From dsimons@wjh.harvard.eduSat Feb 7 02:14:14 1998 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:10:45 -0500 From: "Daniel J. Simons" <dsimons@wjh.harvard.edu> Subject: Call for Papers - please forward Hi all, I'm putting together a special issue of Visual Cognition on change blindness and visual memory (call for papers below). I hope you will consider submitting your recent work related to these topics. We will consider brief reports, longer empirical papers, or theoretical syntheses. All submissions will undergo the regular review process and those not included in the special issue may also be considered for regular issues of the journal. The deadline for submissions is June 1. If you have any questions about the issue, please feel free to send me email. Cheers, Dan p.s. Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested. My apologies if you receive this more than once or if you're not at all interested in this topic. =============================================== 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