Santacà, Maria
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Learning & behavior
When seeing a visual image, humans prioritize the perception of global features, which is followed by the assessment of the local ones. This global precedence has been investigated using hierarchical stimuli that consist of a large, global shape formed by the spatial arrangement of small local shapes. Comparing non-human animals to humans, research...
Van der Hulst, Elisabeth van Heusden, Elle Wagemans, Johan Moors, Pieter
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Attention, perception & psychophysics
It has previously been shown that grouping by proximity is well described by a linear function relating the perceived orientation of a dot lattice to the ratio of the distances between the dots in the different orientations. Similarly, luminance influences how observers perceptually group stimuli. Using the dot lattice paradigm, it has been shown t...
van der Hulst, Elisabeth; 129173; van Heusden, Elle; Wagemans, Johan; 7347; Moors, Pieter;
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Nowack, Leonie Müller, Hermann J Conci, Markus
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Attention, perception & psychophysics
The present study investigated whether the integration of separate parts into a whole-object representation varies with the amount of available attentional resources. To this end, two experiments were performed, which required observers to maintain central fixation while searching in peripheral vision for a target among various distractor configura...
Schmid, Daniel Jarvers, Christian Neumann, Heiko
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Biological cybernetics
Advanced computer vision mechanisms have been inspired by neuroscientific findings. However, with the focus on improving benchmark achievements, technical solutions have been shaped by application and engineering constraints. This includes the training of neural networks which led to the development of feature detectors optimally suited to the appl...
Van Geert, Eline Bossens, Christophe Wagemans, Johan
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Behavior research methods
Do individuals prefer stimuli that are ordered or disordered, simple or complex, or that strike the right balance of order and complexity? Earlier research mainly focused on the separate influence of order and complexity on aesthetic appreciation. When order and complexity were studied in combination, stimulus manipulations were often not parametri...
Van Geert, Eline; 90621; Bossens, Christophe; Wagemans, Johan; 7347;
Do individuals prefer stimuli that are ordered or disordered, simple or complex, or that strike the right balance of order and complexity? Earlier research mainly focused on the separate influence of order and complexity on aesthetic appreciation. When order and complexity were studied in combination, stimulus manipulations were often not parametri...
van den Berg, Cedric P. Endler, John A. Papinczak, Daniel E. J. Cheney, Karen L.
Published in
The Journal of Experimental Biology
Summary: The speed with which triggerfish detect patterned stimuli cannot be explained by a single image statistic. The relationship between pattern statistics and animal behaviour is complex, and is likely to be distance dependent.
Loconsole, Maria Regolin, Lucia
Published in
Biology direct
Prime numbers have been attracting the interest of scientists since the first formulation of Euclid's theorem in 300 B.C. Nowadays, physicists and mathematicians continue to formulate new theorems about prime numbers, trying to comprehensively explain their articulated properties. However, evidence from biology and experimental psychology suggest t...
Pomè, Antonella Caponi, Camilla Burr, David Charles
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Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are thought to have a more local than global perceptual style. We used a novel paradigm to investigate how grouping-induced response biases in numerosity judgments depend on autistic-like personality traits in neurotypical adults. Participants judged the numerosity of clouds of dot-pairs connected by thin l...