Who We Are

A Vital Platform for Early-Career Scientists

Founded in 1993, the OPAM conference has become an essential platform for early-career scientists with a research focus on Object Perception, Visual Attention, and Visual Memory. The one-day conference embraces a variety of approaches, including psychophysics, eye-tracking, and neuroimaging. Now in its fourth decade, OPAM has steadily expanded in size. In 2023, we hosted over 80 presenters and almost 200 in-person attendees from all over the world.

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

Substantial Intellectual Merit

OPAM has an established history of generating substantial intellectual merits: based on a recent poll of OPAM talk presenters (response rate: 71%) from 2016 to 2022, 67% of OPAM talks were published in peer-reviewed journals. 60% of the respondents subsequently secured postdoctoral or faculty positions, and 22% secured industry or government positions. This substantial intellectual merit is further bolstered by the fact that our presenters have been predominantly graduate students, postdocs, and even undergraduates.

Status of Talks (2016 - 2022)

Academic Diversity (2020 - 2023)

Number of Presentations (1996 - 2023)

Faculty Advisory Board

Michael Hout

Professor, New Mexico State University
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Carly Leonard

Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver
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Andrew Leber

Professor, Ohio State University
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Past Organizers

Not only do the presenters predominantly consist of early-career scientists, but the conference organizers are also graduate students and postdocs who are passionate about advancing science.