“Lá Fechner 2009” An 25ú Cruinniú de Chumann Idirnáisiúnta na Sícifisice.
* translations at the bottom of the page.Note: The following is a provisional schedule of events and is subject to change.
Wednesday, 21st October
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14:00 - 17:00 | Registration Opens |
17:00 - 17:15 | Welcome and Introduction to the Meeting - Fáilte go Gaillimh agus Réamhrá don Chruinniú |
17:30 - 19:30 |
Seisiún Iomlánach*: Sícifisic le 25 bliain (On the last 25 years in psychophysics) Convener: Bob Teghtsoonian |
Lorraine Allan Contingency assessment and the placebo effect, what do they have in Common? |
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Birgitta Berglund Interdisciplinary Recognition of Psychophysics became Measuring the Impossible |
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Hannes Eisler Retrospective, and prospective considerations on psychophysical measurement emanating from time perception studies |
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Steven Link The influence of stochastic processes on changes in our understanding of psychophysical phenomena |
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Howard Moskowitz How psychophysics changed the food industry |
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Helen Ross Measuring size constancy and the moon illusion |
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Bruce Schneider Discrimination, context and sensory representation |
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Bob Teghtsoonian Measuring Perceived Magnitude: Is It Lawful? |
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Mary Florentine Advancements In Psychophysics Lead To A New Understanding Of Loudness In Normal Hearing And Hearing Loss |
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19:30 - Late. | Buffet and wine reception Courtesy of the School of Psychology at NUI Galway and the American Psychological Association |
Thursday, 22nd October
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08:30 - 11:00 |
Seisiún Iomlánach 1: Comparáid: Próiseas agus Léiriúchán (Comparison: Processes and Representation) Convener: William M. Petrusic |
Steven R. Carroll and William Petrusic Extending two-alternative forced-choice decision making models to the n-alternative case |
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Craig Leth-Steensen Working memory resource usage in symbolic comparison |
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William M. Petrusic On the time to subtract: Donders revisited |
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Samuel Shaki and Craig Leth-Steensen Instruction-dependent SNARC for comparisons of linearly ordered symbolic stimuli |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 - 12:15 |
Spreagchainteoir* an Earraigh Eugene Galanter Psychophysics, Psychometrics, and Psychological Metrology Discussant: Birgitta Berglund |
12:15 - 13:30 |
Cainteanna Saora* Discussant: Thomas Lachmann |
David Tolhurst with M.P.S. To, P.G. Lovell and T. Troscianko Magnitude ratings for perceived changes in photographs of natural scenes may be linearly proportional to differences in neuronal firing rates |
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Érico Artioli Firmino with José Lino Oliveira Bueno and Emmanuel Bigand Effects of close and distant reverse tonal pathways in musical stimuli on retrospective time reproductions |
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Dražen Domijan A Neural Model for Detection of Temporal Structure |
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13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:45 |
Seisiún Iomlánach 2: Sícifisic sotharlainne versus "Lebenswelten": Sícifisic sa saol mór (Lab worlds versus ‘Lebenswelten’: Psychophysics of lived experience) Conveners: J. Scott Jordan and Jirí Wackermann |
J. Scott Jordan with Charles Coey and Kiriakos Tsippaoutis When where things are depends on what you’re doing: Stimulus control reverses implied-friction effects in spatial perception |
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Kevin Shockley Multimodal specification and perceptual equivalence: Foray into the global array |
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Nuno De Sá Teixeira Deriving a psychophysical law for velocity from the motor localization of a moving target |
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Jirí Wackermann Anthropological turn: a missed chance for psychophysics? |
