Our final keynote speaker takes the stage at 5:00 PM. Following the keynote, we'll be announcing our student prize winners. We look forward to seeing you there soon! #APCVEPC26

What’s on this morning? 9:00 - 10:30 PM 📍 Stream 1 (303-G20): Symposium on XR in Multisensory Perception 📍 Stream 2 (303-G23): Affect and Empathy 📍 Stream 3 (303-G01): Expectations, Surprise, and Distraction 📍 Stream 4 (303-G02): Reading and the Brain #APCVEPC26

Our Ross Day Plenary keynote speaker for today starts at 5:00 PM. See you all in 303-G20/G23. #APCVEPC26

What’s on this morning? 9:00 - 10:30 PM 📍 Stream 1 (303-G20): Symposium on Imagined Sensations 📍 Stream 2 (303-G23): Society and Social Dynamics 📍 Stream 3 (303-G01): Developmental Psychology and Healthy Aging 📍 Stream 4 (303-G02): Visuomotor Learning and Action #APCVEPC26

ECR keynote speaker starts now! #APCVEPC26

Coming up this afternoon between 13:30 - 15:00 PM 📍 Stream 1 (303-G20): Current Application in VR within Cognitive Science 📍 Stream 2 (303-G23): Social and Game Decisions 📍 Stream 3 (303-G01): Perceptual Modulation 📍 Stream 4 (303-G02): Unconscious Stimulus Processing

For those who are still curious about synaesthesia and want to know more, there is a Synaesthesia Community Event on Sunday, 5th of July 2026. See further details below! The event is free, with limited places. Please book via: mquni.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Poster session I starts at 11:00!

First day of #APCVEPC2026 was filled with image processing, moving tributes, and a lot of chatting. The worst thing that happened is we ran out of canapés, so I'm counting that as a success.

Warm welcome to Day 1 of the conference! Here’s what’s happening from 9:00-10:30 AM: 📍Stream 1 (Room 303-G20): Gaze Perception Symposium 📍Stream 2 (303-G23): Social Coordination 📍Stream 3 (303-G01): Auditory Awareness 📍Stream 4 (303-G02): Clinical Practice and Therapeutics #APCVEPC26

We are officially starting. Welcoming reception starts at 17:30 PM NZT. See you all there #APCVEPC26

Our ECR panel, ‘Navigating academia and industry as an early-career researcher in psychology’ starts soon at 3:30 PM NZT in 303-G20! #APCVEPC26

See you all soon! #APCVEPC26

IT'S CONFERENCE WEEK! 🎉 Welcome to Auckland, NZ for APCV/EPC2026. Whether you're giving a talk, presenting a poster, or simply taking it all in, we're glad to have you here. Tag us with: #APCVEPC26

I adapted a scheduler app that was shared at VSS for this conference: apcvepc2026.netlify.app. Hope others find it useful in organising their time. (And thank you to Miyoung Kwon who created the app originally).

Join Professor Gina Grimshaw on 2 July, 6:00–7:30 PM, for a public lecture discussing how emotions shape attention, memory, decision-making, and human connection. Register now on: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Join us on 1 July, 12:00–3:15 PM, for the Synaesthesia Science & Community Forum. Explore the latest research in consciousness, sensory neuroscience, auditory cognition, and phenomenology through talks and discussion. See here for more details: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Our final schedule and abstract booklet are now available to download from our conference website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026

D-10! See you all soon at APCV & EPC 2026. A reminder of what's happening on the first day: 🔬 A workshop on image processing 🎨 A satellite event on synaesthesia 🎓 An ECR panel on navigating academia & industry The welcome ceremony will start at 17:30 NZT

20 days until APCV & EPC 2026!! Kicking things off on July 1st with: 🔬 A workshop on image processing 🎨 A satellite event on synaesthesia 🎓 An ECR panel on navigating academia & industry The welcome ceremony will start at 17:30 NZT See you all there! #APCVEPC2026

A reminder that the conference schedule is now live on our website at visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ We look forward to seeing everyone soon! #EPCAPCV26

A reminder that the conference schedule is now live on our website at visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ We look forward to seeing everyone soon! #EPCAPCV26

Final days for Early Bird registration! Register now and take advantage of discounted pricing.

Another reminder that our Early Bird Registration closes next week (15th May 26). All presenters, including speakers and discussants, please register by then.

