<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpaaea9da9x_elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Please find below the call for submission to a Special Issue in <i>New Ideas in Psychology</i> on</span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i>Probabilistic nature of perception and cognition.</i></b></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><br></i></b></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0px 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">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. <br><br></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Guest Editors:</b></span></p><ul data-ogsb="white" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><li data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="font-family: Aptos, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ömer Dağlar Tanrikulu, University of New Hampshire<br>Email: <a href="mailto:OmerDaglar.Tanrikulu@unh.edu" id="ydpaaea9da9OWA11158d53-536a-22fa-c2b3-5f65b32bb131" class="ydpaaea9da9x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OmerDaglar.Tanrikulu@unh.edu</a><br><br></span></li><li data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Árni Kristjánsson, University of Iceland<br>Email: <a href="mailto:ak@hi.is" id="ydpaaea9da9OWA9e13f448-079b-97ac-e2af-4d28a85d431f" class="ydpaaea9da9x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" data-linkindex="1" data-ogsc="" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ak@hi.is</a></span></li></ul><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0px 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></p><div><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span></div><div><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Within cognitive psychology, the brain is considered an information-processing system, making inferences about the external environment from sensory input and stored information. However, the available information incorporates uncertainty due to external and internal noise. This inherent uncertainty in perceptual and cognitive representations suggests that the nature of these inferences is probabilistic. With advances in mathematical modeling, such probabilistic (esp. Bayesian) approaches have become a unifying framework for studying human cognition, and are becoming increasingly dominant in contemporary research in perceptual psychology.</span></div><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br></span><p></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0px 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite the popularity of the assumption that perception/cognition represents the environment as an array of probabilistically weighted options, there has yet to be a consensus on the psychological and neural validity of such models. Experiments that directly investigate whether the brain represents information as probability distributions are currently limited. Designing experiments to test the core assumptions of such probabilistic accounts has proved challenging. The high computational complexity of probabilistic calculations can be regarded as a challenge to the feasibility of the brain implementing such computations. Even if the brain approximates such complex computations, the exact nature of this approximation is unknown. These probabilistic theories appear to clash with our everyday visual experience since we don't perceive the world as a constantly shifting “Bayesian blur”.<br><br></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0px 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>New Ideas in Psychology</i> 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.<br><br></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Submission deadline:</b> November 30, 2024</span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Submission Information</b></span></p><p data-ogsb="white" style="margin: 0in; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"></p><div><span class="ydpaaea9da9x_elementToProof" data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For submission guidelines, please visit the call-for-papers page on the journal’s website: </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-ideas-in-psychology/about/call-for-papers#probabilistic-nature-of-perception-and-cognition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-ideas-in-psychology/about/call-for-papers#probabilistic-nature-of-perception-and-cognition</a><br><br></div><span class="ydpaaea9da9x_elementToProof" data-ogsc="black" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 14pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For questions and further information, please get in touch with the guest editors, Omer Daglar Tanrikulu and Arni Kristjansson.</span><div><br></div><div id="ydpd7522dc7enhancr_card_9465145618" class="ydpd7522dc7yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydpd7522dc7yahoo-link-enhancr-not-allow-cover ydpd7522dc7ymail-preserve-class ydpd7522dc7ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:"YahooSans VF", YahooSans, "OpenSans VF", "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-ideas-in-psychology/about/call-for-papers#probabilistic-nature-of-perception-and-cognition" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/new-ideas-in-psychology/about/call-for-papers#probabilistic-nature-of-perception-and-cognition" style="text-decoration:none !important;color:#000 !important" class="ydpd7522dc7yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table border="0" class="ydpd7522dc7card-wrapper ydpd7522dc7yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width:400px"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table border="0" class="ydpd7522dc7card ydpd7522dc7yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" class="ydpd7522dc7card-info ydpd7522dc7yahoo-ignore-table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:#fff;position:relative;z-index:2;width:100%;max-width:400px;border-radius:0 0 2px 2px;border-top:1px solid rgb(224, 228, 233)"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:16px 0 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0 0 0 2px"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:"YahooSans VF", YahooSans, "OpenSans VF", "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;border-radius:0 0 2px 0"><h2 class="ydpd7522dc7card-title" style="font-size: 14px; 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