Symmetry-Related Activity in Mid-Level Vision
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2018) | Viewed by 27555
Special Issue Editors
Interests: visual perception; symmetry; attention; multisensory integration; mirrors
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Interests: empirical aesthetics; symmetry perception; velocity perception; smooth pursuit eye movements; prediction-motion tasks
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, there has been substantial progress in understanding the neural basis of symmetry processing and perception. There have been contributions from psychophysics, neuroimaging, and cognitive neuroscience. For example, neural activation in response to the presence of symmetry in an image appears to be automatic. Nevertheless, many questions regarding the perception of symmetry remain.
On 9 June, a workshop on Neuroscience of Symmetry was held in Liverpool. The one-day meeting brought together many of the leading scientists working on symmetry perception and neuroscience, and was supported by the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). From the workshop, and from other work in the field, we intend to generate a series of contributions to a Special Issue in the journal Symmetry.
The Special Issue is open to submissions of previously-unpublished experimental and prospective works, extended articles and review papers on the following and related topics:
Visual perception of symmetry
Brain activity in response to regularity
Formal models of symmetry and global shape processing
Neuroimaging studies of symmetry
Comparative studies of symmetry
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Dr. Marco Bertamini
Dr. Alexis Makin
Dr. Zaira Cattaneo
Guest Editors
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