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Johan Wagemans

Johan Wagemans

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Psychology

D-Index
74
Citations
20777
World Ranking
1885
National Ranking
25

Overview

Johan Wagemans is an established researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium. Their scholarly contributions primarily focus on neuroscience and psychology, with a significant emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their research spans multiple subfields including social psychology, computer vision and pattern recognition, and radiation.

The main topics covered in Wagemans's work include:

  • Aesthetic perception and analysis
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Color perception and design
  • Visual attention and saliency detection
  • Face recognition and perception
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Autism spectrum disorder research

Their publication record features contributions to a range of academic venues. Frequent publication platforms for their work include:

  • Journal of Vision
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Autism Research
  • Art & Perception
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Wagemans has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequently co-authoring with:

  • Claudia Damiano (12 joint papers)
  • Eline Van Geert (12 joint papers)
  • Laurie-Anne Sapey-Triomphe (11 joint papers)
  • Derya Soydaner (9 joint papers)
  • A. Krása (9 joint papers)

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • "Video assistant referees (VAR): The impact of technology on decision making in association football referees," 2020, Journal of Sports Sciences
  • "A sprinkle of emotions vs a pinch of crossmodality: Towards globally meaningful sonic seasoning strategies for enhanced multisensory tasting experiences," 2020, Journal of Business Research
  • "Visual affects: Linking curiosity, Aha-Erlebnis, and memory through information gain," 2021, Cognition
  • "Associative learning under uncertainty in adults with autism: Intact learning of the cue-outcome contingency, but slower updating of priors," 2021, Autism
  • "Priors Bias Perceptual Decisions in Autism, But Are Less Flexibly Adjusted to the Context," 2020, Autism Research

This body of work demonstrates engagement with interdisciplinary topics involving perception, cognition, and multisensory integration, as well as specific investigations into autism spectrum disorders. Their collaborations and publication venues further illustrate a focus on understanding perceptual and cognitive processes in both typical and clinical populations.

Best Publications

  • A Century of Gestalt Psychology in Visual Perception I. Perceptual Grouping and Figure-Ground Organization

    Johan Wagemans;James H. Elder;Michael Kubovy;Stephen E. Palmer

  • Precise minds in uncertain worlds: Predictive coding in autism.

    Sander Van de Cruys;Kris Evers;Ruth Van der Hallen;Lien Van Eylen

  • A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: II. Conceptual and theoretical foundations.

    Johan Wagemans;Jacob Feldman;Sergei Gepshtein;Ruth Kimchi

  • Detection of visual symmetries

    Johan Wagemans

  • Global processing takes time: A meta-analysis on local-global visual processing in ASD.

    Ruth Van der Hallen;Kris Evers;Katrien Brewaeys;Wim Van den Noortgate

  • Inferotemporal neurons represent low-dimensional configurations of parameterized shapes.

    Hans Op de Beeck;Johan Wagemans;Rufin Vogels

  • Putting reward in art: A tentative prediction error account of visual art

    Sander Van de Cruys;Johan Wagemans

  • Characteristics and models of human symmetry detection

    Johan Wagemans

  • Grouping by Proximity and Multistability in Dot Lattices: A Quantitative Gestalt Theory

    Michael Kubovy;Johan Wagemans

  • Perceived Shape Similarity among Unfamiliar Objects and the Organization of the Human Object Vision Pathway

    Hans P. Op de Beeck;Katrien Torfs;Johan Wagemans

  • On the Lawfulness of Grouping by Proximity

    Michael Kubovy;Alex O. Holcombe;Johan Wagemans

  • Cognitive flexibility in autism spectrum disorder: Explaining the inconsistencies?

    Lien Van Eylen;Bart Boets;Jean Steyaert;Kris Evers

  • Motor Learning with Augmented Feedback: Modality-Dependent Behavioral and Neural Consequences

    Renaud Ronsse;Veerle Puttemans;James Peter Coxon;Daniel J Goble

  • The Oxford handbook of perceptual organization

    Johan Wagemans

  • The role of vertical mirror symmetry in visual shape detection.

    Bart Machilsen;Maarten Pauwels;Johan Wagemans

  • Decision-making skills, role specificity, and deliberate practice in association football refereeing.

    Peter Catteeuw;Werner Helsen;Bart Gilis;Johan Wagemans

  • A review of behavioural and electrophysiological studies on auditory processing and speech perception in autism spectrum disorders

    Birgitt Haesen;Bart Boets;Johan Wagemans

  • Is neuroimaging measuring information in the brain

    Lee de-Wit;Lee de-Wit;Lee de-Wit;David Alexander;Vebjørn Ekroll;Johan Wagemans

  • Recognizing biological motion and emotions from point-light displays in autism spectrum disorders

    Evelien Nackaerts;Johan Wagemans;Werner Helsen;Stephan P. Swinnen

  • Putting the art in artificial: Aesthetic responses to computer-generated art.

    Rebecca Chamberlain;Caitlin Mullin;Bram Scheerlinck;Johan Wagemans

  • Global Processing Takes Time: A Meta-Analysis on Local-Global Visual Processing in ASD

    Ruth Van der Hallen;Wim Van den Noortgate;Johan Wagemans;Kris Evers

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