[FieldTrip] Special Issue: Objects: from visual features to structure, meaning, and action

[Joseph Brooks]

Dear Colleagues,

We are seeking submissions to a special issue on "Objects: from visual
features to structure, meaning, and action" to be published in the
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. We welcome submissions using
EEG methods. Please see full details below. If you would like to have an
informal discussion about a potential submission, please contact one of the
guest editors (details below). Happy to discuss deadlines where these pose
an issue.

All the best,

Joe

*Objects: from visual features to structure, meaning, and action*
Editors: Sara Spotorno (Durham University) and Joseph L Brooks (Keele
University)

Objects are important perceptual units in our subjective visual experience
that play a critical role in guiding action and attention and understanding
the meaning/semantics of scenes. A long-standing and important issue in
visual cognition concerns how structured object representations are
computed from incomplete and unsegmented visual input. In particular,
debate has focused on to what extent object formation depends primarily on
local features of the input (e.g., perceptual grouping, feature salience)
or whether global and non-image conditions (e.g., selective attention,
scene memory, predictions and the spatial and temporal contexts in which
objects are embeded) also play substantial roles in object formation.
Resolving this issue and others are important for building models of human
object perception and informing fast-moving developments in human
perception in demanding situations (e.g., medical image perception),
computer vision, virtual/augmented reality, and other applied domains. To
advance understanding of how objects are formed and their impact on
perception and cognition, this special issue invites empirical work on
object perception from across all levels of analysis (e.g., from sensory
processing to semantics), theoretical frameworks, and experimental methods
(e.g., behaviour, imaging, eye-tracking, brain stimulation, computational
modelling). All submissions must make clear how the work addresses
psychological (including neuroscientific) theories of object perception. We
encourage submissions which include interdisciplinary collaborations
between experimental psychology and other disciplines.

We strongly encourage open science practices including sharing of raw data,
experimental materials, analysis scripts, and pre-registration. This
special issue has made available an option for registered reports. Authors
wishing to use the registered reports option are strongly encouraged to
make early submissions to make the overall timeline feasible. Potential
authors are welcome to contact the editorial team to discuss submissions in
advance if there are any questions about eligibility.

*Registered Report Submissions Deadline:*
*This deadline has now passed

*Standard Submissions Deadline:*
Standard Submission Deadline: 30 June 2025
Initial Decisions: within 2 months

*Deadline for Final Decisions on Manuscripts:* 31 December 2025

*Questions? Email the Guest Editors:*
Sara Spotorno (Durham University, UK) - sara.spotorno at durham.ac.uk
Joseph L Brooks (Keele University, UK) – j.l.brooks at keele.ac.uk

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Dr Joseph L Brooks
Dean of Research, Faculty of Natural Sciences
School of Psychology | Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK ST5 5BG
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