Connectionists: Vision Research Special Issue: Quantitative Approaches in Gestalt Perception

[Frank Jäkel]

Vision Research Special Issue

Call for papers: Quantitative Approaches in Gestalt Perception

Reminder: The deadline for submissions is the 30th of November 2014.

Submissions are invited for a special issue of Vision Research on
Quantitative Approaches in Gestalt Perception.

Gestalt Perception has been the topic of research for more than 100
years since Wertheimer’s seminal publication in 1912. Recently,
quantitative approaches to study Gestalt phenomena helped to specify
and clarify some of the early Gestalt notions, generating testable
quantitative predictions lacking from much of the original Gestalt
writings.

This special issue aims to bring together the many diverse
quantitative approaches to the study of Gestalt
Perception. Contributions are sought from visual psychophysics,
computer vision, cognitive psychology, the cognitive neurosciences,
computational neuroscience as well as machine learning and theory.

Papers are invited on all aspects of Gestalt Perception; given the aim
of this Special Issue we have a preference for quantitative
approaches, but may exceptionally consider purely experimental work as
well as historical treatments and reviews if they specifically provide
groundwork for future formal developments.

Examples of specific topics include (but are not limited to):
- Attention and Top-Down Effects on Gestalt Perception
- Configural Superiority
- Environmental and Image Statistics and Gestalts
- Figure-Ground Segmentation
- History and Review of Gestalt Perception
- Learning and Development of Gestalt Perception
- Models of Gestalt Phenomena
- Neuronal Basis of Gestalt Effects
- Object Formation
- Object Recognition and Gestalt
- Perceptual Grouping
- Perceptual Organization of Motion, Form or Scenes
- Shape Perception
- Structural Representations

The deadline for submissions is the 30th of November 2014, and the
publication of the Special Issue is planned for July 2015.

http://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-quantitative-approaches-in-gestalt-percepti/