<fontfamily><param>Times</param><bigger><bigger>Hi Hoover,
Could you please post this to CVNet for me.
Thanks,
Dan
***** REMINDER - JUNE 1 DEADLINE *****
Call for Papers
for a Special Issue of Visual Cognition on
"Change Blindness and Visual Memory"
Guest Editor
Daniel J. Simons
Harvard University
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.
Brief empirical reports are particularly encouraged.
The deadline for submissions is June 1, 1998, for publication in 1999.
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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