What We Bring to the Perceptual Table: Perceiver-Based Factors in Visual Perception

Dear Colleagues,

How do experience and knowledge shape what we see and how we see it? For decades, the debate has raged over whether visual perception is shaped by experience, knowledge, and other perceiver-based factors such as motivation, learning, preference, and emotion. This Special Issue aims to reframe this “whether or not” debate and instead embrace the complexity and variety of findings related to the influence of perceiver-based factors on visual perception. When assembled together, contributions to this Special Issue will paint a picture of a perceptual landscape, highlighting which aspects of perceptual processing may be open to such influences and which aspects may be immune to them. We invite articles looking at all aspects of visual processing, including, but not limited to, object recognition, perceptual organization, attention, and visual working memory.

Dr. Kim M. Curby
Dr. Thomas A. Carlson
Dr. Steven B. Most
Guest Editors

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