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16:45 - 17:15 | Coffee Break |
17:15 - 18:00 |
Spreagchainteoir* an tSamhraidh Steven Link Psychophysics of Facial Cognition Discussant: Tim Hubbard |
18:00 - 19:30 | Seisiún Póstaeirí Treoraithe* 1 |
Friday, 23rd October
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08:30 - 11:00 |
Seisiún Iomlánach 3: Dul chun cinn i sícifisic chéadfach ilmhódach (Advances in multi-modal sensory psychophysics) Convener: Jim Townsend Discussant: Danny Algom |
Nick Altieri An analysis of perceptual dependencies in audiovisual speech perception: a new approach |
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Thomas James Assessing multisensory integration with additive-factors and functional MRI |
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Aina Puce Human brain responses to non-verbal audiovisual dynamic stimuli |
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Mark Wallace Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studying Multisensory Processes: Bridging from Single Units to Perception |
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11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 - 12:15 |
Spreagchainteoir* an Fhómhair Jim Townsend Toward a New Psychophysics based on Geometry and Stochastic Systems Theory Discussant: J. Scott Jordan |
12:15 - 13:30 |
Cainteanna Saora Discussant: Dražen Domijan |
Timothy L. Hubbard with Jon R. Courtney Cross-Modal Influences on Representational Momentum and Representational Gravity |
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Denis O'Hora TBA |
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Pearl S. Guterman with Robert S. Allison, and Hugh McCague The application of circular statistics to psychophysical research |
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13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:30 |
Seisiún Iomlánach 4: Sícifisic agus Daonraí Speisialta (Psychophysics and Special Populations) Convener: Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott |
Eugenie Dalimier with C. Dainty and R. Navarro Measuring and modelling the effects of ocular aberrations on visual acuity |
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Stanislava Antonijevic-Elliott Noise Exclusion in Visual and Auditory Modalities in Children with Language Disorder |
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Lorraine G. Allan with Samuel D. Hannah and Shepard Siegel Signal Detection, Aging, and Contingency Assessment |
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Heike Schmidt with John MacFarland, Mohamed Ahmed, Colm McDonald and Mark A. Elliott Investigating the Perception of Simultaneity in Psychosis: a Comparison of First-Episode Psychosis and Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia Patients with Healthy Controls |
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16:30 - 16:45 | Coffee Break |
16:45 - 17:30 |
Spreagchainteoir* an Gheimhridh David Robinson Psychological differences associated with individual differences in the physical properties of thalamocortical oscillators Discussant: Jiri Wackermann |
17:30 - 19:00 | Seisiún Póstaeirí Treoraithe 2 |
19:00 | ISP Business Meeting |
Saturday, 24th October
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08:30 - 11:05 |
Cainteanna Saora Discussant: Denis O'Hora |
Martin Arvidsson, with Birgitta Berglund, Lisa Skedung, Maiju Aikala, Katrin Danerlöv, John Kettle and Mark Rutland Multidimensional Psychophysics: Surface Feel of Printing Paper as a Function of Physical Properties |
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Birgitta Berglund with L. Zheng, P. Wargocki, H.N. Knudsen and B. Müller (presented by L. Zheng) Measuring Odor Quality of Building Materials in an Odor Space |
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John S. Monahan The Effects of Incongruent Probability and Stimulus-response Compatibility on Sequential Effects |
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Tsuyoshi Kuroda with Yoshitaka Nakajima The subjective continuity of frequency-glide tones in the gap transfer illusion |
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Giovanni Battista Rossi An interdisciplinary probabilistic theory of measurement |
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Shuji Mori with Takuro Shimada Psychophysical study of expertise perception of rugby players facing the opponent's deceptive movement |
