Subject: [AUDITORY] Fechner Day 2017 From: Kazuo UEDA <ueda@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 18:10:19 +0900 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>(Please excuse cross postings) Dear Colleagues:=20 You are cordially invited to Fechner Day 2017, the 33rd Annual Meeting = of the International Society for Psychophysics, which will be held in Fukuoka, Japan, from Sunday to Thursday, 22-26 October 2017. Please = refer to our website for information on how to propose theme sessions, make submissions and to register, as well as other details <http://fechnerday.com/fd2017/>. This meeting is organized by the Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science (ReCAPS), Kyushu = University <http://www.recaps.design.kyushu-u.ac.jp/index_e.html>. 1. Conference Venue The conference takes place in Kyosokan (from 22 to 25 October) and=20 Honkan (on 26 October only), Denki Building, 2-1 Watanabe-dori,=20 Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0004, Japan. 2. Areas of Interest Authors are invited to submit papers and propose symposiums on=20 topics including, but not limited to: Sensory processes Perception of space and time Cross-modal processing Psychophysical methods Mathematical and computational models Animal psychophysics History and philosophy of psychophysics Cognitive factors in psychophysics (e.g. memory, attention) Practical applications 3. Key Dates All key dates are in Japan Standard Time (JST), which is nine hours=20 ahead of Universal Time (Greenwich Time: GMT). =E2=80=A2 Friday, 21 April 2017, 17:00 (JST): Deadline for symposium=20 proposals. =E2=80=A2 Friday, 5 May 2017: Deadline for submission of free talks, = posters,=20 and stipend applications. =E2=80=A2 Friday, 30 June 2017: Deadline for submission of proceedings=20= manuscripts. =E2=80=A2 Friday, 21 July 2017: Deadline for early registrations. =E2=80=A2 Friday, 22 September 2017: Deadline for registrations. 4. Events =E2=80=A2 Sunday, 22 October: Welcome reception takes place from 5 to 7=20= p.m. in Conference Room C, Kyosokan. =E2=80=A2 Monday, 23 October: Keynote Presentations by Prof. Isamu=20 Motoyoshi (Department of Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo),=20 "Visual psychophysics with natural images," and Prof. Robert=20 Hartsuiker (Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent=20 University), "Processing spoken words in a second language:=20 Competition, prediction, and alignment (provisional title)." =E2=80=A2 Wednesday, 25 October: The 2nd International Five-Sense=20 Symposium, and Gala Dinner. 5. Contact Please feel free to e-mail the organizers with any questions=20 <fd2017@xxxxxxxx>. -- Kazuo UEDA, Ph.D. Associate Professor Unit of Perceptual Psychology, Dept. Human Science/ Research Center for Applied Perceptual Science Kyushu University, 4-9-1 Shiobaru, Minami-ku Fukuoka 815-8540, Japan Phone & Facsimile +81 92 553 9460 e-mail ueda@xxxxxxxx