The Trieste Symposium on
Perception and Cognition

"Comparative Perception" roundtable -
a tribute to Prof. Mario Zanforlin

Friday, 4 November 12:00 am - 1:40 pm
room TBA. H3 building. via A Valerio 12 - Trieste

Preliminary Programme

12:00
title: Stimuli and context in perception
Osvaldo Da Pos
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

12:20
title: Mother-infant lateral biases in humans and wild animals: conservatism of the phenomenon and its benefits for fitness
Yegor Malashichev
Department of Vertebrate Zoology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

12:40
title: Optical illusions as a tool to understand visual perception in monkeys and fish
Christian Agrillo
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy

1:00
title: How Cuttlefish see objects
Daniel Osorio
School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

1:20
A day in a life of a bug linguist
Meta Virant-Doberlet
Department of Organisms and Ecosystems Research,
National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia