CVNet - special issue; Visual Cognition; Change Blindness and

Color and Vision Network (cvnet@kirkham.ewind.com)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:58:37 -0800 (PST)

From: "Daniel J. Simons" <dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Call for papers

Hi Hoover,

Could you please post this call for papers on CVNET.

Thanks,

Dan

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Daniel J. Simons

Harvard University

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A central goal in the study object and scene perception is to
understand how visual information is integrated across views to provide
an stable, continuous experience of our environment. Research on
issues ranging from visual masking to priming across saccades to the
representation of spatial layout across views has addressed the issue
of what information is preserved from one view to the next. Recently,
research on visual memory for objects and scenes has led to striking
claims about the nature of the information that is and is not preserved
from one instant to the next. For example, studies of change blindness
have shown that striking changes to objects and scenes can go
undetected when they coincide with an eye movement, a flashed blank
screen, a blink, or an occlusion event. These studies suggest that
relatively little visual information about objects and scenes is
combined across views. Despite these failures of change detection,
observers somehow manage to experience a stable, continuous visual
environment. This special issue seeks to unite recent studies of
change blindness with studies of visual integration to better
understanding the nature of our representations and the richness of our
visual memory. Contributions are invited on these and related topics
and can take the form of empirical reports or theoretical syntheses.=20
Brief empirical reports are particularly encouraged.

The deadline for submissions is June 1, 1998, for publication in 1999.=20
Please send four copies of papers in APA format to:

Daniel J. Simons

Department of Psychology

Harvard University

33 Kirkland Street, Room 820

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

USA

Inquiries can be sent via email to dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu

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Daniel J. Simons

Assistant Professor phone: (617) 495-5387

Psychology Department fax: (617) 495-3728

Harvard University dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu

33 Kirkland St., Room 820 http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~dsimons

Cambridge, MA 02138

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