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 …

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 …

Using both group-and individual-level analyses, we explored the complex and dynamic
effects of basic visual features on aesthetic judgment. Specifically, the mediating influence of …

In this study, a large number of observers (N= 201) were asked to segment a collection of
outlines derived from line drawings of everyday objects (N= 88). This data set was then used …

A traditional line of work starting with the Gestalt school has shown that patterns vary in
strength and salience; a difference in “Perceptual goodness.” The Holographic weight of …

We propose a novel framework for perceptual grouping based on the idea of mixture
models, called Bayesian hierarchical grouping (BHG). In BHG, we assume that the …

Detection of (mirror) symmetry—which is abundantly present in the world—is often assumed
to be an integral part of the perceptual organization process that is applied to every visual …

Discussions of the foundations of perceptual inference have often centered on 2 governing
principles, the likelihood principle and the simplicity principle. Historically, these principles …

Perceptual organization is the neuro-cognitive process that enables us to perceive scenes
as structured wholes consisting of objects arranged in space. Simplicity in Vision explores …

Learning to read puts evolutionary established speech and visual object recognition
functions to novel use. As we previously showed, this leads to particular rearrangements …