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Presentations (Selection)


Van Lier, R., Leeuwenberg, E. and Van der Helm, P. (1992). The perceptual complexity of pattern interpretations: 
Information + Concidence + virtuality. European Conference on Visual Perception, Pisa, Italy.

Van Lier, R., Van der Helm, P., & Leeuwenberg, E. (1993). Global and local completions in visual occlusion. 
European Conference on Visual Perception, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Van Lier, R., Van der Helm, P., & Leeuwenberg, E. (1994). Multiple completions in visual occlusion. 
Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology. Sarasota, Florida (USA).

Van Lier, R. (1994). Recent developments within the Structural Information Theory. University of California, Berkeley, California (USA).

Van Lier, R. (1994). Perceived completions are not alone. Symposium on perception and cognition. Trieste, 
Italy.

Van Lier, R. (1994). Neueste Forschungsergebnisse und -vorschläge der Strukturellen Informationstheorie. Leipzig, Germany. (Invited talk)

Van Lier, R. (1994). Global and local aspects of visual occlusion. Workshop on the Structural Information Theory. Leipzig, Germany. (Invited talk)

Van Lier, R. (1995). Global and local aspects in visual completion. Leuven, Belgium. (Invited talk)

Van Lier, R., Leeuwenberg, E., Van der Helm, P. (1995) In support of structural hierarchy in visual shape. 
Symposium on phenomena and architectures of cognitive dynamics, Leipzig, Germany. (Invited talk)

Van Lier, R., & Wagemans J. (1996). Regularity, proximity and color assimilation. Workshop on Short-term 
storage and processing in human cognition: Dynamic characteristics and neural mechanisms. Leipzig, 
Germany. (Invited)

Van Lier, R., & Wagemans J. (1997). 'Perception' of non-visible object parts: A mental rotation study. 
Annual Meeting of the Belgian Psychological Society. Brussels, Belgium.

Van Lier, R., & Wagemans J. (1997). Regularity versus proximity: Color assimilation effects. Annual 
meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 
USA.

Van Lier, R., & Wagemans J. (1997). Global and local completions of self-occluded object parts. 
Pre-Psychonomics workshop on object perception and memory (OPAM). Philadelphia, USA.

Van Lier, R. (1997). Global and Local object completions. Bi-annual conference of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society. Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.

Van Lier, R. (1997). Simplicity of visual shape: A structural information approach. Bi-annual conference of the Netherlands Psychonomic Society. Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. (Invited, 'Award Lecture', bi-annual PhD thesis competition.)

Van Lier, R. (1998). Completion of self-occluded object parts. Symposium ‘Visual Perception of Structure’. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Invited talk)

Van Lier, R. & Wagemans J. (1998). Physical connectedness versus representational unity. Cognitive Science meeting. Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Van Lier, R. (1999). Investigations at the edge of amodal completion. European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy.

Van Lier, R. (2000). On the role of structural aspects in object perception. Joint NWO/NSC-Taiwan workshop on cognitive science.  Arnhem, The Netherlands. (Invited talk)

Van Lier, R. (2000). Effects of object-based transformations on imagined object views. European Conference on Visual Perception. Groningen, the Netherlands.

Van Lier, R. (2000). Toward an Integration of viewpoint dependent and viewpoint independent aspects in object perception. 
Workshop on Perceptual grouping and 3-D object Peception: Psychophysics and Bayesian modelling  (Invited talk).

Van Lier, R. (2000). Visual Perception: A Border-Crossing Enterprise. Nijmegen, The Netherlands 
(Invited, Award Lecture, yearly gathering of the NEU-Universities: Nijmegen, Twente, Leuven, Osnabrück, Münster, Dortmund)

Van Lier, R. (2001). A double neon colour illusion. Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands. (Biennial conference of the Dutch Psychonomic Society).

Van Lier, R. (2002). 2D image regularity versus 3D object regularity: effects of  symmetry and repetition in folded bands. European Conference on Visual Perception. Glasgow, UK.

Van Lier, R., Csatho, A. Puts, M (2003). Comparing distortions induced by luminance gradients. European Conference on Visual Perception. Paris, France.

Van Lier, R., Csatho, A. (2003). Dancing Shapes. Trieste Symposium on Perception and Cognition. Trieste, Italy.

Van Lier, R. (2004). Colour and Form. Lecture series in collaboration with Ch. de Weert at the new Bulgarian University (Summerschool Cognitive Science), Bulgary, Sofia. (Invited).

Van Lier, R. (2004). Interpretations of visual patterns. Utrecht. The Netherlands (Invited talk).

Van Lier, R., Wit, T., Koning, A. (2004). Effects of (mis-)alignment of physical and illusory contours. European Conference on Visual Perception. Budapest, Hungary.

Van Lier, R. (2005). From images to interpretation. CWI, Amsterdam. The Netherlands (Invited talk).

Van Lier, R., Wit, T., Koning, A. (2005). (Con-)fusing contours. European Conference on Visual Perception. La Coruna, Spain

Van Lier, R. (2005). Filling in "les compléments amodeaux". Michotte symposium, Leuven,  Belgium  (Invited talk).

Van Lier, R. & Vergeer, M. (2006). Catching patches. Best illusion of the year competition. Sarasota, Florida, (USA).

Van Lier, R. & Vergeer, M.  (2006). Catching patches: Filling-in between edges. European Conference on Visual Perception. St. Petersburg, Russia.

Van Lier, R. (2006). Illusions & Interpretations. Dag van de Perceptie, TNO, Soesterberg. The Netherlands.

Van Lier, R & Vergeer, M. (2007). Filling in the afterimage after the image. European Conference on Visual Perception. Arezzo, Italy.

