Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
to all our customers!

Cambridge Research Systems' offices will be closing from lunchtime on Friday December 23rd until Tuesday 3rd January.

If you wish to leave a message in the meantime, please email us and we will reply as soon as we are back.

Congratulations to the Applied Vision Association, which will be celebrating its tenth anniversary at its Christmas Meeting at Aston University on Monday 19th December 2005.

Cambridge Research Systems are delighted to be sponsoring the CRS Guest Lecture Illusions in motion perception, which will be given by Stuart Anstis, of the University of California San Diego Vision Group, and we recommend a visit to Professor Anstis's web pages, which contain demonstrations of many interesting visual effects and illusions.

Our new Macular Pigment Optical Density test employs the Cavanagh and Anstis method, in which the ambiguous judgment of relative luminance, or minimum flicker, is replaced by an unambiguous decision that can be expressed in simple conceptual terms.

Professor Chris Harris was in the news this week in a BBC report on his research into rare metabolic storage diseases such as Niemann Pick Disease.

Professor Harris is a valued collaborator and customer of our business, and is pictured on the left in his sensorimotor laboratory, HarrisLab, in a rotating chair purchased from Cambridge Research Systems. HarrisLab is part of the new multi-million pound Plymouth Institute of Neuroscience, and is also equipped with our EyeSense EOG amplifier, VSG2/5 and ViSaGe visual stimulus generators, vsgEyetrace software and a Skalar IRIS eyetracker.

Cambridge Research Systems è lieta di sponsorizzare la tredicesimo Kanizsa Lecture e il simposium annuale di Trieste ‘Perception and Cognition'.

Cambridge Research Systems are proud to sponsor The Thirteenth Kanizsa Lecture and the annual Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition.

The lecture, "How the brain thinks about the mind", will be given on Friday 18th November by Dr Alan M. Leslie, Director of the Cognitive Development Laboratory, Rutgers University.

Congratulations to Barbara Marino of Universita degli Studi di Milano Bicocca Dipartimento di Psicologia, winner of the ECVP 2005 Cambridge Research Systems Best Poster Prize.

Here are two of the authors of the poster together with some members of the research group: from left to right: Guido M Cicchini, Barbara F M Marino, Natale Stucchi, Sofia Crespi and Rossana Actis-Grosso.

Click on the image to view a pdf of the winning poster, Changing vision by changing breath.

If you are attending the European Association for Vision and Eye Research in Villamoura, Portugal, October 5-8, look out for a paper being presented by John Mellerio and Peter West, who have been conducting experiments using the Metropsis Macular Pigment Optical Density Test.