<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:0.875rem;padding:20px 0px 0px;font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:black;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Subj: OPAM Welcomes New Organizers for 2026</span></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div id="m_-3737675084796543816gmail-:p9" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.875rem;overflow-x:hidden"><div id="m_-3737675084796543816gmail-:p8" style="direction:ltr;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;overflow:auto hidden"><div id="m_-3737675084796543816gmail-avWBGd-20"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">******************************** OPAM 2026 ********************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">34rd Annual Conference on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">November 19th, 2026 in San Diego, CA, USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">********************************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">The Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) conference would like to welcome three new organizers this year: <b>Mallory Terry, Irina Lavrova,</b> and <b>Zexuan Niu</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">. They will be joining </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.6667px">Giovanna Del Sordo, Sisi Wang, and Hong Nguyen</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"> to lead OPAM 2026 this year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This year, we received a number of excellent applications from strong candidates across a wide range of early career stages, and it was a difficult selection process. Preference was given to early-career researchers without faculty positions at the time of appointment, particularly postdoctoral researchers. This by no means disqualifies any of the other applicants, and we strongly encourage them to apply in future years.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We appreciate the support from the OPAM community, and we would like to again thank Noah Britt, William Narhi-Martinez, and Dock Duncan</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> for their exceptional service to the OPAM community. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">And one last thanks to our generous OPAM 2025 sponsors!</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please stay tuned for updates on our website and listserv for announcements and upcoming opportunities to present, participate, and sponsor OPAM. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The OPAM 2026 senior organizers,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Giovanna Del Sordo, Sisi Wang, Hong Nguyen</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*OPAM 2025 Sponsors*</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Psychonomic Society -</span><a href="http://www.psychonomic.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> www.psychonomic.org</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">JS Held - </span><a href="https://www.jsheld.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.jsheld.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">SR Research -</span><a href="http://www.sr-research.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> http://www.sr-research.com</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Exponent -</span><a href="https://www.exponent.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> https://www.exponent.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">VPixx Technologies -</span><a href="http://vpixx.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> http://vpixx.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Gorilla - </span><a href="https://gorilla.sc/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://gorilla.sc/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Visual Cognition -</span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pvis20/current" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/pvis20/current</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Frontiers in Cognition - </span><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cognition</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Frontiers in Cognition Survey Link: </span><a href="https://frontiersin.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_escP0dV7EzzHO7k" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://frontiersin.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_escP0dV7EzzHO7k</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The NSSR Perception Laboratory - </span><a href="https://www.nssrperception.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.nssrperception.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Queen’s Visual Cognition Lab, Queen’s University -</span><a href="https://qvcl.ca/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> https://qvcl.ca/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Carlisle Attention and Memory Lab, Lehigh University - </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab/home" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://sites.google.com/lehigh.edu/carlislelab/home</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis - </span><a href="https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://mindbrain.ucdavis.edu/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">George Washington University Cognitive Neuroscience Program - </span><a href="https://psychology.columbian.gwu.edu/phd-cognitive-neuroscience" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://psychology.columbian.gwu.edu/phd-cognitive-neuroscience</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">OSU Vision & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, The Ohio State University - </span><a href="https://u.osu.edu/golomblab/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://u.osu.edu/golomblab/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Scene Grammar Lab, LMU Munich - </span><a href="https://www.scenegrammarlab.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.scenegrammarlab.com/</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Woodman Brain Lab, Vanderbilt University - </span><a href="https://www.geoffwoodman.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.geoffwoodman.com</span></a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>