Now out in Open Mind! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

“How is an image of a chair any different from an image of an image of a chair? … The mistake (if Gestalt psychology is correct) lies… in the erroneous view that images are ‘distributions of color patches’ in the way in which photographs are.” -Hilary Putnam

Adobe Research Principal Scientist Aaron Hertzmann won the Computer Graphics Achievement award by @SIGGRAPH,one of the highest honors in the field! Learn about his new theory of perception, and his work at the intersection of art and computer graphics. adobe.ly/46iiX7X

Excited to see our paper "Episodic recombination and the role of time in mental travel" out in Philosophical Transactions. We're trying our hand at an update of the episodic recombination hypothesis as a form of compositional computation. Check it out: shorturl.at/REI8Y

Thirteenth Annual Essay Prize at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Topic: Representational format Length: 3000 words. Single spaced! Deadline: December 15, 2024.  Prize money: 3,000 Euros. More info: bencenanay.com

Toronto-London Perception Workshop, November 1-2, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100, University of Toronto. Organized in part by York's very own Jacob Beck and Kevin Lande.

Apply to York's graduate program in philosophy! (Please share widely.)

Congratulations Andrew Y. Lee !

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, Chaz Firestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

I got tenure! Now I get to tell people what I *really* think

#VSS2025 means #phiVis2025! come to our opening reception table for free wine (and good conversation)

packed house for #phivis2025!

Standing room only for #phiVis2025 #VSS2025