Perception of material properties

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.08.006 0042-6989/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This Special Issue marks the second of two issues on the perception of materials and their properties, which together capture a snapshot of the diverse array of topics and approaches that make up the emerging field of material perception research. To aid the reader, we use this editorial to provide a brief, thematically organized overview of the articles published in the two issues. Many of the articles span multiple domains, either methodologically or in terms of the research questions the studies address, so to some extent the organization is arbitrary, but we believe that grouping the articles in this way provides some insight into current and emerging trends in material perception research.