<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Below is an announcement of new OPAM conference organizers that we would like to share across the visionlist network (also attached as a word document for convenience). Please, let me know if there are any specific requirements for the announcement to be posted.</div><div><br></div><div><div>All the best,</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Han Zhang, Karolina Krzys, Ryan O'Donnell, Dock Duncan, Noah Britt & William Narhi-Martinez</span> (2024 OPAM organizers)</div></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Subj: OPAM Welcomes New Organizers for 2024</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">******************************** OPAM 2024 ********************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">32th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.opam.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">http://www.opam.net/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">November 20, 2024 in New York City, NY, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">********************************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) conference would like to welcome three new organizers this year: Dock Duncan, Noah Britt and William Narhi-Martinez. They will be joining Han Zhang, Karolina Krzys, and Ryan O'Donnell to lead OPAM 2024 this coming November.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">During the deadline extension, we got a lot of nominations for strong candidates in different early career stages, and it was a difficult selection process. Preference was given to early-career researchers without faculty positions at the time of appointment, particularly postdoctoral researchers. This by no means disqualifies any of the other applicants, and we strongly encourage them to apply in future years.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We really appreciate the support from the OPAM community, and we would like to again thank Chenxiao Guan and Xiaoli Zhang for their exceptional service to the OPAM community. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">And one last thanks to our generous OPAM 2023 sponsors!</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">With additional manpower on board, we hope for new developments to OPAM. Please stay tuned for updates on our website, listserv, Twitter, and Facebook page for announcements and upcoming opportunities to present, participate, and sponsor OPAM. We look forward to seeing everyone in November!</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The OPAM 2024 organizers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Han Zhang, Karolina Krzys, Ryan O'Donnell, Dock Duncan, Noah Britt & William Narhi-Martinez</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">*OPAM 2023 Sponsors*</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Visual Cognition -</span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pvis20/current" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pvis20/current</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Psychonomic Society -</span><a href="http://www.psychonomic.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">www.psychonomic.org</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Exponent -</span><a href="https://www.exponent.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,76,189)"> https://www.exponent.com/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">SR Research -</span><a href="http://www.sr-research.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">http://www.sr-research.com</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">VPixx Technologies -</span><a href="http://vpixx.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">http://vpixx.com/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">NCI Behavioral Research Program -</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,66,179)"> </span><a href="mailto:todd.horowitz@nih.gov" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(25,76,189)">todd.horowitz@nih.gov</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University -</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.scenegrammarlab.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.scenegrammarlab.com/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Carlisle Attention and Memory Lab, Lehigh University -</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab/home" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab/home</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Queen’s Visual Cognition Lab, Queen’s University -</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://qvcl.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></a><a href="https://qvcl.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">Queen's Visual Cognition Laboratory (qvcl.ca)</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">OSU Vision & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, The Ohio State University - </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://u.osu.edu/golomblab/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">https://u.osu.edu/golomblab/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis - </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Objects and Knowledge Lab and Fougnie Lab, NYU Abu Dhabi - </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fougnielab/home" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">https://sites.google.com/site/fougnielab/home</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> & </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.oliviacheunglab.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.oliviacheunglab.org/</span></a></span></p></div></div>