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11:05 - 11:30 | Coffee Break |
11:30 - 12:15 |
Caint speisialta ar fheidhmiú na sícifisice (Special talk on the application of psychophysics) Kevin Greaney Psychophysical and Psychometric Knowledge at Work Discussant: Gene Galanter |
12:15 - 13:30 |
Cainteanna Saora Discussant: Marco Tommasi |
Galina V. Paramei with David L. Bimler and Slawomir J. Skwarek Comparing accuracy rates and reaction times in a same / different task with facial expressions |
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Dan Zakay with Dida Fleisig Overconfidence paradox in perceptual tasks |
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Daniel Oberfeld The temporal weighting of the loudness of time-varying sounds reflects both sensory and cognitive processes |
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13:30 - 14:30 | Lunch |
14:30 - 16:45 |
Cainteanna Saora Discussant: Shuji Mori |
Setu Havanur with Glyn Humphreys & Harriet Allen Grouping by configuration influences search |
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Helen Ross with Martha Teghtsoonian The Curious Case of Luther Trant and Weber’s Law |
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Lawrence Ward Psychophysical scaling: The elusive consensus |
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Anne Giersch with Laurence Lalanne and Mitsouko van Assche Comparing time onsets: does it require time to mentally group items? A question derived from results in patients with schizophrenia |
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16:45 - 17:05 | Coffee Break |
17:05 - 17:50 |
25th Anniversary Speaker Hans Geissler On the value of constancy, the constancy of values, and the singular role of time in fundamental psychophysical laws Discussant: Mark A. Elliott |
17:50 - 19:20 | Seisiún Póstaeirí Treoraithe 3 |
21:00 - Late. | Conference dinner at the Glenlo Abbey - Clabhsúr na comhdhála agus slán abhaile! |
Guided Poster Session 1
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Lucia Zanuttini, Olga Daneyko & Daniele Zavagno | Illusory expansion of area and apparent lightness |
Ricardo A. Viegas, Armando M. Oliveira, & Ana Garriga-Trillo | A Relative Ratio Model For The Integration Of Gains And Losses In A Mixed Regular Roulette-type Game |
Marco Tommasi | No frequency effect when judging contrast |
Simon Grondin | Temporal processing, range effect and Weber fraction |
Thomas Schinauer & Thomas Lachmann | Order Preferences as a Function of Size and Orientation of the Display |
Thomas Lachmann & Cees van Leeuwen | Differentiation of holistic processing in the time course of letter recognition |
Anna D. Eisler, Hannes Eisler & Shuji Mori | Psychological time in Japanese and Swedish males: A cross-cultural comparison |
Jason S. Chan, Simon Dobbyn, Paul McDonald, Henry J. Rice, Carol O’Sullivan & Fiona N. Newell | Aurally aided visual search in depth using ‘real’ and ‘virtual’ crowds |
Massidda, Spoto, Bastianelli, Actis-Grosso & Vidotto | The Poggendorff illusion: the presence of anomalous figure ingenerating the effect |
Otto MacLin, Kim MacLin & Dwight Peterson | Adaption to racial content of emergent race faces: Gradient shift or peak shift? |
Tetsunoshin Fujii., Fumiyo Takahashi. & Yasuhiro Kawabata | Association between facial color and recognition by means of affective words and face images |
Zapasnik M. & Burnat K. | Detection of velocity and luminance in random dot pattern as a measure of early binocular deprivation outcome |
Anna Lindqvist, Anders Höglund & Birgitta Berglund | The odor perception of three degradation products from polyamide 6.6 |
Tetsu Miyaoka | Fine-surface-texture discrimination by indirect touch |
Charalampos Karypidis | What d' scores can hide and what decision space representations can reveal: an account on perceptual asymmetries in vowel-like perception |
Armando Oliveira, Nuno Teixeira, Ricardo Viegas, Miguel Oliveira, Isabel Fonseca, Magda Jordão, Cindy Carvalho, Mikael Mendes, Fátima Simões & Eduardo Santos | Imputations of missing information to incomplete facial expressions: A study with functional measurement |
Veseljka Rebic, Mia Šetic & Dražen Domijan | Brightness estimation in a neural network model with presynaptic inhibition |
Priyanka Srivastava & Narayanan Srinivasan | Shifting Attention across Different Spatial Scales |
Ven Ananda Mitra Shraman | Buddhist Meditation Approach : Nama and Rupa (Mind and Body) |
Guided Poster Session 2
