Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: The Nexus Between Eye Movements and Cognitive Neuroscience
Discussion Leader: David Zee (Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:55 pm - 8:25 pm
Eileen Kowler (Rutgers University, USA)
"Show Me, Don't Tell Me: The Role of Cues, Past Experience, and Beliefs in the Generation of Anticipatory Eye Movements"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
Stephen Lisberger (Duke University, USA)
"Implementation of Bayesian Behavior in the Neural Circuits for Pursuit Eye Movements"
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Saccades and Visual Cognition
Discussion Leader: Robert Wurtz (National Eye Institute, NIH, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:20 am - 9:50 am
Michael Goldberg (Columbia University, USA)
"Presto and Largo: Two Modes of Spatial Processing in the Parietal Cortex"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Okihide Hikosaka (National Eye Institute, NIH, USA)
"Saccade for Object Choice Based on Emotional History and Context"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Michele Basso (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"The Role of the Basal Ganglia-Superior Colliculus Circuit in Decision Making"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:10 pm
Matthew Smith (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
"Population Codes for Eye Movements in the Frontal Eye Fields"
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Marisa Carrasco (New York University, USA) and Eileen Kowler (Rutgers University, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Guidance of Eye Movements by Value and Reward
Discussion Leader: Terrence Stanford (Wake Forest School of Medicine, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Shinsuke Shimojo (California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Gaze and Pupil both Reflect and Affect Visual Preference"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Alexander Schutz (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
"Modulation of Eye Movements by Reward and Choices"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Sanjay Manohar (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Motivation and the Energization of Movement"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
Mati Joshua (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Vigor and Choice in the Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement System"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Transition from Response Time to Saccade
Discussion Leader: Martin Pare (Queen's University, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
Roozbeh Kiani (New York University, USA)
"Reaction Time Tasks and Transition from Accumulation of Evidence to Response Initiation"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
Mathieu Servant (Vanderbilt University, USA)
"Models Linking Cognitive and Neural Levels of Response Time to Saccades"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Yoshikazu Shinoda (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
"Neural Circuits for Generation of Horizontal and Vertical Saccades"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Lance Optican (National Eye Institute, NIH, USA)
"What Stops a Saccade?"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Eye Movements and Social Cognition
Discussion Leader: Michael Platt (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Miguel Eckstein (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
"Rapidly Looking at Faces: A Sensory Optimization Theory"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Kari Hoffman (Vanderbilt University, USA / York University, Canada)
"Effects of Familiarity on Face and Scene Scanning in Primates"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Frederick Shic (Seattle Children's Research Institute / University of Washington, USA)
"Eye Tracking as an Autism Biomarker: Re-Examining Assumptions from Algorithms to Application"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
Kimberly Meier (University of British Columbia, Canada)
"Global Motion Discrimination and Fixation Stability in Amblyopia"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Eye Movements and Attention
Discussion Leader: Marisa Carrasco (New York University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
Martina Poletti (Boston University, USA)
"An Eye for Detail: Fine Scale Control of Eye Movements and Attention"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
James Bisley (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"How Attentional Priority in Saccade Planning May Allow LIP to Play a Role in Object Recognition"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University, USA)
"Understanding Saccades as Information Sampling Actions"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Jan Theeuwes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"The Effects of Reward and Punishment on Attention and Oculomotor Control"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Reading and Scene Perception
Discussion Leader: Reinhold Kliegl (University of Potsdam, Germany)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Jay Edelman (The City College of New York, USA)
"Local and Global Spatial References for Guiding Saccades to Remembered Locations in Crowded Visual Scenes"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Monica Castelhano (Queen's University, Canada)
"Attentional Capture in Real-World Scenes: Using Surface Guidance Framework to Explore Attentional Mechanisms During Search"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 8:55 pm
Antje Nuthmann (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
"Extrafoveal Attentional Capture by Object Semantics in Real-World Scenes: The Jury Is Still Out"
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Frederic Crevecoeur (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
"A Sensorimotor Origin of Saccadic Suppression"
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Pursuit of Visual Objects: From Motion Perception to Cognition
Discussion Leader: Philippe Lefevre (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:40 am
Jean-Jacques Orban de Xivry (KU Leuven, Belgium)
"What Is the Nature of the Extra-Retinal Signals Governing Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements?"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:20 am
Anna Montagnini (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, France)
"Human Visual Tracking of Moving Objects, Illusions, and Probabilistic Guesses"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Coffee Break
10:50 am - 11:20 am
Leslie Osborne (University of Chicago, USA)
"Efficient Sensory Coding Underlies Pursuit Accuracy"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Suryadeep Dash (Western University, Canada)
"Continuous Updating of Visuospatial Working Memory in Superior Colliculus During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Gaze Stabilization and the Skeletomotor System
Discussion Leader: Kathleen Cullen (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 7:55 pm
Stefan Glasauer (Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany)
"Mutual Interaction Between Eye and Body Movements During Gaze Stabilization"
7:55 pm - 8:05 pm
Discussion
8:05 pm - 8:20 pm
Aasef Shaikh (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
"Tale of Neural Integrator: From Nystagmus to Dystonia"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Barry Seemungal (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Vestibular Perceptuo-Reflex Coupling in Healthy Subjects and Neurological Patients"
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:10 pm
Andrea Green (University of Montreal, Canada)
"Vestibular Contributions to Reaching During Body Motion"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm
General Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure