Dear Colleagues, The 12th International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA12), will occur during 13th -18th July, 2003, in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia. We are delighted that this is the first time that ICPA is being held in the Southern Hemisphere. ICPA12: HOME PAGE

Beginning in 1981 as an initiative of the International Society for Ecological Psychology (ISEP), ICPA has become the main biannual forum for researchers and scientists interested in how information constrains an organism's behaviour - a concept that was first championed by the psychologist James J. Gibson and has since developed into the ecological approach to perception and action. ICPA provides a unique opportunity for researchers from multidisciplinary backgrounds to interact and consider issues of mutual interest that can all broadly be related to the general theoretical theme of information-based perception and action.

Topics such as perception, visual and auditory information, perceptual learning, dynamical systems models of action, human and animal cognition, neurodynamics, haptic perception, event perception, speech perception and production, social coordination, virtual vs. direct realism, vision and visualisation, embodied intelligence and robotics, the nature of attention andintentionality, and their relation to affordances - are typical of the topics presented and discussed at ICPA.

Of special interest this year is the option for you to also attend a satellite conference: Sensorimotor Coordination: Behavioural Modes and Neural Mechanisms in the week prior to the conference. This will be held at a beautiful resort on Fraser Island which is off the central Queensland coast. For further details, please click here.

As with previous ICPAs, accepted papers will be made available in a specially edited book, Studies in Perception and Action, published by LEA.

In addition to those of you we hope will attend as usual, we hope there will be many new faces who will make the trip and will find Australia relatively easy to reach and well-worth the effort. Although these are difficult times for considering international travel, rest assured that Australia is one of the safest countries in the world, an the Gold Coast in particular, is considered a natural haven within Australia.

Please see the personal message from J. J. Gibson: Read Message

We hope to see you at ICPA ("I see PA")!

- Paul Treffner

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Paul Treffner

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