2005: Dedre Gentner

2004: E. Clark

2003 P. Johnson-Laird

2002: R. Jackendoff

2001: T. Deacon

2000: S. Palmer

1999: M. Posner

1998: M. Bowerman

1997: R. Schank

1996: J. Bruner

1995: D. Dennett

1994: N. Chomski

• April 4, 2000: "Reversing the Rainbow: Reflections on Color and Consciousness"
  
  and
   
• April 5, 2000: "Rethinking Perceptual Organization"

"Reversing the Rainbow:
Reflections on Color and Consciousness"

Stephen E. Palmer is Professor of Psychology and the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recent author of the textbook Vision Science: From Photons to Phenomenology. Other works that he has authored or co- authored include: "Of Color and Consciousness", "Rethinking Perceptual Organization", "Reference Frames in the Perception of Spatial Structure", and "Modern Theories of Gestalt Perception". He has been the editor of the journal Cognitive Psychology and is editor of the Series in Cognitive Psychology, Bradford Books/MIT Press. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards

with the Cosponsorship of

Department of Psychology
Department of Communicative Disorders and Sciences
Department of English
English Language Institute
The School of Information Studies

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"Rethinking Perceptual Organization"

Gestalt principles of perceptual organization will be reconsidered from a modern perspective. Several new principles of grouping will be demonstrated, a new method to study them objectively will be prese