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- Colin Ellard, a professor of psychology who specializes in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Walterloo in Canada, and Condia will present "Place, Peripheral Vision and Space Perception: a pilot study in VR" at 9:15 a.m. Their study looks at the consequences of central and peripheral vision in urban plazas of classical and modern articulation.
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