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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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2025-2026 Talk Schedule

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Talk 1

Neural Correlates of Visual Complexity and Image Memorability

September 10, 2025

Oscar Solis (Evans Lab)​

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Talk 2

A hierarchical model for affect judgments of natural images: Exploring the role of local, global and category visual features

October 8, 2025

Quoc Vuong​

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Talk 3

Neural representations of faces are widely distributed and highly individualized

November 12, 2025

Ivette Colón (Rogers Lab)​

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Talk 4

What does your mind’s eye actually see? Introducing a visually anchored measure of imagery

December 10, 2025

Heida Maria Sigurdardottir

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Talk 5

Examining perceptual confidence for own-race and other-race face-identity matching decisions

January 14, 2026

Géraldine Jeckeln (O'Toole Lab)​​

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Talk 6

Mind reading and the mental maps of expertise: Using machine learning to uncover category structure in experts and novices

February 11, 2026

Jim Tanaka​​

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Talk 7

Against the male average: Hierarchical Drift Diffusion Modelling of Sex Judgments 

March 11, 2026

Deyan Mitev (Koldewyn Lab)​

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April 8, 2026

Trainee Conference

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May 15 - 19, 2026

Vision Sciences Society Conference​​​​

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Talk 8

Title: TBA

June 10, 2026

Speaker: Oruc Lab​

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Talk 9

Title: TBA

July 8, 2026

Speaker: Greene Lab​

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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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