<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">******************************** OPAM 2026 ********************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">34th Annual Workshop on Object Perception, Attention, and Memory</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">WEBSITE:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://www.opamconference.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.opamconference.com/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">November 19, 2026 in San Diego, California</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">********************************************************************************</span></p><div><p>The OPAM Team is excited to announce <b>Dr. Geoffrey Woodman</b> as the OPAM 2026 Keynote Speaker!</p><p>Dr. Woodman is the E. Bronson Ingram Chair of Neuroscience and Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, where he leads the <a href="https://www.geoffwoodman.com/" target="_blank">Woodman Brain Lab</a>. He completed his PhD with Steven Luck and Shaun Vecera at the University of Iowa before going to Vanderbilt for a postdoc with Marvin Chun and Jeffrey Schall, where he has remained ever since.</p><p>Dr. Woodman and his students research how the human and nonhuman primate brain selectively processes and stores information. The lab takes a multi-method approach, combining EEG, event-related potentials, single- and multi-unit recordings, local field potentials, eye tracking, brain stimulation, and computational modeling to understand how the brain implements attentional filtering, storage in working and long-term memory, and cognitive control. A central theme is the interplay between attention and memory: how attentional templates are stored and retrieved, how working and long-term memory cooperate to guide attentional selection, and how brain stimulation can causally modulate these processes.</p><p>Dr. Woodman has a strong commitment to training the next generation of scientists, dedicating considerable time and energy to the development of researchers at all career stages, from undergraduates to postdoctoral fellows.</p><p>Dr. Woodman is a member of the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center and serves as Director of the VVRC Training Grant from the National Eye Institute. His lab has also received funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He has served as Associate Editor at the Journal of Neuroscience and JEP:HPP. </p><p><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px">********************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">OPAM abstract submissions are open, with the submission window closing </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">July 15, 2026</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. Abstract submission information can be found on </span><a href="https://www.opamconference.com/opam2026" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><b>our website</b></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We look forward to seeing you at OPAM this year!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The 2026 OPAM organizers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Giovanna Del Sordo, Sisi Wang, Hong Nguyen, Mallory Terry, Zexuan Niu & Irina Lavrova </span></p></div></div>