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There would be no Visual Cognition without Glyn Humphreys. Glyn founded this journal almost a quarter of a century ago, in 1994. In his first editorial he expressed his vision for the future, pointing out exponential growth in cognitive research and the need for a journal focusing on high-level vision; a journal for topics such as object perception and face recognition, mental imagery and spatial thinking, visual attention, reading and eye movement control, and the interaction between vision and action. The first volume carried papers by Gordon Shulman on the role of cognitive control in perceiving rotation, Lana Trick and Zenon Pylyshyn on visual enumeration, Rob Ward with Susan Goodrich and Jon Driver on how grouping affects visual extinction, and Tim Brennen on face perception. Ever since, the journal has filled a muchvalued niche. Glyn had a keen eye for where the field was heading, and what it needed …