<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:black;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subj: OPAM 2025 Call for Organizers</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">******************************** OPAM 2025 ********************************</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">33rd Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.opam.net/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://www.opam.net/</a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">November 20, 2025 in Denver, CO, USA</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">********************************************************************************</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Dear OPAMers,</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Firstly, we would like to acknowledge the exceptional contributions made by our outgoing OPAM organizers; Han Zhang, Ryan O’Donnell and Karolina Krzys. Their work was crucial for a successful OPAM32 in New York last year. Furthermore, their contributions were key in acquiring an NSF grant to help fund new initiatives to grow the OPAM community in the years to come. They were inspirational to work with and we look forward to their continued involvement from the sidelines!</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">We are currently seeking to fill <b>three</b> positions as OPAM organizers for two-year terms starting in spring 2025. The selection process will be based on candidates’ experience and nomination letter, which should be sent to </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:opam.info@gmail.com" target="_blank">opam.info@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"> by <b>March 1st, 2025</b>. We ask that a link to the candidate’s website (if applicable) and a CV is submitted along the nomination letter. Interested candidates are encouraged to seek a nomination from a researcher who knows them well. If that person is not the candidate's supervisor, we require a short letter of approval from the supervisor. The candidates are also encouraged to include a short cover letter expressing how they see themselves contributing to the growth of the OPAM community in the years to come, with special emphasis on our now NSF funded initiatives to increase the diversity and reach of our community.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Criteria for the selection of OPAM organizers include the breadth and depth of research experience and expertise in visual cognition (e.g., familiarity with a broad range of object-processing literature), as well as excellent organizational and interpersonal skills. Preference is given to early-career researchers without faculty positions at the time of appointment, particularly postdoctoral researchers.</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">We look forward to receiving nominations from qualified candidates eager to contribute to the continued success of OPAM. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:opam.info@gmail.com" target="_blank">opam.info@gmail.com</a>.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Thanks again to everyone who made OPAM 2024 such a success. Special thanks to our sponsors, who keep OPAM free! Stay tuned for exciting announcements about OPAM 2024 in the coming months.</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Sincerely,</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">The 2025 OPAM organizers</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Dock Duncan, Noah Britt, William Nasri-Martinez</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">*OPAM 2024 Sponsors*</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The Psychonomic Society -</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.psychonomic.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">www.psychonomic.org</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">JS Held - <a href="https://www.jsheld.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.jsheld.com/</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">SR Research -</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.sr-research.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://www.sr-research.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Exponent -</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.exponent.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:rgb(25,76,189);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> https://www.exponent.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Frontiers in Cognition - <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Visual Cognition -</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pvis20/current" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pvis20/current</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">VPixx Technologies -</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://vpixx.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">http://vpixx.com/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gorilla - <a href="https://gorilla.sc/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://gorilla.sc/</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University -</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><a href="https://www.scenegrammarlab.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black"> </span>https://www.scenegrammarlab.com/</a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Carlisle Attention and Memory Lab, Lehigh University -</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><a href="https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab/home" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab/home</a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Queen’s Visual Cognition Lab, Queen’s University -</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><a href="https://qvcl.ca/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="color:black"> </span></a><a href="https://qvcl.ca/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">Queen's Visual Cognition Laboratory (qvcl.ca)</a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">OSU Vision & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, The Ohio State University - </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><a href="https://u.osu.edu/golomblab/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://u.osu.edu/golomblab/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis - </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black"><a href="https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/</a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">George Washington University - <a href="https://blogs.gwu.edu/shom/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://blogs.gwu.edu/shom/</a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-CA" style="color:black">The NSSR Perception Laboratory - <a href="https://www.nssrperception.com/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.nssrperception.com/</a></span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-CA"><font face="arial, sans-serif">UMass Lowell - <a href="https://www.meganpapesh.com/emmalab" target="_blank" style="color:blue">https://www.meganpapesh.com/emmalab</a></font></span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>