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Baud-bovy Gabriel & Lisa Scocchia | Is the mass invariant? Effects of movement amplitude and duration |
Joel A. Lucas & William M. Petrusic | SNARC effects for positive and negative numbers representing temperature |
Paula Carolina Barboni Dantas Nascimento & Sebastião de Sousa Almeida | Evaluation of children’s food preferences by forced choice method |
David McGovern, Sarah Hancock & Jonathan W. Peirce | Tuning and binding in compound adaptation |
Mats P. Englund, Åke Hellström & Vladimir Calderon | Semantics is an important factor behind the goodness-level dependant word-order effect |
Tonya S. Pixton, Mats P. Englund & Åke Hellström | Detectability and perceived degree of facial happiness, angriness, and emotion: the role of the particular stimuli |
Francisco Carlos Nather, José Lino Oliveira Bueno & Emmanuel Bigand | Time estimation and eye-tracking movement in human body static images |
Akira Iwabuchi | Japan's favourable reception of Gustav Fechner's view of life and death |
Werner Ehm & Jürgen Kornmeier | Detecting frequency-specific phase synchrony in brain electrical oscillations |
Yoshitaka Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Kuroda & Tomoko Uehara | Illusory unification of simultaneous temporal gaps of glide tones that are apart from each other in frequency |
Hautus, M.J., Shepherd, D., & Peng, M. | The effect of a reminder stimulus on the decision strategy adopted in the two-alternative forced-choice procedure |
Geoffrey R. Patching, Mats P. Englund & Åke Hellström | Time-order effects in timed brightness and size discrimination of paired visual stimuli: Relations to elementary processing capacity |
Joseph Glicksohn, Aviva Berkovich Ohana, Tal Balaban Dotan, Abraham Goldstein & Opher Donchin | Time Production and Peak Alpha Frequency: The Search Continues |
Sergio C. Masin | The (Weber’s) law that never was |
Margarida R. Sobral & Armando M. Oliveira | Differences between Frontotemporal dementia and probable AD patients regarding the discrimination of facially conveyed emotions: a study with Signal Detection Theory |
Diego Dall’Alba, Marco Vicentini & Debora Botturi | PsychoGear, Yet another Psychophysics Library |
Jirí Wackermann & Nina Meyer-Blankenburg | Differential Effect Of Stimulus Brightness In Visual Duration Discrimination |
Guided Poster Session 3
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Marco Vicentini, Diego Dall’Alba & Debora Botturi | Stopping Rule Determination for Green’s Maximum-Likelihood Adaptive Procedure with PsychoGear Library |
Fumiyo Takahashi & Yasuhiro Kawabata | Association between colors and emotions by means of words and face icons |
Waldemar Galante Junior, Ester da Silva & José Aparecido da Silva | A comparison between the visual analogue and Borg’s CR10 scales for perceived exertion |
Rosana Maria Tristão & Fernando O. de Carvalho | Use of the visual habituation paradigm to investigate speech perception in prematures and Down syndrome infants |
Sarah Berthaud & Stanislava Antonijevic | Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language |
Annalisa Setti, Kate E. Burke, RoseAnne Kenny & Fiona N. Newell | Susceptibility to an audio-visual speech illusion in older and younger adults |
Emi Hasuo, Yukiko Hirose & Yoshitaka Nakajima | Effects of sound marker durations on the perception of two neighbouring empty time intervals |
José Lino Oliveira Bueno & Lézio Soares Bueno Júnior | Temporal bisection and conditional discrimination in rats |
Timothy L. Hubbard & Martina Lange | Prior Probabilities and Representational Momentum |
Friedrich Müller & Matthias Metz | Olfactory threshold estimations obtained by a three-alternative procedure and by an adaptive staircase procedure - a comparison of methods |
Friedrich Müller & Sonja Giesemann | Range effects in hedonic evaluation of olfactory stimuli |
Kazuo Ueda, Yoshitaka Nakajima & Tomoya Araki | An acoustic language universal: A perceptual experiment employing noise-vocoded speech |
Job Schepens, Bastiaan du Pau, Alex Brandmeyer & Makiko Sadakata | Synchronization with beats in different modalities and tempi |
Brian Bargery & Mark A. Elliott | Sensorimotor adaptation in visual perception |
Daniel Shepherd with Michael J. Hautus & Miriam Stocks | Assessing The Single Interval Adjustent Matrix Yes-No Task |
* Seisiún Iomlánach – Plenary Session
* Cainteanna Saora – Free Talks
* Spreagchainteoir – Keynote Speaker
* Seisiún Póstaeirí Treoraithe – Guided Poster Session