early visual processing in primates. We are also pleased to announce a line-</span><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">up of distinguished Invited Speakers that includes Professor Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen University, Germany), Dr. Stella Katsarou (Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Greece), and Dr. Sophia Sotiropoulou (Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece).</span></p><div class=""><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">The International Colour Vision Society meetings bring together physiologists, psychologists, physicists, geneticists, optometrists, ophthalmologists, and visual scientists who have a research interest in the many aspects of colour vision and colour vision deficiencies.</span></p><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">We invite you to submit an abstract in any of the following topics: Acquired deficiencies of colour vision, chromatic mechanisms, colour cognition, colour in occupational environments, colour induction and constancy, colour in mesopic conditions, colour naming, colour vision assessment, comparative colour vision, congenital colour vision deficiencies, digital reproduction of colour information, ecology of colour vision, effects of aging on colour vision, electrophysiology of colour processing, functional imaging and colour vision, genetics of colour vision, object-surface properties, material perception, peripheral colour vision, physiology of colour vision, unique hues, variability in colour vision. Other topics of interest to the Society are, of course, welcome.</span></p><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">Abstract submission opened on January 10th, 2022, and will remain open until March 15th, 2022. Acceptance notifications will be sent on April 15th, 2022.</span><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">The conference's website (</span><span style="color: rgb(94, 48, 235);" class=""><a href="http://www.icvs2022.org" class="">www.icvs2022.org</a></span><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">) is updated regularly and offers information about invited speakers, travel, hotel accommodation, abstract submission, registration etc.</span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">On behalf of the Organizing Committee,</span></p><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(14, 16, 26);" class="">Thanasis Panorgias, PhD</span></p><p class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">Associate Professor of Vision Science</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">New England College of Optometry</span></p><div class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></div><div class=""><u class="">Organizing Committee</u></div><div class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></div><div class="">Maria makridaki, PhD, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece</div><div class="">Dimitris Mylonas, PhD, University College London & Goldsmiths, University of London, UK</div><div class="">Thanasis Panorgias, PhD, New England College of Optometry, USA (Chair)</div><div class="">Neil Parry, OhD, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, UK</div><div class="">Jack Werner, PhD, University of California Davis, USA</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><u class="">Scientific Committee</u></div><div class=""><u class=""><br class=""></u></div><div class="">Claudia Feitosa-Santana, PhD, Neuroscience for Human Development, Brazil</div><div class="">Jasna Martinovic, PhD, University of Aberdeen, UK</div><div class="">Maureen Neitz, PhD, University of Washington, USA</div><div class="">Thanasis Panorgias, New England College of Optometry, USA (Chair)</div><div class="">Miltiadis Tsilimparis, MD, University of Crete, Greece</div><div class="">Michael Webster, PhD, University of Nevada Reno, USA</div></div></div></div></body></html>
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