[visionlist] APP Call for Papers: Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson

[Louis Shomette]

Call for Papers

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Influences on Perception and Attention: A Special Issue Celebrating Mary A. Peterson

A new Special Issue for Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (AP&P)



Initial Submissions are due July 1, 2024


Special Issue

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics seeks paper submissions that consider the contributions of top-down and bottom-up information on any aspect of perception and attention in celebration of Professor Mary A. Peterson’s career. For the past three decades, Dr. Peterson has been a leader in the study of how “top-down” forms of information such as knowledge and intention can influence perception. For instance, Dr. Peterson has garnered strong evidence to support the ideas that an observer’s perceptual intentions to perceive one interpretation of an ambiguous display can influence visual perception per se, and not just response; that preexisting representations of shape and meaning stored in an individual’s memory can influence fundamental aspects of perceptual organization that segregate the visual world into objects (figures) and backgrounds; that competition is a mechanism of figure/object detection; and that, due to a previously unconsidered background prior, many of the original Gestalt displays intended to isolate a single image-based figural prior are ambiguous. Dr. Peterson has also contributed to clarifying the relationship between attention and figure-ground perception and has demonstrated that recurrent processing plays a critical role in perceptual organization even when putatively high-level factors are absent. By combining evidence obtained from behavioral, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological approaches, Dr. Peterson’s research program stands as a model for contemporary, theory-driven approaches to cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. Research articles that address these and other related topics would be welcomed.



The issue will reflect the Psychonomic Society’s commitment to scientific merit, which entails the inclusion of scientists regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability status, country of origin, geographic location, and disciplinary expertise.



Submission Guidelines/Deadline
Please reach out to the Guest Editors Laura Cacciamani<mailto:lcacciam at calpoly.edu> and Bradley S. Gibson<mailto:bgibson at nd.edu> if you would like to inquire whether a topic may be suitable under this special issue. All submissions will undergo a standard, full peer review, maintaining the same high editorial standards for regular submissions to Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.


Timeline

Initial Submission Deadline: July 1, 2024

Extended Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024

Action letters required for all first-round submissions: October 1, 2024

Resubmission deadline: December 15, 2024

Action letters from AEs (final decisions): January 30, 2025

Proofs: February 30, 2025

Table of contents assigned: March 15, 2025

Special issue publishes: April 2025



About AP&P

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics is an official journal of the Psychonomic Society. It spans all areas of research in sensory processes, perception, attention, and psychophysics. Most articles published are reports of experimental work; the journal also presents theoretical, integrative, and evaluative reviews. Founded in 1966 as Perception & Psychophysics, the journal assumed its present name in 2009. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-3D00125ZVaBTi91Ley011lLa5Kn6KyX5-5Fgd86hPqo-5FL2Pj2zHawDaXvyUVtw1-5FKZOGcriONzYR34rjNHvHkdV4UkF8mnaej-5FQXDE8HZhOpjBt3fwoOwt2tpiocnAraEJkb2j0DVpG04jpRi91DLBtewVKlA-3D-3D-26c-3Dp-2Dwv1j5qPp74DDfxhUEweum-2DlhEESGv2IPB32iFbKqgSDaQPqKFA0Q-3D-3D-26ch-3Dfh80bSmuGF7KGAP0K2E7-5FjvpvnPJcYJ6R6lqktI5Xz5DQlE-2DDXnBGA-3D-3D&d=DwMFaQ&c=Y1PaM6XenKb8cL-0fIR_eA6jW59yhBQ9XuPR10gwe-8&r=dZQO0o3lwmr00ThMbinZPjho120OL4_WOsX5-pFz-wE&m=lSWqRRHJwvE-UIMBBRwdbuJgI1o8j0wFHWZTaIqpXPVskFzUdkVGBajwZ8cupfXC&s=cML7KnILov8z3aoqXQbb4nWiCDkEaIYBsrZXBLEri7A&e=> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__r20.rs6.net_tn.jsp-3Ff-3D00125ZVaBTi91Ley011lLa5Kn6KyX5-5Fgd86hPqo-5FL2Pj2zHawDaXvyUVtw1-5FKZOGcriONzYR34rjNHvHkdV4UkF8mnaej-5FQXDE8HZhOpjBt3fwoOwt2tpiocnAraEJkb2j0DVpG04jpRi91DLBtewVKlA-3D-3D-26c-3Dp-2Dwv1j5qPp74DDfxhUEweum-2DlhEESGv2IPB32iFbKqgSDaQPqKFA0Q-3D-3D-26ch-3Dfh80bSmuGF7KGAP0K2E7-5FjvpvnPJcYJ6R6lqktI5Xz5DQlE-2DDXnBGA-3D-3D&d=DwMFaQ&c=Y1PaM6XenKb8cL-0fIR_eA6jW59yhBQ9XuPR10gwe-8&r=dZQO0o3lwmr00ThMbinZPjho120OL4_WOsX5-pFz-wE&m=lSWqRRHJwvE-UIMBBRwdbuJgI1o8j0wFHWZTaIqpXPVskFzUdkVGBajwZ8cupfXC&s=cML7KnILov8z3aoqXQbb4nWiCDkEaIYBsrZXBLEri7A&e=> is published eight times a year.








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Psychonomic Socity
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