July 2017 Nathan van der Stoep has been awarded an NWO Veni grant (€ 250 000) for his research project ‘Restoring sensory unity: Unifying spatial vision and hearing through multisensory recalibration’.

July 2017 Ben Harvey paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: “Comparing parietal quantity-processing mechanisms between human and macaque”. See http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661317301547 And Martin Everaert- Johan Bolhuis: “What is Language and How Could it Have Evolved?” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661317301080    

Eli Brenner initiated as president Vision Science society, see http://www.visionsciences.org/board/

May 2017 – Ben Harvey has been awarded a Vidi personal-innovation grant (€ 800 000) from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

Manos Tsakiris (University of London, UK) – Interoception: From homeostasis to self-awareness

Barbara Sahakian (University of Cambridge, UK) – Translational neuroscience: Early detection and improving cognition in neuropsychiatric disorders

The Vision Sciences Society is Honored to Present Jan J. Koenderink with the 2017 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science http://www.visionsciences.org/2017-ken-nakayama-medal/

Martin Rolfs (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)  – Attention in active vision

Dora Angelaki (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA) – A neural model of gravity and its role in action, perception and spatial orientation

  POSTER with All Helmholtz Lectures 2016-17