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DIFFERENT MINDS COLLABORATIVE

Welcome!

Welcome to the Different Minds Collaborative (or DMC for short).  The DMC is an inter-disciplinary and international group of vision scientists from the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, computer science, located in universities across North America, Europe and Australia. 

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2024-2025 Talk Schedule

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Talk 1

Does semantic information influence scanning and recognition of newly learned faces and names?

September 11, 2024

Isabelle Boutet​

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Talk 2

Perceptual, memory, and neural mechanisms underlying developmental prosopagnosia

October 9, 2024

Joe DeGutis & Alison Campbell​

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Talk 3

Unlocking the power of partnership: How humans and algorithms can work together to improve face recognition

November 13, 2024

Geraldine Jeckeln

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Talk 4

Different Neuronal Signatures of Attentional Allocation for two Processes Supporting Visual Awareness of Complex Scenes

December 11, 2024

Karla Evans​

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Talk 5

What Makes a Picture Worth 1000 Words? The Interplay of Visual and Semantic Complexity in Rapid Scene Understanding

January 8, 2025

Michelle Greene

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Talk 6

Why is a raven like a writing desk? Mapping and tracking object representations

February 12, 2025

Heida Maria Sigurdardottir​

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Talk 7

Integrating face perception and social cognition to understand first impressions

March 12, 2025

Clare Sutherland

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April 9, 2025

Trainee Conference

 

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May 16 - 21, 2025

Vision Sciences Society Conference

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Talk 8

Title: TBA

June 11, 2025

Fang Jiang

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Talk 9

Title: TBA

July 9, 2025

Kami Koldewyn

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We acknowledge with respect the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

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