⚠️ LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract. Submissions close 30 April 2026.

❗Last week before the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026❗ Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

⚠️ Reminder: 2 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026. Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

⚠️ Reminder: Only 3 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026. Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

Meet our final keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Dr Corey Wadsley from the University of Auckland will present a keynote lecture titled "Stopping safely: Physiological underpinnings of response inhibition."

Meet our second keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Prof. Elaine Reese from the University of Otago will deliver a keynote lecture titled "Memory Development: From Basic Science to Applied Approaches."

Next up: Keynote Speaker Announcements. Introducing the first speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Prof. Hakwan Lau will present a keynote lecture titled "Prefrontal Mechanisms for Perception."

⚡SYMPOSIA SPOTLIGHT #3 We are wrapping up our Symposia Spotlight with more featured sessions and speakers. We look forward to seeing you there!

⚡SYMPOSIA SPOTLIGHT #2 More symposia highlights from our upcoming conference!

⚡SYMPOSIA SPOTLIGHT #1 We are super excited to announce a series of symposia taking place throughout our conference. Here is a preview of some featured sessions and speakers. Of course, there is more to come. Stay tuned!

Thank you to everyone who applied for the Student Travel Award! We are grateful for all the interest and submissions. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements about our symposiums and keynote speakers! 😁

🚨 FINAL REMINDER. The Student Travel Award application closes tomorrow. This is on a first come first served basis, so don’t miss your chance to secure funding for your travel to EPC & APCV 2026!

🎫 APCV & EPC 2026 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Don’t miss early‑bird pricing and limited‑availability event tickets! For more details, go to: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ See you all on 1 July!

REMINDER! Only 4 days left to apply for 500 AUD travel support to attend the EPC & APCV Joint Meeting 2026. ✅ The award is open to students at all levels. Apply now at visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Coming to APCV & EPC from outside of Auckland, New Zealand? Here is some more information about Student Travel Awards. More available on our website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Coming to APCV & EPC from outside of Auckland, New Zealand? Here is some more information about Student Travel Awards. More available on our website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

The Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC) and Asia Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) are holding a joint meeting in 2026, to be held at the University of Auckland from July 1-4. Abstract submissions now open! visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Another day, another AB presentation! Yleia presented prelim data from their 1st PhD study last week at the 2025 joint Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV) and the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (EPC)! 🔎 @expsyanz.bsky.social #ActiveBrainUC #UniCanberra #attention #AcademicSky

Old friends, new faces, great science. Thanks #epc2025 #apcv2025 and Face & Person Perception Meeting organizers for a fantastic time. Bye, Sydney! 📷: Colin Palmer

The final paper from my PhD is finally out! Huge thank you to my supervisors @genevieve132.bsky.social and @nicolenelson.bsky.social for their support with this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Samantha Curtis for winning the best student presentation prize at the just finished EPC and APCV joint conference. Her talk title was “Priming the distractor reduces the Stroop interference effect by uncoupling the color and word.”

Huge thanks to the organisers of the joint APCV/EPC conference last week - was wonderful getting the opportunity to catch up on all the awesome work going on closer to home @expsyanz.bsky.social #EPC2025

Had a cracking week at the @expsyanz.bsky.social & APCV conference hosted at UNSW 🙌🏼 Was good fun presenting some prelim findings from my 1st PhD study + chat with some cool researchers 🤓 Thanks for the opportunity to present + see the great work being done in experimental psych! 🧠 #ActiveBrainUC

Proud to have been part of the small but mighty team behind this year’s EPC/APCV with @sbmost.bsky.social, Branka Spehar & @popwatson.bsky.social. Pulling off a 400+ person event with just a few academics wasn’t easy, but we managed to do it while keeping that classic EPC warmth and supportiveness.

Congratulations to our HDR candidate Florian Burger on receiving the Best Poster Presentation Award at the recent APCV/EPC Conference! His poster titled "From Visual features to Semantic Structure: Tracing Object Dimensions Through Hierarchical Model Layers." Read the preprint here: lnkd.in/dKqbvpYw

Wrapping up my year as President of the Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology — with eternal gratefulness for this amazing team of fellow 2025 EPC/APCV organisers and advisors: Branka Spehar, @jamesdunn.bsky.social, @popwatson.bsky.social, David Alais, & @visnerd.bsky.social... 1/n