The Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition

Thursday afternoon, 25 October, 2001
Room 106

15:00

Justin Harris (ISAS):
The role of primary somatosensory cortex in tactile working memory

15:20

Vasilije Gvozdenovic (U. Belgrade):
Figure-ground segregation: temporal effects

15:40

Slobodan Marcovic (U. Belgrade):
Amodal completion in visual occlusion: effect on figure orientation

16:00

Nicola Bruno, Paolo Bernardis (U. Trieste):
Kanizsa's compression illusion and the visual control of pointing

16:20

Dejan Lalovic (U. Belgrade):
Grammatical priming facilitates word naming (after all)

16:40

Mark Elliot (U. Leipzig):
The temporal characteristics of object-feature priming

17:00

Break

17:20

Drazen Domijan (U. Rijeka):
A neural network for surface labeling and selection

17:40

Adrienne Fairhall (Princeton U.):
Perception in the presence of noise

18:00

Ehsan Arabzadeh (School of Intelligent Systems, Tehran):
Munker-White-like illusions without T-junctions

18:20

Marco Sambin (U. Padova):
Hidden figures in the paintings of El Greco

18:40

Osvaldo da Pos (U. Padova):
On the nature of colours: the role of pseudo colours

19:00

Walter Gerbino (U. Trieste):
Achromatic contrast and chromatic assimilation in the Munker-White effect

Friday morning, 26 October, 2001
Room 106

9:00

David Melcher (Rutgers U.):
Visual scene memory and the guidance og eye movements

9:20

David Burr (U. Firenze):
"Speedlines" help discrimination of motion direction

9:40

Anja Poljansek (U. Ljubljana):
Motion direction affects the acceleration perception

10:00

Stefano Baldassi, Preeti Verghese (Smith Kettlewell Institute, S. Francisco):
Integration rules in feature identification search tasks

10:20

Giovanni Bruno Vicario, Yoshie Kiritani, Eraldo Nicotra (U. Udine, Chiba U., U. Padova):
Four criteria in judging tunnel effect

10:40

Yoshie Kiritani, Giovanni Bruno Vicario (Chiba U., U. Udine):
Tunnel effect with a moving tunnel

10:50

Break

11:00

Barbara Gillam (U. New South Wales):
The nature of stereo mechanisms for unpaired regions

11:20

David Alais, David Burr (C.N.R. Pisa, U. Firenze):
Auditory analog of the visual flash-lag effect

11:40

Frans Verstraten (U. Utrecht):
Functional imaging and neurophysiology of visual problem solving

12:00

Irina Harris (U. Sidney):
Parietal lobe contributions to mental rotation

12:20

William W. Stine (U. New Hampshire):
The Venetian blind effect

12:40

Marco Bertamini, Fauzia Mosca (U. Liverpool, U. Trieste):
The shape of holes is different from the shape of objects with same shape

13:00

Beau Lotto (UCL):
Color: perceiving the functional meaning of spectral stimuli

13:20

Lunch

Friday afternoon, 26 October, 2001

16:00

20:30

Social Dinner

Saturday morning, 27 October, 2001
Room 106

9:00

Federica Sgorbissa, Walter Gerbino, Carlo Fantoni (U. Trieste):
Orientation modulates priming effects on amodal completion

9:20

Nadia Gamboz (U. Trieste):
A critical analysis of age-related difference in the directed forgetting paradigm

9:40

Anna Montagnini (ISAS):
A computational approach for object and face processing

10:00

Riccardo Luccio, S. Passeri (U. Firenze):
Amodal completion in moving patterns

10:20

Carlo Chiorri, Simone Gori (U. Firenze):
Dynamic evolution of amodal completion

10:40

Lucia Lumbelli (U. Trieste):
Audiovisual versus written text comprehension: the medium effect

11:00

Break

11:20

Carlo Fantoni, Walter Gerbino, Federica Sgorbissa (U. Trieste):
How contextual variations affect the shape of interpolated contours: a test of different models

11:40

Cecilia Ieri, Riccardo Luccio, Caterina Primi, E. Salvadori (U. Firenze):
La percezione del rischio nel ragionamento medico

12:00

Kinou Wolf, Rachele Fanari, Patrizia Tabossi (U. Trieste):
Semantic decomposition and syntactic flexibility in idiom recognition (in italian)

12:20

Laura Iozzi (U. Trieste):
Significati privati nella comunicazione di bambini in età prescolare

12:40

Francesco Versace, Davide Jugovac, Laura Miccoli, Corrado Cavallero (U. Trieste):
Un compito per valutare gli effetti della riduzione di sonno a carico della attenzione spaziale