Van Lier, R & Vergeer, M. (2008). Filling in the afterimage after the image. Best illusion of the year competition. Naples, Florida, (USA).

Van Lier, R., Vergeer, M., & Anstis  (2008). Mixing in the afterimage colors. European Conference on Visual Perception. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 

Van Lier, R. (2009). Morphing morphing faces. European Conference on Visual Perception. Regensburg, Germany.

Van Lier, R. (2010). Edges of Filling-in. Symposium on Perception and Cognition. Trieste, Italy.

Van Lier, R. (2010). Filling in the gaps. Nijmegen-Koln meeting on retinal diseases (Invited talk).

Van Lier, R. (2011). Illusory vision: modal versus amodal. Day of Perception. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 

Van Lier, R. (2011). Illusory vision. University of Leuven. Leuven, Belgium (Invited talk).

Van Lier, R., & Koning, A. (2011). The more-or-less morphing face illusion. Best illusion of the year competition. Naples, Florida, (USA). 

Van Lier, R. & Hazenberg, S.J. (2011) . Afterimage watercolors. European Conference on Visual Perception. Toulouse, France.

 

A few published conference abstracts (as from 2005)

- De Weert, Ch.M.M., Koning, A, & Van Lier, R. (2005). Context effects in assimilation and contrast. 
 
Perception, 34S, 100B 
- De Wit, T.C.J., Schlooz, W. A. J. M., Hulstijn, W., & van Lier, R. (2005).
Visual completion in children  with  pervasive developmental  disorder: Effects of shape complexity.  Journal of Vision, 5(8), 296a 
- De Wit, T., Bauer, M., Oostenveld, R., Fries, P. & Van Lier, R. (2005) Contextual influences in amodal completion: Evidence from    magnetic brain responses. Perception, 34S, 165. 
- Koning, A. & Van Lier, R. (2005) In search for segmentation. 
Journal of Vision, 5(8), 957a. 
- Lommertzen, J, Meulenbroek, R. Van Lier, R., & Bekkering, H. (2005).
Constant effects of the rod-and-frame  illusion on delayed    
  perceptuomotor tasks.  Perception, 34S, 244. 
- Van Lier, R., De Wit, T.C.J., & Koning, A (2005) (Con-)fusing contours.  Perception, 34S, 166A. 
- Vergeer, M & Van Lier, R. (2005). Flash-induced fading: Dependence on colour and shape similarity.  Perception, 34S, 210
- De Wit, T.C.J., Vrins, S.,  Dejonckheere, P., Van Lier, R. (2006). Form perception of partly occluded shapes  in infants. 
  Perception, 35S,  92. 
- Lommertzen, J., Meulenbroek, R., Van Lier, R. (2006). Grasping completions: Towards a new paradigm. Perception, 35S, 150. 
- VanLier, R., Vergeer, M. (2006). Catching Patches: Filling-in between edges. Perception, 35S,  47. 
- Vergeer, M.L.T., Von Schmid, J.C.M., Van Lier, R. (2006). Change Blindness: Effects of changing the  location of change. 
  Perception,  35S, 162. 
- Vrins, S.,  De Wit, T.C.J., Van Lier, R. (2006).Amodal completion of natural objects: Effects of material properties. 
Perception, 35S, 107.
- De Wit, T.C.J., Van Lier, R., Swinkels, S., Buitelaar, J. (2007).
Visual Scanning in children with autic spectrum disorder: The role of
symmetry.  Perception, 36S, 139. 
- Van Lier, R., & Vergeer, M.L.T. (2007). Filling in the afterimage after the image. Perception, 36S, 200-201. 
- Vrins, S., Van Lier, R., & De Wit, T.C.J. (2007). Do eye-movements anticipate the most likely outcome of conditional events?   Perception, 36S, 32. 
- Vergeer, M.L.T., & Van Lier, R. (2007). Breaking down the Benary Cross. Perception, 36S, 83. 
- Vergeer, M.L.T., & Van Lier, R. (2007). Similarity in orientation triggers the unseen to be seen during dichoptic suppression. 
Journal of
  Vision 7(9): 804, 804a.
- Anstis, S., Vergeer, M., & van Lier, R. (2008).
Color averaging linked to contours, textures and orientation. 
  Journal of Vision, 8(6):1102, 1102a. 
- Vergeer, M., Anstis, S., & van Lier, R. (2008). Spatial averaging of afterimages between contours. Journal of Vision, 8(6):589, 589a. 
- Van Lier, R., Vergeer, M., & Anstis  (2008). Mixing in the afterimage colors. Perception, 37S, 84. 
- Vergeer, M.L.T., & Van Lier, R. (2008).
Feature-selective inhibition during binocular rivalry. Perception, 37S, 142-143.
- Van Lier R. (2009). Morphing morphing faces. Perception, 38S, 80- Van Lier R. (2009). Morphing morphing faces. Perception, 38S, 80.  
- Atsma, J., Koning, A., & Van Lier, R. (2011). Tracking bouncing balls: Default linear motion extrapolation.
Perception, 40S, 90.
Hazenberg, S.J., Jongsma, M., Koning, A., & Van Lier, R. (2011).
Differential effects of learning in amodal completion.  
  Perception, 40S, 125.   
Ter Horst, A.C., Van Lier, R., & Steenbergen, B. (2011). Action simulation in peripersonal space. Perception 40S, 225. 
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Van Lier R., & Hazenberg, S.J. (2011). Afterimage watercolours. Perception, 40S, 200.   
Vrins, S., Koning, A., Atsma, J., & Van Lier, R. (2011).  Moving in the same direction: Allocation of attention to occluded targets.
  Perception, 40S, 108.











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