[visionlist] Special Issue: Objects - from visual features to structure, meaning, and action

[Joseph Brooks]

Dear Colleagues,

We are seeking submissions to a special issue on "Objects: from visual
features to structure, meaning, and action" to be published in the
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Please see full details
below. If you would like to have an informal discussion about a potential
submission, please contact one of the guest editors (details below) or, if
you are attending ECVP, we are happy to try to meet up while here.

All the best,

Joe

*Objects: from visual features to structure, meaning, and action*

Editors: Sara Spotorno (Durham, UK) and Joseph L Brooks (Keele,UK)

Objects are important perceptual units in our visual experience, playing a
critical role in guiding attention, understanding, and action. A
long-standing and important issue in visual cognition concerns how
structured object representations are derived from unsegmented and often
incomplete visual input. Specifically, debate has focused on the extent to
which this depends primarily on local features of the input (e.g., feature
salience, perceptual grouping) or whether the spatial and temporal contexts
in which they are embedded (e.g., scenes, motion) and cognitive processes
(e.g., selective attention, memory, predictions) also substantially
contribute. Resolving this issue and others related to object formation is
important for building models of human perception and informing fast-moving
developments in demanding situations (e.g., medical image perception),
computer vision, virtual/augmented reality, and other applied domains. To
advance understanding of how viewers form and use object representations,
this special issue invites empirical work on object processing from across
all levels of analysis (e.g., from sensory aspects to semantics),
theoretical frameworks, and experimental methods (e.g., behaviour, imaging,
eye tracking, brain stimulation, computational modelling). All submissions
must make clear how the work addresses psychological (including
neuroscientific) theories of object processing. We welcome submissions
which include interdisciplinary collaborations between experimental
psychology and other disciplines.

We strongly encourage open science practices including sharing of raw data,
experimental materials, analysis scripts, and pre-registration. This
special issue has made available an option for registered reports. Authors
wishing to use the registered reports option are strongly advised to make
early submissions to ensure that the overall timeline is feasible.
Potential authors are welcome to contact the editorial team to discuss
submissions in advance if there are any questions about eligibility.

Proposed Timeline:
Call Opens: 23 August 2024

Registered Report Submissions:
Registered Report Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2024
Initial Decisions: within ~2 months

Standard Submissions:
Standard Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025
Initial Decisions: within 2-3 months

Deadline for Accepting Manuscripts: 30 September 2025

Questions? Email the Guest Editors:

Sara Spotorno (Durham University, UK): sara.spotorno at durham.ac.uk
Joseph L Brooks (Keele University, UK): j.l.brooks at keele.ac.uk

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*Dr Joseph L Brooks*
Dean of Research, Faculty of Natural Sciences
School of Psychology | Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK ST5 5BG
Tel: +44 (0) 1782 732963 | Email: j.l.brooks at keele.ac.uk | www.keele.ac.uk

Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/view/brookslab
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