Sino-German workshop – Attention and Perception (23rd June)

Date: 23rd June 2023
Venue: Room 2102, Leopoldstr. 13, Department of Psychology, LMU Munich

Program

Session 1: Attention and Visual Search

8:50 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening (Hermann J. Müller)

9:00 – 9:45 Li Zhaoping 李兆平(University of Tübingen, MPI for Biological Cybernetics):
Central vision is mainly for seeing, peripheral vision is main for looking.

9:45 – 10:30 Lihui Wang 王立卉(Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
Specifying the functions of the fixation sequences in face recognition

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:30 Melissa Võ (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Anchoring predictions during real-world search

11:30 – 12:15 Artyom Zinchenko (LMU Munich)
Context Matters: Investigating the Role of Contextual Information in Attentional Guidance

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch break

Session 2: Reward and Search, Multisensory Integration

13:15-14:00 Guanlan Kang 康冠兰(Beijing Sport University):
Reward delays quitting in visual search

14:00 – 14:45 Huanke Zeng 曾桓珂(Peking University, China)
Spatial ventriloquism: Audiovisual integration adapts to context dynamically

14:45 – 15:30 Lihan Chen 陈立翰(Peking University, China):
Crossmodal correspondence modulates audiovisual integration through top-down control

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

Session 3: Functions, Computation, and Neural Mechanisms

15:45 – 16:30 Zhuanghua Shi 施壮华(LMU Munich)
Suppressing distractor interference: the role of probability learning and reward association

16:30 – 17:15 Stefan Glasauer (Brandenburg University of Technology):
Modeling individual and contextual differences in magnitude perception

17:15 – 18:00 Alexander Soutschek (LMU Munich)
Neural basis of mental effort

19:00 Dinner

The Sino-German workshop is backed by research initiatives SH 166/7-1 and MU 773/18-1, funded by German Research Foundation (DFG).

Venue (room 2102, Leopoldstr. 13, Munich)

How to get there

Arriving by public transport

From Airport:
Take S-Bahn  S8 or S1 to Munich city center, Marienplatz. Then change to Underground U3 or U6 in the direction of Odeonsplatz for three stops to the stop named “Giselastraße“. Leave the underground you will reach the building Leopoldstr. 13.

From central railway station:
Take Underground U4 or U5 in the direction of “Odeonsplatz“. Then change to U3 or U6 in the direction of “Münchenfreiheit” for two stops to the stop named “Giselastrße“.

Arriving by car

When you come from the North direction of Nürnberg, exit Freimann, then turn to Frankfurter Ring in the direction of city center/ Schwabing. You will find the Leopoldstreet easily.