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The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics

with a preceding conference celebrating

THE 200th BIRTHDAY of G.Th. FECHNER

Leipzig, October 19th - 23rd, 2001

Friday 19th
 
14:00-22:00Registration at the Renaissance Leipzig Hotel
  
15:00-16:30 Forum and Round Table Discussion: University of Leipzig, HS 19
 Perspectives in Psychological Experimentation: 1980-2001-2020
 Gustav Adolf Lienert Memorial Symposium
 Organized by Erich Schröger
20:00Special lecture in honor of G.Th. Fechner: Altes Rathaus
  (in German, simultaneous translation)
 followed by an informal welcome
Saturday 20th: Neues Rathaus
 
 Symposium on Fechner's life and work and his significance for sciences today
 Chairs: Hans-Georg Geissler & Erich Schröger
09:30-15:00Lectures from various fields of science
 Biography, Physics, Mathematics, Psychophysics and Psychology, Neuroscience, Aesthetics, Biology, Philosophy and Ethics
15:30-19:15Forum and Round Table Discussion marking the start of the ISP Meeting:
 Measurement of Sensation: The State of the Art
 Organized by Ehtibar Dzhafarov & Hans Colonius
19:40-20:00Presentation of various texts written by Fechner
 (in German, English transcripts available)
20:00Conference banquet
 Includes: Presentation of a film about Fechners life
October 21st - 23rd: Renaissance Leipzig Hotel
Sunday 21st
 
8:50Opening Address and Welcome
9:00-11:45Theme Session I: Fechner's Inner Psychophysics Today
 Organized by Martha Teghtsoonian
11:45Group photo
12:00Lunch
13:30-16:15Theme Session II: Memory Psychophysics and the Information Processing Approach
 Organized by Erdmute Sommerfeld
16:15Coffee break
16:30-19:15Theme Session III: Process Models and Psychophysical Relations
 Organized by James T. Townsend
Monday 22nd
 
8:30-11:15Theme Session IV: Context Dependent Psychophysics
 Organized by Viktor Sarris & Gerd Haubensak
11:15Coffee break
11:30-12:30Poster Session
12:30Lunch
14:00-14:45Noon Lecture: Hans-Georg Geissler
 Psychophysics of Task-related Structural Representations
14:45Coffee break
15:00-16:00Discussion on Perceptual and Psychophysical Terminology
 Organized by Helen Ross
16:00Coffee break
17:00Guided tour "Leipzig music and Fechner"
Tuesday 23rd
 
8:30-11:15Theme Session V: Color and Motion
 Organized by Walter H. Ehrenstein & Galina V. Paramei,
 dedicated to Evgeniy N. Sokolov on the occasion of his 80th birthday
11.15Coffee break
11:30-12:30Poster Session
12:30Lunch
14:00-14:45Noon Lecture: Marina Pavlova
 Medical Psychophysics and Brain Imaging
14:45Coffee break
15:00-18:00Theme Session VI: Loudness
 Organized by Mary Florentine,
 dedicated to Bertram Scharf on the occasion of his 70th birthday
18:00Coffee break
18:15Business Meeting
Wednesday 24th:
 
Sightseeing tour of Dresden
 

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