Connectionists: Special Issue on Quantitative Approaches in Gestalt Perception

[Frank Jäkel]

Vision Research will publish a special issue on "Quantitative Approaches
in Gestalt Perception". Submissions are already possible. The deadline
for manuscript submission is November 30.

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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

To prepare their manuscript, authors are asked to follow the “Guide for
Authors”.

All papers should be submitted via the EES online system
http://ees.elsevier.com/vr/default.asp

Select the Article Type as “SI: Gestalt Perception” in the submission
process.

Publication Schedule

EES open for manuscript submissions: June 1 - November 30, 2014
Expected publication date: July 2015

Special Issue Guest Editors

Michael Herzog, Frank Jäkel, Manish Singh, Felix Wichmann

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http://www.journals.elsevier.com/vision-research/call-for-papers/

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