[visionlist] Call for papers: Special issue on the Probabilistic Nature of Perception and Cognition

[Omer Daglar Tanrikulu]

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder of the call for submissions to the Special Issue on The Probabilistic Nature of Perception and Cognition in New Ideas in Psychology.


This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for papers that focus on bridging critical gaps between the theoretical and the empirical merits of probabilistic theories of perception and cognition by assessing their explanatory value in Psychology.


Guest Editors:

  *   Ömer Dağlar Tanrikulu, University of New Hampshire
Email: OmerDaglar.Tanrikulu at unh.edu<mailto:OmerDaglar.Tanrikulu at unh.edu>

  *   Árni Kristjánsson, University of Iceland
Email: ak at hi.is<mailto:ak at hi.is>

The brain is often viewed as an information-processing system that infers the external environment from uncertain sensory input and stored information. This uncertainty, arising from both external and internal noise, suggests that these inferences are probabilistic. With advances in mathematical modeling, probabilistic approaches—particularly Bayesian models—have become a dominant framework in cognitive science. However, despite their popularity, there is no consensus on their psychological and neural validity. Experiments directly testing whether the brain represents information as probability distributions remain limited, and designing such studies has proven challenging. Additionally, these theories seem at odds with our everyday experience, as we do not perceive the world as a constantly shifting “Bayesian blur.”


New Ideas in Psychology is a journal for theoretical psychology in its broadest sense. We are looking for new and seminal ideas from within Psychology and other fields with something to bring to Psychology. We welcome presentations and criticisms of theory, background metaphysics, and fundamental issues of method, both empirical and conceptual. We emphasize the need for informed discussion of psychological theories to be interdisciplinary. Empirical papers are accepted in this special issue, but we expect them to focus on conceptual issues and be theoretically creative.


Submission deadline: April 30th, 2025

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​Submission Information

​For submission guidelines, please visit the call-for-papers page on the journal’s website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-ideas-in-psychology/about/call-for-papers#probabilistic-nature-of-perception-and-cognition
For questions and further information, please get in touch with the guest editors, Omer Daglar Tanrikulu and Arni Kristjansson.​



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