Scientific rigour extends to the dinner menu too... 🔬🍽️ The ECVP organising team has been busy conducting some highly important pilot testing of the conference dinner options. Results so far are very promising. Sneak peaks from the menu coming soon! 👀 #ECVP2026 #ConferencePlanning #Bournemouth

🍷 Behind every great conference is a long list of important tasks. Reviewing abstracts ✔️ Finalising schedules ✔️ Coordinating venues ✔️ Ending up with 4 bottles of wine from food tasting at the conference dinner ✔️ ECVP 2026 preparations are well underway. #ECVP2026 #Bournemouth #VisionScience

🌊 Farewell Party – ECVP 2026 📅 27 August 2026 📍 Bournemouth Pier We’ll close ECVP 2026 with a celebration on the pier. Expect music, great company, and a memorable seaside atmosphere as we wrap up a week of vision science together. #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

🎭 Have an idea for an illusion to showcase at #ECVP2026? The deadline to submit to this year's Illusion Night is fast approaching! Make sure to send in your submission by 30 June 2026. ⏰ Deadline: 30 June 2026 #VisionScience #VisualIllusions #PerceptionResearch

Congratulations to everyone whose talk or poster has been selected for #ECVP2026! 🥳🎉 Confirmation emails were sent out yesterday. If you haven't received yours yet, please let us know. We look forward to welcoming you in August 🌊☀️

🍷 Conference Dinner 📅 26 Aug 📍 Pavilion Theatre Join us for an evening of food and conversation in a stunning Art Deco venue by the sea. #ECVP2026

👀 Illusion & Demo Night 📅 25 Aug 📍 TBC A highlight of ECVP — interactive illusions, demos, VR & eye tracking. Vision science brought to life by researchers. #ECVP2026 #Illusions

🥂 Welcome Reception 📅 23 Aug | 20:00–22:00 📍 Bournemouth International Centre Kick off ECVP 2026 after the Perception Lecture with an evening of networking and conversation — just steps from the sea. #ECVP2026

🎉 More than just science at European Conference on Visual Perception We’ve got a fantastic lineup of social events planned — from receptions to demos and seaside celebrations. More details coming soon… you won’t want to miss it. #ECVP2026

Thank you for registering for ECVP 2026! 🎉 We’re incredibly excited by all the amazing contributions—there’s so much inspiring work ahead. Can’t wait to see you there and share in what’s shaping up to be an unforgettable conference! ✨

⏰ Final reminder! Deadline for ECVP 2026 abstracts & early bird reg: April 21, 11:59 PM. Very little time left! 🌍 Travelling to the UK? You may need an ETA (£20 via gov.uk). Avoid unofficial sites. #ECVP2026

✈️ Did you know? Getting to ECVP 2026 is easy & affordable! Fly via London airports, take coaches from £9.40 (National Express), or use Eurostar. 🏨 Hotels from ~£69. ⏰ Deadline: April 21! #ECVP2026

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🥽 Curious about virtual reality in psychological research? Join Markus Bindemann, Rachael Taylor, and Lisa Huerta (University of Kent) for: VR Foundations for Researchers in Experimental Psychology Discover the foundations of virtual reality methodology! #VirtualReality #VRResearch

📊 Ready to level up your stats game? Join Alexander Pastukhov (University of Bamberg) for: You should program your statistical models in Stan. It is easier than you think, and I’ll show you how. A practical introduction to programming statistical models in Stan. #Stan #OpenScience #DataScience

📄 Make your research more transparent and reproducible! Join Eline Van Geert and Lisa Koßmann (KU Leuven) for: Reproducible research reports with Quarto Learn how to create dynamic and reproducible research reports using Quarto to support open scientific practices. #OpenScience #Quarto

🙂 ECVP Symposia Spotlight# Featuring: • Recent Advances in Face Perception and Identification — Alejandro J. Estudillo & Christel Devue • Artificial Intelligence as a Window into Material Perception — Masataka Sawayama & Filipp Schmidt #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

🔍 ECVP Symposia Spotlight Featuring: • Perception as Inference Across Scales — Guido Maiello & Veronica Pisu • Strategies for searching: better understanding visual foraging — Anna E. Hughes & Jérôme Tagu #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

🌀ECVP Symposia Spotlight Featuring: • Probing the Visual System: Illusions as Windows into Typical and Atypical Cognition — Erez Freud & Elisabeth Hein • Visuomotor transforms in prostheses, virtual reality, and teleoperation — Emily Crowe #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

🎯 ECVP Symposia Spotlight Featuring: • What vision scientists can learn from continuous movement tracking during decision making — Elahe’ Yargholi • Vision on the Move: From Eye Movements to Visual Encoding (and back) — Antonella Pomè & Alessandro Benedetto #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

🧠 ECVP symposia Spotlight Featuring: • Beyond local features: Spatiotemporal structure in perception and neural processing — David Pascucci & Michael H. Herzog • The rhythmic nature of perception and attention: Evidence, challenges, and open questions — Maëlan Q. Menétrey #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

📢 Reminder: ECVP 2026 Submission Deadline Approaching Just a reminder that the extended submission deadline for ECVP 2026 is in 6 days! ⏰ Submit your abstract by 21 May to be part of the 48th ECVP We look forward to receiving your submissions! #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #ConferenceDeadline

🎤 ECVP 2026 Rank Prize Lecture Monica Gori - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova The Early Role of Vision in Multisensory Development How vision shapes early sensory integration—and what happens when visual input is absent in early life. Sponsored by The Rank Prize ️ #ECVP2026

🎤 ECVP 2026 Spotlight in Vision Lecture Nadine Dijkstra - University College London Distinguishing imagination from reality in a generative brain. Using psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational modelling to understand how the brain decides if what we experience is real or imagined.

