ICPA
Keynote Speaker: William Mace
After majoring in Psychology as an undergraduate
at Yale University, William Mace enrolled in graduate school at
Institute of Child Development of the University of Minnesota
in 1967, intending to study cognitive development, mainly inspired
by the work of Piaget. Prof. Mace discovered, however, that the
most exciting work on cognition was in Chomsky-inspired psycholinguistics.
Late in his graduate school career, Mace began taking courses
from Robert E. Shaw, in the Minnesota Psychology Department, and
was persuaded that the approach to perception developed by James
Gibson would be even more fruitful than psycholinguistics. Shaw
became Mace's dissertation adviser in 1970 and the work was completed
in 1971.
In 1971, Mace accepted a faculty position
at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He was invited to
teach Child Psychology at Cornell University in the summer of
1974. This made it possible for him to attend James Gibson's seminars
and to spend time at the Gibson home as well. The next year, at
the urging of Michael Turvey, Robert Shaw moved to the University
of Connecticut, making possible collaborations between Mace, Shaw,
and Michael Turvey.
In 1981, Mace, Shaw, and Leonard Mark established
the International Society for Ecological Psychology (ISEP). Mace
has performed the primary duties of the Society ever since. In
1989, the journal, Ecological Psychology, was established, with
Mace serving as Editor. Mace currently directs ISEP, is editor
of the journal, Ecological Psychology, and is one of the editors
of the Lawrence Erlbaum book series, Resources for Ecological
Psychology.
Representative publications
Mace, W. M. (1974). Ecologically
stimulating cognitive psychology. In W. Weimer and D. Palermo
(Eds.), Cognition and the symbolic processes. Vol. 1. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Mace, W. M. (1977). James J. Gibson's strategy
for perceiving: Ask not what's inside your head, but what your
head's inside of. In R. E. Shaw & J. Bransford (Eds.), Perceiving,
acting, and knowing. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mace, W. M. (1985). Johansson's approach
to visual event perception - Gibson's perspective. In W. H. Warren,
Jr. & R. E. Shaw (Eds.). Persistence and change: Proceedings
of the First International Conference on Event Perception.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mace, W. M. (1986). J. J. Gibson's ecological
theory of information pickup: Cognition from the ground up. In
T. J. Knapp & L. Robertson (Eds.) Approaches to cognition:
Contrasts and controversies. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
ICPA Keynote
Speaker: Barbara Gillam
Prof. Barbara Gillam graduated BA from
University of Sydney and Phd from ANU. She lectured at University
of Reading UK, and migrated to USA because of her husband's job.
Prof. Gillam has held research positions at Columbia Universit
and then held Assoc. Professor and Professor positions at State
University of New York (SUNY), College of Optometry, where she
taught perception and binocular vision. She was Head of Department
of Behavioral Sciences and Public Health SUNY. Prof. Gillam is
Member of Basic Behavioral Processes Study Section (NIMH), and
is Consulting Editor for Perception and Psychophysics journal.
She is also a Guggenheim Fellow. Barbara returned to Sydney in
1986 to be Professor of
Psychology and Head of School of Psychology at the University
of New South Wales (UNSW). She is Member of the Australian Research
Council's Social Sciences Panel, as well as its Chair of the Cognitive
Science Priority Panel. She is also Member of the National Committee
for Psychology, and President of the Psychology Foundation of
Australia. Prof. Gillam is currently ARC Professorial Fellow,
Scientia Professor at UNSW.
Representative publications
Gillam, B. (1980). Geometrical Illusions. Scientific American
242, 102-111,(Reprinted in I. Rock (Ed.), 1990, The Perceptual
World. New York, NY: Freeman, and in J. Wolfe (Ed.), 1986,
The Mind's Eye, New York, NY: Freeman).
Gillam, B., & Lawergren, B. (1983).
The induced effect, vertical disparity & stereoscopic theory.
Perception & Psychophysics, 34, 120-130.
Gillam, B., & Nakayama, K. (1999).
Subjective contours at abutting lines as scene layout analysis.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception &
Performance, 28, 43-53.
Gillam, B. (2001). Varieties of grouping
and its role in determining surface layout. in T. Shipley and
P. Kellman (Eds.), From fragments to objects: Segmentation
and grouping in Vision. Elsevier.
Gillam, B., & Chan, W.-M., (2002).
Grouping has a negative effect on both subjective contours and
perceived occlusion at T-junctions. Psychological Science,
13, 279-283.
ICPA Keynote Speaker:
Mandyam V. Srinivasan
Prof. Mandyam Srinivasan holds an undergraduate
degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, a
Master's degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Science,
a Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University,
and a D.Sc. in Neuroethology from the Australian National University.
He is presently Professor of Visual Sciences at the Australian
National University's Research School of Biological Sciences and
Director of the University's Centre for Visual Science. He is
a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the
Royal Society of London, and an Inaugural Australian Federation
Fellow. Prof. Srinivasan's research focuses on the principles
of visual processing in simple natural systems, and on the application
of these principles to machine vision and robotics.
Representative publications
Srinivasan, M. V., & Zhang, S. W. (2000).
Visual navigation in flying insects. In M. Lappe (Ed.), International
Review of Neurobiology (Vol 44): Neuronal Processing of Optic
Flow (pp. 67-92). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Srinivasan, M. V., & Zhang, S. W.,
Altwein, M., & Tautz, J. (2000). Honeybee navigation: Nature
and calibration of the 'odometer'. Science 287, 851-853.
Srinivasan, M. V. (2002). Visual flight
control and navigation in honeybees, and applications to robotics.
In J. Ayers, J. L. Davis and A. Rudolph (Eds.), Neurotechnology
for Biomimetic Robots (pp 593 - 610). Boston, MA: MIT Press.
Srinivasan, M. V. (1998). Insects as Gibsonian
animals. Ecological Psychology, 10, 251-270.