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👁🧠🧪 Optica Fall Vision Meeting: Oct 2-5, 2025 at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN is in the bag. See you next year!
And that’s a wrap for @optica.org's #OpticaFVM 2025. Thank you all for joining us and making it such a vibrant meeting! Below are some impressions, courtesy of Arathy Kartha.
October 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉

Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization"

Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"
October 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
👁️🔬 Excited to welcome Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) as the 2025 Boynton Lecturer at Optica FVM!
A pioneer in adaptive optics and retinal imaging, his work has reshaped how we see the eye—and how the eye sees.

🎤 Join us Oct 2–5 at UMN
🔗 www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
🔥 We’re thrilled to announce that adaptive optics trailblazer Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) is the 2025 Boynton Award recipient! 🎉 His AOSLO let us image, stimulate, and track single photoreceptors 🧠👁️

He’ll give the Boynton Lecture at #OpticaFVM, Oct 2–5 @ Univ. Minnesota. Save the date!
May 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Mark your calendars! 👁️🧠🧪

This year's @optica.org Fall Vision Meeting is heading to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN on Oct 3-5, 2025!

#VisionScience #VisionResearch #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #ophthalmology #AcademicSky
March 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Where #VisionScience reaches new heights,
From low vision care to brain scan insights.
A home for breakthroughs and autumn’s glow,
Can you guess where this year’s conference will go?

👁️🧠🧪
January 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🌈 Invited Session: The Visual Ecology of Colour & Light

Learn how daily light shifts, natural color statistics & animal signals shape our perception

Annette Allen (Manchester)
Jenny M. Bosten (Sussex)
Karl R. Gegenfurtner (Giessen)
Julie Harris (St Andrews)

#OpticaFVM2024
November 22, 2024 at 8:52 AM
🤖🔍 Invited Session: ML/AI in Retinal Diagnostics

Learn how AI is transforming retinal imaging & diagnostics and discuss the broader ethical ramifications of this technology

Adam Dubis (Utah)
Anya Hurlbert (Newcastle)
Marinko Sarunic (UCL)
Jithin Yohannan (JHU)

#OpticaFVM2024
November 22, 2024 at 8:52 AM
🧑‍🦯 Invited Session: Visual Prosthetics

Learn about new implants, AI-driven designs, and clinical trials paving the way for next-gen visual prosthetics:

Dan Adams (Neuralink)
Xing Chen (Pitt)
Eduardo Fernández (UMH)
Yağmur Güçlütürk (Radboud)

#OpticaFVM2024
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
👁️ Invited Session: Focusing on the Human Fovea

Explore how high-res ophthalmoscopy, neuroimaging & behavioral studies reveal the structure of our foveal pathways

Heidi Baseler (York)
Wolf Harmening (Bonn)
Martina Poletti (Rochester)
Alexander Schütz (Marburg)

#OpticaFVM2024
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
FVM'24 registration is now open! Don't miss out on this premier #VisionScience event:

🎉Thu, Oct 3: Welcome Reception
👁️Fri, Oct 4: Human Fovea & Visual Prosthetics
🤖Sat, Oct 5: AI in Retinal Diagnostics
🌈Sun, Oct 6: Colour & Light...
November 22, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Last chance to submit an abstract to this year’s @OpticaPubsGroup Fall Vision Meeting!

Abstract submission closes tomorrow (no deadline extension):
https://www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/submit-an-abstract

#Vision #VisionResearch #Cognition #Perception #Neuroscience
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Please RT: There is still time to submit an abstract to the @OpticaPubsGroup Fall Vision Meeting!

https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/submit-an-abstract

#VisionScience #Neuroscience
#AcademicTwitter #NeuroTwitter
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Join us Oct 3-6 in majestic York, UK! Abstract submission is now open and will close on August 9.

More details at https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org
November 22, 2024 at 8:58 AM
SEATTLE: We're looking for volunteers to help out at Fall Vision Meeting this year. Maybe that's you?

http://tinyurl.com/volunteerFVM

No specific expertise is necessary and you don't have to be a vision scientist yourself! (just ok being around a bunch of dorky vision scientists)
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
The 2023 Fall Vision Meeting program is out! ⏩ http://opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2023-meeting/program

Registration is OPEN NOW. Register soon - fees increase starting Sept 21.
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
📢📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Submit your abstracts to the 2023 Fall Vision Meeting by AUGUST 10.

Registration is open now. Join us in Seattle for a great meeting - the weather's even still pretty OK here in early Oct 😉
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Rachel Wong is our 2023 Boynton lecturer! Rachel’s diversity of approaches has provided an unprecedented view of how the highly specific synaptic connectivity that subserves retinal function is established, maintained, and how it reacts to damage.

Join us - abstracts by 8/1!
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
We're pleased to be honoring Andrew Beau Watson as our Tillyer lecturer - renowned expert in how we can apply principles of vision science to technologies, applications, devices and displays.

Join us & present your own work - abstracts by 8/1!
November 22, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Binocular vision shapes our ability to perceive and act on our environment, guiding our interactions with the objects around us. We'll explore the role of binocularity in our interactions with the world -- under typical and atypical visual conditions.

Join us - abstracts by 8/1!
November 22, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Extended reality (XR) merges lab-controlled stimuli with real-world environments, enhancing visual experiences. This session explores XR's applications in depth perception, gaze tracking, and assistive technology.

Join us - abstracts by 8/1!
November 22, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Color perception is well-studied in primates, but other animals have unique ways of encoding and processing color information. We'll explore color pathways in non-primate species and how they extract ecologically-relevant signals for guiding behavior.

Join us - abstracts by 8/1!
November 22, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Now recognized as one of the brain's canonical computations, Heeger introduced us to normalization as a model for contrast gain control in cat visual cortex in 1992. We'll hear from four speakers on normalization's modern role across visual functions.

Join us - abstracts by 8/1!
November 22, 2024 at 9:09 AM
📢 CALLING ALL VISION SCIENTISTS 📢

Abstract submission for the 2023 Fall Vision Meeting is now OPEN! Submit your abstract by Aug 1.

See you in Seattle in the Fall!

https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2023-meeting/submit-an-abstract
November 22, 2024 at 9:15 AM
We are pleased to announce the Boynton Lecturer for this year's meeting: Professor Rachel Wong, Ph.D., from the University of Washington. Congratulations Rachel!

Please join us in Seattle 5-8 October, 2023 for the Optical Fall Vision Meeting.
November 22, 2024 at 9:15 AM