Speaker and Poster Abstracts, CVR-CIAN Conference 2025

Welcome to the 2025 Centre for Vision Research (CVR) / Centre for Integrative andApplied Neuroscience (CIAN) international conference, ‘The Brain and Integrative Vision’. This year’s conference brings together CVR’s mission to pursue world-class, interdisciplinary research and training in visual science and its applications with CIAN’s mission to integrate and mobilize York’s neuroscience research and training resources to address worldwide applications in health, education, industry, and beyond. Specifically, the conference program will focus on the many ways in which vision is integrated with other neural systems to support perception, cognition, and behavior. The CVR has held biennial conferences since 1991, each on a different multidisciplinary topic, while this is CIAN’s first international conference. The 2025 conference is presented in partnership with the Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) program and celebrates the success of this signature research program, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund. The conference features a series of seminars from a stellar cast of international neuroscientists and scholars, as well as an exciting array of poster presentations from local and visiting researchers.