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About OPAM

The OPAM conference is dedicated to issues in Object Perception, visual Attention, and visual Memory. OPAM is a forum primarily for scientists early in their careers, such as graduate students or postdocs who do not yet have the opportunity to present at the Psychonomic Society meeting. It provides an excellent opportunity to present research to a large audience mainly drawn from the Psychonomics community. The conference embraces a diversity of approaches, including psychophysics, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging. Accepted presentations receive fast-tracked decision privileges at Visual Cognition, promoting the rapid dissemination of high-quality work to the academic community.

OPAM takes place immediately before the Psychonomic Society meeting and at the same hotel/convention center.

If you would like to view the history of the OPAM conferences, including previous presenters and organizers, head on over to the Archive page.

Organizers

The current OPAM 32 organizers are:

• Dock Duncan, PhD candidate with Jan Theeuwes at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Noah Britt, PhD candidate with Hong-Jin Sun at McMaster University
• William Narhi-Martinez, postdoc with Kia Nobre at Yale University
• Han Zhang, postdoc with John Jonides at the University of Michigan
• Karolina Krzys, PhD candidate with Monica Castelhano at Queen’s University
• Ryan O’Donnell, postdoc with Alexa Tompary at Drexel University

The organizers for OPAM 31 were:

• Chenxiao Guan, postdoc with Hui Chen and Mowei Shen at Zhejiang University, China
• Han Zhang, postdoc with John Jonides at the University of Michigan
• Karolina Krzys, PhD candidate with Monica Castelhano at Queen’s University
• Ryan O’Donnell, PhD candidate with Brad Wyble at Penn State University

Gathering of Former Organizers

Former organizers often don orange OPAM t-shirts and gather at the Vision Sciences Society conference. Here are some pictures of the recent gatherings at VSS and online:

Recent OPAM publication & placement history