Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium

July 31st, 2026, 02.00 – 06.00 pm

The program for the Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium is now available here: https://summerschool.lizhaoping.org/symposium-2026/

To participate via zoom, please register FOR FREE. Registration is accepted until space is filled!

 

Keynote, invited, and contributed speakers of the Systems Vision Science Symposium include:

14:00-14:30 Wu Li: „Corticocortical Feedback as a Unifying Mechanism for Visual Perception and Learning”

14:30-14:45 Daniel Anthes: „The illusory simplicity of the feedforward sweep”

14:45-15:00 Tatia Buidze: „Outcome history shapes implicit perceptual learning without awareness of the eye of origin“

15:00-15:15 Pinglei Bao: „Triple-N Dataset: Linking Single Neurons, Deep Neural Networks, and Natural Vision”

15:15-15:30 Lisa Kroell: „Predictive foveal processing in active vision“

15:30-15:45 Winrich Freiwald: „From objects to action symbols“

15:45-16:00 Virtual Coffee Break

16:00-16:15 Marlene Behrmann: „Understanding human vision through studying its breakdown“

16:15-16:30 Li Zhaoping: „Ventral stream feedback to V1 is focused on the central visual field: Anatomical evidence for the looking-and-seeing framework of vision“

16:30-16:45 Marisa Carrasco: „Dissecting Covert Attention: A Cortical Double Dissociation“

16:45-17:00 Bruno Rossion: „The cellular basis of the human face inversion effect“

17:00-17:15 Zygmunt Pizlo: „Mathematical foundations of Gestalt psychophysics.“

17:15-17:30 Shahin Nasr: „Mesoscale developmental rivalry in human extrastriate visual cortex“

17:30-18:00 Patrick Cavanagh: „Using Illusions and Art to Understand the Visual Brain“

 

The zoom link for joining the symposium will be sent to the registrants.
Please direct inquiries to svs.summerschool@tue.mpg.de.

 

Kind regards, 

Li Zhaoping
Maria Pavlovic
Vladislav Aksiotis
Kai Rothe

Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics
University of Tübingen