23rd GTA Conference

The Kanizsa Lectures
1993-2023

01/1993
IRVIN ROCK “The Legacy of Gestalt Psychology”

02/1994
KEN NAKAYAMA “Visual Surface Representation: A Missing Link Between Early and High Level Vision”

03/1995
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN “A Critique of Pure Vision”

04/1996
PHILIP N. JOHNSON-LAIRD “Illusions in Reasoning”

05/1997
ALAN GILCHRIST “Visual Structure and Surface Color”

06/1998
HEINRICH H. BÜLTHOFF “Perception and Action: Controlling the Loop Using Virtual Realities”

07/1999
RICHARD L. GREGORY “The Phenomenal Science and Art of Perception”

08/2000
STEPHEN E. PALMER “Rethinking Perceptual Organization”

09/2001
ENNIO MINGOLLA “The Units of Vision”

10/2002
PATRICK CAVANAGH “Art and the Language of Vision”

11/2003
MICHAEL KUBOVY “Regular Patterns in Visual, Auditory and Aesthetic Perception”

12/2004
ELIZABETH S. SPELKE “What Makes Humans Smart”

13/2005
ALAN M. LESLIE “How the Brain Thinks About the Mind”

14/2006
MELVYN A. GOODALE “Visual Duplicity: Action without Perception in the Human Visual System”

15/2007
LOTHAR SPILLMANN “Perceptual Research for Beginners. A Journey Through the Vision Sciences”

16/2008
ANNE CUTLER “Native Listening”

17/2009
JAN J. KOENDERINK “Mind Into Space”

18/2010
JOHAN WAGEMANS “The Kanizsa Triangle as a Cornerstone of Vision Science”

19/2011
JAMES R. POMERANTZ “The Perception of Visual Configurations and Their Parts: A Theory of Basic Gestalts”

20/2012
ALFONSO CARAMAZZA “Objects, Actions, Words, and Brain”

21/2013
DEJAN TODOROVIĆ “Reality and Illusions: Effects of Context and Vantage Point in Visual Perception”

22/2014
BARBARA GILLAM “Grouping and Occlusion in Perception and Art”

23/2015
VITTORIO GALLESE “The Multimodal Nature of Visual Perception: Facts and Speculations”

24/2016
W. TECUMSEH FITCH “The Biology of Speech – 50 Years of Progress”

25/2017
TIM SHALLICE “How Disorders of Supervisory Processing Relate to the Overall Organisation of Mind”

26/2018
WALTER GERBINO “Perception and Past Experience 50 Years After Kanizsa’s (Im)possible Experiment”

27/2019
ROBERTO CASATI “Shadows in Vision”

28/2020
GIORGIO VALLORTIGARA “Of Chicks and Babies: How to Build a Social Brain”

29/2021
MICHAEL HERZOG “The Irreducibility of Vision”

30/2022
CHARLES SPENCE “On Crossmodal and Multisensory Gestalts:
Evidence and Application”

31/2023
PHILIP J. KELLMAN “From Fragments to Objects: Understanding Visual Completion in Object Perception”