Abstract In 1912, Max Wertheimer published his paper on phi motion, widely recognized as
the start of Gestalt psychology. Because of its continued relevance in modern psychology …

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 …

The goal of our study is a better understanding of the role of vertical mirror symmetry in
perceptual grouping. With a simple psychophysical task and a set of controlled stimuli, we …

What makes an object the same persisting individual over time? Philosophers and
psychologists have both grappled with this question, but from different perspectives …

Objects are central in visual, auditory, and tactual perception. But what counts as a
perceptual object? I address this question via a structural unity schema, which specifies how …

Symmetry is an important and prominent feature of the visual world. It has been studied as a
basis for image segmentation and perceptual organization, but it also plays a role in higher …

We have previously demonstrated that the mere organization of some elements in the visual
field into an object attracts attention automatically. Here, we explored three different aspects …

The human visual system reliably extracts shape information from complex natural scenes in
spite of noise and fragmentation caused by clutter and occlusions. A fast, feedforward sweep …

While the objects of olfaction are intuitively individuated by reference to the ordinary objects
from which they arise, this intuition does not accurately capture the complex nature of smells …

Many authors have posited an “object file” system, which underlies perceptual selection and
tracking of objects. Several have proposed that this system internalizes principles specifying …