Theories of Object Perception

Object perception is one of our most fundamental yet least-understood cognitive capacities. The goal of this workshop (co-organized by James Elder and Kevin Lande) is to bring together researchers to bridge biological, computational, and philosophical approaches to object perception.

The event will be streamed on Zoom (see attached program for schedule and details).

Speakers include

• Gunnar Schmidtmann (University of Plymouth)
• Phil Kellman (UCLA)
• Nick Baker (Loyola University)
• Kevin Lande (York University)
• Sami Yousif (The Ohio State University)
• Vlad Ayzenberg (Temple University)
• Dirk Bernhardt-Walther (University of Toronto)
• Peter Kohler (York University)
• Tim Oleskiw (University of Regina)
• James Elder (York University)
• Anitha Pasupathy (University of Washington)
• Kohitij Kar (York University)

We will also have two friendly debates.

• On the importance of boundaries vs. regions for object perception (with opposing positions led by Nick Baker and Vlad Ayzenberg)
• On the importance of analytical vs. deep learning models (with opposing teams positions led by Anitha Pasupathy and Kohitij Kar).