[vslist] Call for Papers, Special Issue of Visual Cognition: Real World Scene Perception

[John M. Henderson]

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Visual Cognition
"Real World Scene Perception"

Guest Editor
John M. Henderson
Michigan State University

Cognitive scientists, vision scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists have 
recently come to realize that a host of unique theoretical and empirical 
issues arise in the study of natural, real-world scene perception. Many of 
these issues are related to the fact that real-world scenes are 
structurally and semantically constrained in important ways that are not 
yet fully understood. Open topics specific to real-world scene perception 
include the nature and rapid acquisition of scene gist, representation of 
spatial layout, flexible use of spatial scale, integration of scene 
information across eye movements, updating of scene views during movement, 
visual search for meaningful objects in scenes, scene recognition, scene 
context effects on object perception, scene representation in memory, 
allocation of attention including eye fixations during scene viewing, and 
the neural implementation of these representations and processes in the 
brain. This special issue seeks to bring together recent studies of these 
and related topics to increase our understanding of the nature of 
real-world scene perception. Because the study of real-world scene 
perception benefits from an interdisciplinary approach, contributions are 
encouraged from investigators using a variety of research methods including 
behavioral techniques, eyetracking, functional neuroimaging, and 
computational modeling. Contributions that integrate theory with empirical 
work are especially encouraged, as are brief empirical papers.

The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2003, for publication in 
spring of 2004.

Electronic submissions in pdf format are preferred, and should be sent to: 
john@cogsci.msu.edu.

Otherwise, paper submissions can be sent (five copies) to:

John M. Henderson
Cognitive Science Program
Psychology Research Building
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1117

All paper should be formatted according to APA style.

Inquiries can be made via email to john@cogsci.msu.edu.