Neuroscience of Symmetry - workshop

Neuroscience of Visual Symmetry

Date: Friday 9th June 2017

Location: University of Liverpool campus

The workshop on the Neuroscience of Symmetry is a one-day meeting conceived as a round-table discussion, with national and international attendees. It is funded thanks to a Grant from the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS).

The event will start on the afternoon of Thursday 8th of June with the 3rd Visual Properties Driving Visual Preference workshop. Symmetry is a linking theme for both days.

In the last decade there has been substantial progress in understanding the neural basis of symmetry perception, although many questions still remain. This topic has been studied with behavioural techniques for over a century, and both psychologists and artists have wondered why symmetry is aesthetically appealing. This workshop brings together many of the leading scientists working on symmetry perception and neuroscience for a one-day workshop. This is a preliminary list of confirmed people:

Symmetry | Special Issue : Symmetry-Related Activity in Mid-Level Vision

Editors

Marco Bertamini
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK

Alexis Makin
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZA, UK

Zaira Cattaneo
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126, Milano, Italy

The workshop on Neuroscience of Symmetry brought together many of the leading scientists working on symmetry perception and neuroscience, and was supported by the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). From the workshop, and from other work in the field, we intend to generate a series of contributions to a Special Issue in the journal Symmetry.

The Special Issue is open to submissions of previously-unpublished experimental and prospective works, extended articles and review papers on the following and related topics:

Visual perception of symmetry
Brain activity in response to regularity
Formal models of symmetry and global shape processing
Neuroimaging studies of symmetry
Comparative studies of symmetry

Authors are asked to pay a fee of 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs) (Approx. 800 Pounds) per paper if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review.

Source: Symmetry | Special Issue : Symmetry-Related Activity in Mid-Level Vision