[Vision] CAPnet-CPS CAN‐ACN SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM 2016

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FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

– Oral Presentations and Posters –

 

CAPnet-CPS CAN‐ACN SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM

“Action & Perception: Cognition, Coding and Clinical Populations”

 

Date: Sunday May 29th, 2016, 9 am to 5 pm

 

Venue: Canadian Association for Neuroscience (CAN-CAN) Conference, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, Toronto, ON

 

PROGRAM DETAILS

This one-day satellite symposium focuses on perception and sensorimotor processes underlying the control of vision and movement in healthy and clinical populations.

 

It is jointly organized by the Canadian Action and Perception Network (CAPnet), a neuroscience research consortium that focuses on sensation, perception, and movement control, and by the Canadian Physiological Society (CPS).

 

The satellite is open to everyone and will highlight presentations from neuroscientists across Canada in three talk sessions, a poster session, and a keynote lecture given by the recipient of the 2016 CPS Sarrazin Lectureship (open for nominations until January 31, 2016; for more information see http://www.cpsscp.ca/sarrazin-award-lectureship; the 2015 Sarrazin Award recipient was Dr. Kathy Cullin, McGill).

 

Presentation format: talks (15 minutes, including discussion) and posters

 

We will have three themed talk sessions:

 

1) Coding and Computational Models of A & P: including neuroimaging, non-human primate and rodent models and computational models of perception and/or action. Chair: Dr. Julio Martinez (Western)

 

2) Cognition and Cognitive influences on A & P: including a breadth of approaches to higher level interactions or influences relating to perception and/or action. Chair: TBA

 

3) A & P in Clinical Populations: covering diverse clinical populations focusing on how such cohorts inform models of perception and/or action in typical non-clinical systems. Chair: TBA

 

Program Committee: Jennifer Steeves (York; chair), Miriam Spering (UBC), Susanne Ferber (U of T), Ashley Parr (Queen’s), Craig Chapman (Alberta)

 

More program details to follow.

 

 

HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT

A& P Satellite abstracts can be the same as, or different from, those submitted to the main CAN‐ACN meeting. The number of oral presentations is limited (approx. 20) and will be selected by the program committee based on the excellence and novelty of the abstract, fit of the topic with the satellite theme, and to maximize the number of labs presenting. A preference for poster or talk should be included in the abstract submission. Two trainee awards, one for best talk and one for best poster, will be presented at the end of the satellite.

 

Abstracts should be written in CAN‐ACN format (~250 words) and submitted online http://goo.gl/forms/NfVBnG2aW6

 

Closing date for abstract submission: February 29th, 2016

 

We will inform applicants of acceptance and presentation type (talk or poster), and post the final schedule, in early March 2016.

 

 

HOW TO REGISTER

Registration will be available through the CAN registration webpage shortly. Registration fee is $25 if combined with CAN meeting registration or $50 for those wishing to register for the satellite only (follow instructions on the satellite webpage (enter ‘coupon code’ CANsat1 into text box on page 1, select registration type ‘Satellite 1 ONLY’ at $50 rate).

Travel support for trainees is available through the Canadian Physiological Society (CPS); to be eligible, both student and supervisor have to be CPS members (http://www.cpsscp.ca/student-travel-fund).