Professional
Education
- 1968--1974:
Gymnasium-ß,
Menso Alting
College, Hoogeveen
- 1974--1981:
Applied
Mathematics, University of
Twente
- 1979:
Bachelors
degree in Fundamental Mathematics
- 1981:
Masters
degree in Numerical Mathematics
(Cum
Laude)
- 1983--1988:
Cognitive
Psychology, Radboud
University Nijmegen
- 1988:
PhD degree in Social
Sciences (Cum Laude)
Research Experience and Positions (for
an overview
of research topics, see
Research)
- 1974--1981:
In total, 2 years of research trainings and internships, Department
of Applied
Mathematics, University of Twente
- 1983--1988:
PhD research, Department
of Cognitive Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen, in the Social
Science spearhead-project Structural Information Theory
funded
by the Netherlands Organization for
Scientific Research
- 1989--1995:
Postdoctoral research,
Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI), Radboud
University Nijmegen, on two personal grants from the Radboud University
Nijmegen
- 1996--2000: Research
fellow, NICI,
Radboud University Nijmegen, on a personal grant from the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2001--2012:
Assistent professor at the Donders
Institute for
Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at the Radboud
University Nijmegen
- Since 2012:
Visiting professor at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology,
University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, supported by Methusalem grant METH/08/02 awarded to Prof. dr. J.
Wagemans for the research program Gestalt
ReVision
PhD Thesis (defended
December
12, 1988)
- Title: Accessibility
and Simplicity
of Visual Structures
- Contents:
- A
mathematical
formalization that characterizes visual
regularity
as being transparent holographic regularity
- A transparallel
algorithm that
computes
simplest codes of symbol strings with the same power as quantum
computers
- Supervisor:
Dr. E. L. J. Leeuwenberg
(Radboud
University Nijmegen)
- Promotors:
Prof. dr. A. Thomassen
(Radboud
University Nijmegen) and Prof. dr. C. Hoede (University of Twente)
Key Publications (for
a complete list
of publications, see
Publications)
- van der Helm,
P. A., & Leeuwenberg, E. L. J.
(1991).
Accessibility, a criterion for regularity and hierarchy in visual
pattern codes.
Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 35,
151--213.
Abstract
Full
text
- van der
Helm, P. A., & Leeuwenberg, E. L. J.
(1996).
Goodness of visual regularities: A nontransformational approach.
Psychological Review, 103, 429--456.
Abstract
Full
text
Follow-up
1 Follow-up 2
- van der
Helm, P. A. (2004).
Transparallel processing by hyperstrings.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
101 (30),
10862--10867.
Abstract
Full text
Appendices
- van der Helm, P. A. (2012).
Cognitive architecture of perceptual organization: From neurons to
gnosons.
Cognitive
Processing, 13, 13--40.
Abstract
Full text
Books
- Leeuwenberg, E. L. J., & van der Helm, P. A. (2013).
Structural
information
theory: The simplicity of visual form.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
More
info
- van
der Helm, P. A. (2013).
Simplicity in
vision: A
multidisciplinary account of perceptual organization.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
More
info
Editorship
- van der Helm,
P. A., van Lier, R.,
& Wagemans, J. (Eds.) (2003).
Visual Gestalt formation.
Acta Psychologica, 114, 211--398. (Special issue in honor of
Emanuel Leeuwenberg)
Contents
Editorial
Nominations
Invited Presentations
Acquisition
- PhD project
funded, with rank 1 of
100, by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
(1989)
- Personal
grants from the Radboud University Nijmegen
(1989,
1993)
- Personal
grant (1995) plus extension (1998) from
the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Huygens grant
from the Netherlands
Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education
(2000)
- Stipendium
from the Radboud University Nijmegen (2001)
- PhD projects
funded by the Donders
Centre for Cognition at the Radboud University Nijmegen (1996,
1998,
2004, 2007)
PhD Students
Peter
A. van der Helm 