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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#001A69;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Special Collection: 3D Object Perception and Recognition in Biological
Vision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:#D9EEFF"><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#001F83;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Submission open<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:#D9EEFF"><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#001F83;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Submission deadline: December 31, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Guest Editors:<br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#236FA1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Charles Leek PhD</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, <i>University
of Liverpool/University of Southampton, UK</i><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#236FA1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">William Hayward PhD</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, <i>Lingnan
University, Hong Kong</i><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#236FA1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Irene Reppa PhD</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, <i>University
of Swansea, UK</i><br>
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#236FA1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dietmar Heinke PhD</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, <i>University
of Birmingham, UK</i><u><br>
</u></span><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#236FA1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Filipe Cristino PhD</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, <i>Nottingham
Trent University, UK</i><u><br>
</u></span><b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#236FA1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kate Storrs PhD</span></b><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">, <i>University
of Auckland, NZ</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The perception and recognition of three-dimensional (3D) object shape is a fundamental function of the human vision system that underpins much of our
ability to understand and interact with the environment. It is achieved for the most part within a few hundred milliseconds of stimulus onset, and to a high level of accuracy, despite variation in sensory input caused by changes in factors such as object viewpoint,
occlusion, image size, spatial location, colour, texture, shadow, and illumination. The remarkable ease and robustness of 3D object processing belies the complexity of the perceptual and neurobiological mechanisms that make it possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In recent years, considerable research effort has focussed on the perceptual processing of specific categories of visual stimuli such as faces. In
contrast, in fields such as computer vision and robotics, the development of efficient adaptive 3D object processing and image classification systems remains at the forefront of activity. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">The aim of this Special Issue is to encourage a renewed vigour to research on 3D object perception and recognition in biological vision. We invite novel
research contributions that address <u>any aspect</u> concerning the perceptual and neurobiological processes that support 3D object processing (including, for example, the perception of object shape features, texture, colour and other related object attributes,
image segmentation, feature binding and 3D object recognition). We particularly encourage papers that employ multi-methods approaches which could include psychophysics, computational modelling, eye tracking, functional brain imaging, electrophysiology, brain
stimulation and studies of brain-damaged patients with development or acquired disorders of 3D object perception and recognition. Papers that <u>solely</u> investigate the processing of other stimulus categories (e.g., faces) must show how they clearly advance
theoretical models of 3D object processing and recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Submissions will be peer-reviewed by experts in the relevant field(s). As standard, contributions will be subject to i-Perception's usual <a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/i-perception/journal202441#APC"><span style="color:#046FF8">open-access
publication charges,</span></a> but financial assistance is available for authors of quality submissions with limited funding - please contact the editors outlining your circumstances if this applies. For further details concerning guidelines for authors see
our submission guidelines <a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/i-perception/journal202441#submission-guidelines"><span style="color:#046FF8">here</span></a>. Individual papers in the Special Collection will be published as soon as they are accepted and
ready for publication. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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