Very sad to hear that Michael Kubovy passed away on 21 August 2025.
It is a great loss to perceptual science. His book "The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art" remains unparalleled.
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Our conference starts tomorrow! And what a great start it will be. Check out these workshops — free for both conference attendees and non-attendees!
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Kudos to Andrea Sella for taking a stand against @royalsociety.org’s inaction over Elon Musk FRS
indeed, indeed, see here doi.org/10.1177/0301...
Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.
"... the best thing to do is to come back to the lab, meet a few times a day in the coffee room, and have all those discussions that we used to have"
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New editorial: The coffee room and the future of perception research
By Frans A.J. Verstraten
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Very proud of my grad student David Yu who not only won the design competition for this year’s Vision Sciences Society website banner, but also the T-shirt design competition for the upcoming annual conference in St.Pete’s Beach Florida.
Do you have some exciting results on 3D object perception and recognition?
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