ISP 2007 - October 20-23, 2007 - Tokyo, Japan

Scientific Program

New! Final version of meeting schedule (in pdf, as of 07/10/09)

Poster presentation: maximum size of poster is 1132 (W) x 1640 (H) mm
Oral presentation: 15 min for talk, 3 min for discussion

Keynote speaker : Dr. Seiichiro Namba (Osaka University)
Click here for biography of Dr. Namba

Theme sessions

Roots of psychophysics: philosophical dimensions and historical backgrounds
Organized by Jiri Wackermann
Speakers:
J. Wackermann: Introduction
M. Heidelberger: Functional relations and causality in Fechner and Mach
E. Banks: Ernst Mach on the psychophysical relation
V. Sarris: Relational psychophysics -- Major messages derived from H. Ebbinghaus' and M. Wertheimer's research
J. Wackermann: Psychophysics, or algebra of pure experience?


Recent attempts and versatile applications of multi-dimensional psychophysics (tentative title) Organized by Jiro Gyoba and Tadasu Oyama
Speakers:
J. Gyoba: The first-order and the second-order pattern psychophysics
M. Lyons: Dimensional affect and expression in natural and mediated interaction
T. Oyama and H. Miyano: Multi-dimensional state space of perception
V. Sarris and P. Hauf: Relational psychophysics: Multidimensional aspects in comparative perception


Perceptual organization in the processing stream
Organized by Cees van Leeuwen and Sergei Gepshtein
S. Gepshtein, I. Tyukin, and M. Kubovy: Why does the proximity principle fail in perception of motion?
C. Nakatani and C. van Leeuwen: Grouping of target sequences for conscious report
H. Nakatani and C. van Leeuwen: EEG and eye-events relating to perceptual switching in the Necker cube
A. R. Nikolaev, S. Gepshtein, M. Kubovy, and C. van Leeuwen: Temporal structure of perceptual groupin: EEG analysis
C. van Leeuwen and G. Plomp: Priming Asymmetry in Visual Occlusion Patterns

Announcing Satellite Workshop

Perception and performance in real complex environments
Organized by Shuji Mori
Sponsored by Kyushu University COE program "Design of artificial environments on the basis of human sensibility" http://www.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/COE/index.html
Kyushu University (Fukuoka), Oct 25-26, 2007 Speakers: F. Mueller, T. Higuchi, N. Oi, B. Abernethy, L. T. Maloney, M. Sadakata
For detail, see program and pamphlet (in Japanese).

contact: fechnerday07@brain.is.kyushu-u.ac.jp