The XIV Kanizsa Lecture & Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition
Trieste, Italy
October 26-27, 2006.
The Department of Psychology and the BRAIN Center for Neuroscience of the University of Trieste are pleased to invite you to the 14th Kanizsa Lecture. This year, the lecture will be given by Melvyn A. Goodale (University of Western Ontario) who will speak on "Visual Duplicity: Action without Perception in the Human Visual System". The lecture will be on Friday, October 27 at 4.00 pm in the Revoltella Museum Auditorium. The accompanying Symposium on Perception and Cognition will begin on Thursday, October 26 at 3 pm and it will include additional selected oral presentations (Thursday afternoon), an invited workshop (Friday morning), and an open poster session (Friday lunch time). The full program of the symposium, workshop, and Kanizsa Lecture is at http://www.psico.units.it/convegni/kanlect/2006/symposium.php3. For further information contact the Kanizsa Lecture organizer gerbino@univ.trieste.it.
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Special issue on "Integrative Approaches to Perception and Action"
All participants are invited to submit papers for a special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Papers on any aspect of the integration of perceptual systems with motor systems are welcome, including (but not limited to): (i) actions, illusions, and independence of visual modules; (ii) visuomotor priming; (iii) perception and action at near and far distances; (iv) vision-for-manipulation vs. vision-for-locomotion; (v) multimodal control of action; (vi) multimodal interactions between perception and action. All studies with neuropsychological implications (broadly conceived) will be considered. Papers will be refereed in accord with the standard procedures of Cognitive Neuropsychology. Guidelines for submitting manuscripts at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/pcgnauth.asp. Suggested maximum length around 10000 words. Deadline for submissions January 15, 2007. For additional information or presubmission inquries, contact the guest editors Nicola Bruno nick@psico.univ.trieste.it or P. Paolo Battaglini battagli@univ.trieste.it.
