JOHAN WAGEMANS, PROF. DR.
Contact address:
University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Director
Brain & Cognition, Head of Research Division
Tiensestraat 102-box 3711
3000 Leuven
Tel: 0032 16 32 60 94
Fax: 0032 16 32 60 99
E-mail: johan.wagemans@psy.kuleuven.be
Website: www.gestaltrevision.be
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
1983
1984
1986
1991
BA Psychology, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
BA Philosophy, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
MA Psychology, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
PhD Experimental Psychology, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium
RESEARCH TOPICS
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Experimental psychology
Cognitive psychology
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
RESEARCH AREAS
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visual perception: perceptual organization, depth perception, shape perception, object
recognition
cognitive neuroscience: fMRI, EEG, psychopharmacology, neuropsychology
applications: visual design, architecture, visual arts, autism
MAJOR SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
1992
1992
1992
1993-1994
Sponsored by the Belgian Psychological Society as "Young Psychologist", 25th
International Congress of Psychology
PhD thesis – Psychology Prize, Royal Academy of Science
University of Leuven Research Council – most promising young researcher in the
Humanities
Fulbright Hayes Award, NATO Fellowship, Department of Psychology, University of
Virginia
2000
2010
2008-2015
2015-2022
I.S.I. Citation Classic Award (Belgium – Humanities and Behavioral Sciences) for
Wagemans, J. (1995). Detection of visual symmetries. Spatial Vision, 9, 9-32
Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts
Methusalem grant (Flemish Government): “Perceptual Organization in the context of
a dynamical and hierarchical visual brain”
Methusalem grant (Flemish Government): “Gestalts in vision, art, and autism”
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1. Van der Hallen, R., Evers, K., Brewaeys, K., Van den Noortgate, W., & Wagemans, J. (2015).
Global processing takes time: A meta-analysis on local-global visual processing in ASD.
Psychological Bulletin, in press.
2. Van de Cruys, S., Evers, K., Van der Hallen, R., Van Eylen, L., Boets, B., de-Wit, L., &
Wagemans, J. (2014). Precise minds in uncertain worlds: Predictive coding in autism.
Psychological Review, 121(4), 649-675. doi: 10.1037/a0037665
3. Wagemans, J., Elder, J. H., Kubovy, M., Palmer, S. E., Peterson, M. A., Singh, M., & von der
Heydt, R. (2012). A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: I. Perceptual grouping
and figure-ground organization. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6), 1172-1217. doi:
10.1037/a0029333
4. Wagemans, J., Feldman, J., Gepshtein, S., Kimchi, R., Pomerantz, J. R., van der Helm, P., & van
Leeuwen, C. (2012). A century of Gestalt psychology in visual perception: II. Conceptual and
theoretical foundations. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6), 1218-1252. doi: 10.1037/a0029334
5. Koenderink, J. J., van Doorn, A. J., & Wagemans, J. (2012). Picasso in the mind’s eye of the
beholder: Three-dimensional filling-in of ambiguous line drawings. Cognition, 125, 394-412.
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.07.019