📝 Submitting to European Conference on Visual Perception? 1️ Register via Eventbrite 2️ Submit via Oxford Abstracts ⚠️ Include your Order ID from your confirmation email — abstracts without it won’t be considered. 🔗https://ecvp2026.uk/submissions/index.html #ECVP2026

📝 Deadline extended! The deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration for ECVP is now 21st April! More time to submit your work — we look forward to seeing your contributions. Please note that the deadline for abstract submission will not be extended further. #ECVP2026

📅 Early bird registration for European Conference on Visual Perception closes 7 April. Join the vision science community in Bournemouth this August and secure your place at a reduced rate. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecvp-2026-... #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

🎤 ECVP 2026 Perception Lecture Karl Gegenfurtner - University of Giessen Colour Vision — Then and Now Exploring fundamental questions in colour vision using VR, deep neural networks, and large-scale behavioural experiments. Sponsored by Sage – Perception / i-Perception 🎨 #ECVP2026 #ColorVision

👀 ECVP 2026 Keynotes – Coming Soon We’re excited to welcome three exceptional keynote speakers to the 48th European Conference on Visual Perception in Bournemouth. Over the next few posts, we’ll introduce each speaker and their talks. Stay tuned! 🧠✨ #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #Neuroscience

🏨 ECVP 2026 Accommodation Hotels in Bournemouth have reserved some of their rooms for ECVP delegates with guaranteed conference rates. 📅 Book by 19 Aug before rooms are released to the public via our booking service: 🔗 bebres.bzon.uk/event/48th-e... 🌊 #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #Bournemouth

✨ Meet the organisers for #ECVP2026! 👩‍🔬 Dr Anna Metzger & 👨‍🔬 Dr Matteo Toscani (Bournemouth University) are helping shape this year’s meeting. Their research spans visual & multisensory perception, colour, material appearance & eye movements. Excited for a fantastic ECVP! 👁️🧠

📍 ECVP 2026 Location Highlight — Bournemouth, UK Bournemouth offers: 🌊 Award-winning beaches 🚆 Easy access from London & major airports ☀️ A compact, walkable town centre We’re looking forward to welcoming you in August 2026. #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #PerceptionScience

We are aware that attending conferences can be expensive, especially for students. ECVP 2026 is offering partial travel/fee reimbursements prioritising students from low-income countries and early-career researchers. Apply by 21 Apr! 📧 [email protected] 🌐 Check our website for more info.

🎒✨ Tom Troscianko Memorial Award — now open! The AVA & ECVP committees are offering the Tom Troscianko Memorial Award (up to £2000) to support: ✈️ Travel 🎟 Registration 🌍 A scientific visit to at least one other location 🗓 Deadline: 21 April 2026 Details + how to apply: theava.net/awards/trosc...

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🎟 Registration is now open for ECVP 2026 🗓 23–27 August 2026 📍 Bournemouth, UK Join the vision science community for five days! We look forward to welcoming researchers from across Europe and beyond. 🔗 Register here: ecvp2026.uk/index.html #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #PerceptionScience

📅 Save the Date - ECVP 2026 ECVP is heading to Bournemouth, UK 🗓 23–27 August 2026 Whether you’re a long-time ECVP regular or thinking of joining for the first time — we’d love to see you there 🧠✨ Start planning 👀 #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #PerceptionScience

Ended it with such a fun night 🥂 Farewell Party at #ECVP2025!

Yesterday we had a great last day of #ECVP2025! We finished with interesting talks and poster sessions. A big thank you to everyone for attending. We had an amazing time ✨

#ECVP2025 Last night we had an amazing time with great food and music at Conference Dinner! Luckily the weather held up so we could enjoy the atmosphere outside and inside

#ECVP2025 Round 3 of Talks and Poster Sessions! And to finish the day we had a great time at the Rank Prize Lecture by William Warren ✨

#ECVP2025 In addition to yesterday's Illusion Night we would like to mention the contribution of @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social about Open-Source Toolboxes for aesthetics and perception.

#ECVP2025 Yesterday evening the legendary Illusion Night took place. Everybody had the chance to explore numerous experiments with impressive effects. Thanks to all of you who were presenting.

#ECVP2025 Some impressions of the second day of interesting Talk Sessions and Symposia. One highlight was the Spotlight in Vision lecture by Prof. Roland W. Fleming

#ECVP2025 We had an amazing time yesterday night playing PowerPoint Karaoke, Bingo or Giant Jenga at PerceptioNite! Thanks to everyone who joined in.

#ECVP2025 Today we officially started with the first talk and poster sessions - thanks to all speakers !! Now we're ready for the Surprise event and PerceptioNite to come 🎉

#ECVP2025 in Mainz has started !! The #perception lecture by Prof. Astrid Kappers held in Mainz State Theater was a great way to start this year's conference

🤩 You have a brand-new illusion, timeless classic, interactive demo or mini-experiment showcasing the wonders of visual perception? We would be pleased to include it at #ECVP2025 Illusion&Demo Night! 📅 Deadline: June 8, 2025 📧 Proposals to [email protected] All details: 👉 ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de

🎨 Heading to ECVP? Join us at VSAC 2025 (Aug 21-23) in Wiesbaden! Keynotes, symposia, live art, film, & more at the stunning Museum Reinhard Ernst. Abstracts submission extended to May 8! 2025.vsac.eu #VSAC2025 #ECVP2025