The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition

Thursday 19 October, 2000

15:00

Justin Harris (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati –SISSA-, Trieste):
Topography of tactile learning

15:20

Alessio Toraldo, Roberto Sterzi, Gabriella Bottini (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati – SISSA-, Trieste; Laboratorio di Neuropsicologia, c/o Divisione di Neurologia II, Ospedale di Niguarda, Milano):
A dissociation between unilateral visual neglect and spatial distortion

15:40

Irina Harris (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati –SISSA-, Trieste):
Agnosia for object orientation

16:00

Luca Surian (U. Padova):
On the origins of causal knowledge

16:20

Mario Zanforlin (U. Padova):
Rotating ellipse and the missing spheroid another example against ‘likelihood principle

16:40

Frans A. J. Verstraten (U. Utrecht):
Local versus global motion processing:
speculations on the use of coherence thresholds as a measure of adaptation

17:00

Break

17:40

Corrado Caudek (U. Trieste):
Effects of feature-based attention on motion perception

18:00

Walter Gerbino, Cristina Zabai (U. Trieste):
Completion of intersecting volumes

18:20

Federica Sgorbissa, Walter Gerbino (U. Trieste):
Amodal completion: contours and surfaces

18:40

Carlo Fantoni, Walter Gerbino (U. Trieste):
A field model of visual interpolation

Friday 20 October, 2000

9:30

Jules Davidoff (Goldsmiths College, U. London):
Relatively little is needed for object identification: Evidence from neuropsychological investigations

9:50

Luca Tommasi (U.Padova):
Spatial cognition in the domestic chick

10:10

Nicola Bruno, Paolo Bernardis (U. Trieste):
Amodal compression in action space?

10:30

Paolo Bruno, Nicola Bruno (U. Trieste):
Tracking the barberpole: perception and action

10:50

William W. Stine (U. New Hampshire):
Discriminating Deformations with Kinetic Depth Effect Stimuli

11:10

Break

11:40

Marco Zorzi, Mariaelena Tagliabue, Carlo Umiltà (L. U. S. Raffaele, Milano; U. Padova):
Cross-modal remapping of spatial stimulus-response associations

12:00

Slobodan Markovic, Dejan Todorovic, Vasilije Gvozdenovic (U. Belgrade):
Phenomenal transparency and figural overlapping

12:20

Drazen Domijan (U. Rijeka):
Neural network and the problem of lightness anchoring

12:40

Alan L. Gilchrist (U. Rutgers, Newark):
Lightness, luminosity and relative area

13:00

Daniele Zavagno, Giovanni Caputo (U. Padova, U. Urbino):
Luminosity thresholds in the glare effect

13:20

Karel Kranda (F. U. Berlin):
Illusory contours as means of artistic expression

13:40

Lunch

16:00

20:30

Social Dinner

Saturday 21 October, 2000

10:00

Carlo Miniussi (IRCCS "San Giovanni di Dio - FBF", Brescia):
Watching where you look:visual processing of foveal stimuli is asymmetrically modulated by spatial attention

10:20

Raffaella Del Bello, Fauzia Mosca, Nicola Bruno (U. Trieste):
Contextual effects on amodal completion

10:40

Carlo Chiorri, Valentina Dolfi, Riccardo Luccio (U. Firenze):
Chiarezza, stratificazione e giunzioni a T

11:00

David Daris, Tiziano Agostini, Alessandra Galmonte (U. Trieste):
Il paradosso di Kanizsa rivisitato

11:20

Francesco Versace, Corrado Cavallero (U. Trieste):
Riduzione di sonno e orientamento dell'attenzione

11:40

Break

12:00

Cecilia Ieri, Riccardo Luccio (U. Firenze):
Statistiche intuitive e modelli non lineari

12:20

Rachele Fanari, Chiara De Candia, Lara Tagliapietra, Patrizia Tabossi (U. Trieste):
Indici fonotattici nella segmentazione in italiano

12:40

Sergio Di Sano, Maurizio Colla, Maria Silvia Barbieri (U. Trieste):
Informatività e adeguatezza nella comunicazione referenziale