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                           Announcement




  *************************************************************
                     From Codes To Cognition
                     Foundational Aspects of
                  Visual Information Processing
                                 
                      Centennial Conference 
                 in Honour of Hermann v.Helmholtz
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                    University of Kiel/Germany
                        17.-21. July 1994


The conference will address general fundamental psychological problems
of visual perception in areas such as shape from shading, stereo vision, 
colour and form perception and attention. A basic theme recurring 
throughout the conference will be how perceptual achievements relate 
to sensory input. Since Helmholtz and his notion of "unconscious 
  inferences", several theoretical intuitions (e.g. the concept 
of "ill-posed problems", Barlow's statistical model for the discovery 
of "independent coincidences", Ullman and Koenderink's discussion of 
Gibson's ideas of "direct perception", Hoffman's "observer mechanics", 
Shepard's ideas on resonance) concerning the principles of perception 
revolve around the attempt to bridge the gap between the (often 'meagre') 
            sensory input and the actual performance.

     Attempts to theoretically understand the interaction of
    - restrictions and invariants of the physical environment,
       - theoretical limiting factors of the sensory system
                                   as well as
- restrictions on the categorization and interpretation of sensory
         information that have been internalized in the 
                       course of evolution
            will be the main focus of this conference.



SPEAKERS: 
           S.ANSTIS (San Diego), L.AREND (Princeton), 
         H.B.BARLOW (Cambridge), H.BUELTHOFF (Tuebingen),
           M.FAHLE (Tuebingen), D.D.HOFFMAN (Irvine), 
          Chr.KOCH (Pasadena), J.KOENDERINK (Utrecht), 
          D.MACLEOD (San Diego), H.MALLOT (Tuebingen), 
            O.NEUMANN (Bielefeld), R.NIEDEREE (Kiel), 
        Chr.NOTHDURFT (Goettingen), E.POEPPEL (Muenchen), 
         W.PRINZ (Muenchen), V.RAMACHANDRAN (San Diego), 
          E.SCHEERER (Oldenburg), R.SHEPARD (Stanford), 
        G.SPERLING (Irvine), S.ULLMAN (Cambridge, Mass.), 
                      P.WHITTLE (Cambridge)


Address correspondence to:
                           Dieter Heyer
                         Rainer Mausfeld
                     Institute for Psychology
                        University of Kiel
                        24098 Kiel/Germany
                       Fax: +49-431-8802975
                E-mail: gpo65@rz.uni-kiel.d400.de


-- 
Dieter Heyer	   kdh@tpki.toppoint.de
2300 Kiel          gpo33@rz.uni-kiel.dbp.de