Our first review article (Wagemans et al., 2012) on the occasion of the centennial
anniversary of Gestalt psychology focused on perceptual grouping and figure–ground …

Much of perception, learning and high-level cognition involves finding patterns in data. But
there are always infinitely many patterns compatible with any finite amount of data. How …

Visual aesthetics has been shown to critically affect a variety of constructs such as perceived
usability, satisfaction, and pleasure. Given the importance of visual aesthetics in human …

Are people rational? This question was central to Greek thought; and has been at the heart
of psychology, philosophy, rational choice in social sciences, and probabilistic approaches …

Which stimulus and person characteristics determine aesthetic appreciation? For many
centuries, philosophers and scientists have been trying to solve this complex puzzle …

The recognition that human minds/brains are finite systems with limited resources for
computation has led some researchers to advance the Tractable Cognition thesis: Human …

The idea of visual complexity, the history of its measurement, and its implications for
behavior are reviewed, starting with structuralism and Gestalt psychology at the beginning of …

A theory is presented that attempts to answer two questions. What visual contents can an
observer consciously access at one moment? Answer: only one feature value (eg, green) …

The rational analysis method, first proposed by John R. Anderson, has been enormously
influential in helping us understand high-level cognitive processes. The Probabilistic Mind is …

The authors present a theory of stochastic interactive parallel processing with special
emphasis on channel interactions and their relation to system capacity. The approach is …