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Monday, September 19, 2016   -  Wednesday, September 21, 2016


  • Ausgewählter Tab: Monday
  • Monday, September 19th - Audimax (H1 - Central Lecture Building)

    13:00

    Opening Remarks
    Mark Greenlee / Christoph Wagner

    Session1: Origins of Color (Moderator: Christoph Wagner)
    13:10 Phenomena of Color and the Quest for Mechanisms
    John S. Werner, University of California, Davis
    13:40 Cortical response to categorical color differences in prelinguistic infants
    Ichiro Kuriki, Tohoku University
    14:10 How the world became colored: the evolution of conscious color perception in primates
    Jay Neitz, University of Washington


    14:40


    Coffee break

    Session 2: Early Stage Mechanisms (Moderator: Mark Greenlee)
    15:10 A Comparative Look at Photopigments and Color Vision
    Gerald Jacobs, University of California, Santa Barbara
    15:40 Electrophysiological correlates of cone-opponent processing in the human retina
    Jan Kremers, University of Erlangen – Nuremberg
    16:10 Colour blindness and Coloured Filters: What Dalton saw about the attenuation of colour vision
    Justin Broackes, Brown University
    16:40 Final discussion


    17.00


    Reception (Audimax)


  • Tuesday
  • Tuesday, September 20th - Vielberth Building (H24)

    Session 3: Chromatic and Achromatic Pathways (Moderator: Herbert Jägle)

     

    09:00 Segregated transmission of achromatic and chromatic signals in the primate visual pathways
    Barry Lee, Max Planck Institute – Göttingen and State University of New York
    09:30 Seeing colors in achromatic stimuli: Grapheme-color synesthesia
    Gregor Volberg, University of Regensburg
    10:00 Multiple spatial systems for color vision
    Arthur Shapiro, American University, Washington DC


    10:30


    Coffee break

    Session 4: Discrimination and Hue (Moderator: Maka Malania)
    11:00 Seeing colours as different
    John D. Mollon, University of Cambridge
    11:30 Assessing the severity of colour vision loss - implications for occupational environments.
    John Barbur, City University London
    12:00 Discriminating colours in tetrachromatic space
    Gabriele Jordan, University of Newcastle


    12:30


    Lunch (OTH Mensa)

    Session 5: Complexities of Color (Moderator: Anton Beer)
    13:30 Blue and yellow in the world, the brain, and the dress
    Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno
    14:00 Distorted insights: from hue anomalies to colour mechanisms
    Andrew Stockman, University College London
    14:30 The neural basis of color "filling-in" and its attentional modulation
    Peter Tse, Dartmouth College


    15:00


    Coffee break

    Session 6: Color Constancy (Moderator: Alf Zimmer )
    15:30 Why Colour Constancy Needs More Than Colour
    David Foster, University of Manchester
    16:00 Color perception and Memory - The impact of color on our experience and behavior
    Axel Buether, Bergische University Wuppertal
    16:30 Seeing (and Feeling) the Light
    Anya Hurlbert, University of Newcastle
    17:00 Final discussion


    17:15


    Poster Session Vielberth Foyer (in front of H24)


    19:30


    Conference Dinner (Andreasstadel)


  • Wednesday
  • Wednesday, September 21st - Vielberth Building (H24)

    Session 7: Cortical Mechanisms (Moderator: Patrick Cavanagh)

     

    09:00 Comparing color systems in monkeys and humans
    Bevil Conway, Wellesley College
    09:30 Colour vision across the life span: perception, brain imaging and individual differences
    Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool
    10:00 Colours in the human brain: of movies, the binding problem, constancy, and predictive coding
    Andreas Bartels, University of Tübingen


    10:30


    Coffee break

    Session 8: Color in Art and Culture (Moderator: John S. Werner)
    11:00 "Interaction of Color" – Concepts of Seeing Colors in Modern Art
    Christoph Wagner, University of Regensburg
    11:30 Color – from Means of Representation to Object of Representation
    Matthias Bleyl, Weissensee School of Art, Berlin
    12:00 The Colours of Paradise and its Discontents
    Karl Schawelka, Bauhaus University, Weimar


    12:30


    Lunch (OTH Mensa)

     

    Ground Transport to Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof)
    Airportliner shuttle to Munich Airport.
    All departing delegates should bring their bags with them to the venue. The shuttle to the Airport will leave from the Vielberth Hall.

     



Monday

Monday, September 19th - Audimax (H1 - Central Lecture Building)

13:00

Opening Remarks
Mark Greenlee / Christoph Wagner

Session1: Origins of Color (Moderator: Christoph Wagner)
13:10 Phenomena of Color and the Quest for Mechanisms
John S. Werner, University of California, Davis
13:40 Cortical response to categorical color differences in prelinguistic infants
Ichiro Kuriki, Tohoku University
14:10 How the world became colored: the evolution of conscious color perception in primates
Jay Neitz, University of Washington


14:40


Coffee break

Session 2: Early Stage Mechanisms (Moderator: Mark Greenlee)
15:10 A Comparative Look at Photopigments and Color Vision
Gerald Jacobs, University of California, Santa Barbara
15:40 Electrophysiological correlates of cone-opponent processing in the human retina
Jan Kremers, University of Erlangen – Nuremberg
16:10 Colour blindness and Coloured Filters: What Dalton saw about the attenuation of colour vision
Justin Broackes, Brown University
16:40 Final discussion


17.00


Reception (Audimax)


Tuesday

Wednesday


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  2. Institut für Psychologie

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