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View article: An investigation of perceptual experience in hue-rotated Altered Reality
An investigation of perceptual experience in hue-rotated Altered Reality Open
View article: Poster Session: In search of Attention Restoration: does the statistical stability of natural images support enhanced visual cognition?
Poster Session: In search of Attention Restoration: does the statistical stability of natural images support enhanced visual cognition? Open
Stable visual ensemble statistics can support performance on a visual search task (e.g. Corbett and Melcher, 2014). Such results may indicate improvements in the efficiency of visual cognition in response to a more predictable environment.…
View article: Poster Session: Visual discomfort in the everyday environment
Poster Session: Visual discomfort in the everyday environment Open
Visual discomfort describes an aversive subjective experience characterised by perceptual distortions, blurred vision, diplopia, pain in the eyes, headache and/or nausea. Previous laboratory studies have found that levels of visual discomf…
View article: Contributed talks II: Colour-selective regions of visual cortex are responsive to the colour statistics of objects
Contributed talks II: Colour-selective regions of visual cortex are responsive to the colour statistics of objects Open
It has been suggested that objects are more likely to be warmer in colour, redder and more saturated than the background. Here, we investigate the colour statistics of objects, and the brain regions that are responsive to these statistics.…
View article: Contributed talks II: Environmental calibration of perceived white
Contributed talks II: Environmental calibration of perceived white Open
It has been proposed that colour perception is calibrated to the chromatic statistics of the environment. Here we investigate whether perceived white is calibrated to the chromatic statistics of the local current 'visual diet'. We compare …
View article: Poster Session: Measuring the limits of long-term adaptation to hue-rotated altered reality
Poster Session: Measuring the limits of long-term adaptation to hue-rotated altered reality Open
The visual system adapts to chromatic changes by altering its sensitivity to the environment. Research on chromatic adaptation under natural viewing has exposed observers to simple transformations using filters or lenses (Neitz et al.,2002…
View article: Effects of visual diet on colour discrimination and preference
Effects of visual diet on colour discrimination and preference Open
To what extent is perception shaped by low-level statistical regularities of our visual environments and on what time scales? We characterized the chromatic ‘visual diets’ of people living in remote rainforest and urban environments, using…
View article: The perceived beauty of art is not strongly calibrated to the statistical regularities of real-world scenes
The perceived beauty of art is not strongly calibrated to the statistical regularities of real-world scenes Open
View article: Effects of visual diet on color perception and aesthetics
Effects of visual diet on color perception and aesthetics Open
To what extent are perception and aesthetics shaped by low-level statistical regularities of our visual environments, and on what time scales? We characterized the chromatic statistics of the ‘visual diets’ of people living in remote rainf…
View article: Difficult at dusk? Illuminating the debate on cricket ball visibility
Difficult at dusk? Illuminating the debate on cricket ball visibility Open
View article: Visual and cognitive processes contribute to age‐related improvements in visual selective attention
Visual and cognitive processes contribute to age‐related improvements in visual selective attention Open
Children ( N = 103, 4–9 years, 59 females, 84% White, c. 2019) completed visual processing, visual feature integration (color, luminance, motion), and visual search tasks. Contrast sensitivity and feature search improved with age similarly…
View article: The relationship between image statistics and aesthetic preference for art and natural scenes
The relationship between image statistics and aesthetic preference for art and natural scenes Open
Empirical aesthetics has identified relationships between quantifiable characteristics of visual scenes and the aesthetic preferences observers show for them. We investigated the relationship between aesthetics and scene characteristics us…
View article: Color discrimination and chromatic balance perception after adaptation to natural and color-reflected scenes.
Color discrimination and chromatic balance perception after adaptation to natural and color-reflected scenes. Open
The chromatic distributions of natural scenes are biased in a blue-yellow direction (Nascimento et al., 2002, JOSA A, 19(8), 1484–1490). Existing research suggests a possible link between natural scene statistics and color discrimination (…
View article: A test of the ecological valence theory of color preference, the case of Arabic
A test of the ecological valence theory of color preference, the case of Arabic Open
Humans have systematic and reliable color preferences. The dominant account of color preference is that individuals like some colors more than others due to the valence of objects that they associate with colors (Ecological Valence Theory)…
View article: The Development of Color Perception and Cognition
The Development of Color Perception and Cognition Open
Color is a pervasive feature of our psychological experience, having a role in many aspects of human mind and behavior such as basic vision, scene perception, object recognition, aesthetics, and communication. Understanding how humans enco…
View article: Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development
Infant color perception: Insight into perceptual development Open
A remarkable amount of perceptual development occurs in the first year after birth. In this article, we spotlight the case of color perception. We outline how within just 6 months, infants go from very limited detection of color as newborn…
View article: Is color discrimination influenced by the chromatic statistics of different visual environments?
Is color discrimination influenced by the chromatic statistics of different visual environments? Open
The distribution of chromaticities in natural scenes is elongated along the blue-yellow axis. Color discrimination thresholds are also poorest along the blue-yellow axis, which may reflect calibration of color vision to the visual environm…
View article: Measuring the human “chromatic diet” and its relation to preference for color distributions across cultures
Measuring the human “chromatic diet” and its relation to preference for color distributions across cultures Open
Visual preferences for artworks and scenes tend to align with regularities in spatial scene statistics of the natural world (Graham & Field, 2008, Spatial Vision, 21, 149-64). Similarly, preference is highest for color distributions which …
View article: ColourSpot, a novel gamified tablet-based test for accurate diagnosis of color vision deficiency in young children
ColourSpot, a novel gamified tablet-based test for accurate diagnosis of color vision deficiency in young children Open
View article: Ensemble coding of color and luminance contrast
Ensemble coding of color and luminance contrast Open
View article: Religion, Parochialism and Intuitive Cooperation [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol]
Religion, Parochialism and Intuitive Cooperation [Registered Report Stage 1 Protocol] Open
ABSTRACT: Religions promote cooperation but they can also be divisive. Religious identity, while signaling trustworthiness, provides opportunities for out-group discrimination. Although implicit distrust of atheists is widespread, i…
View article: Red, yellow, green, and blue are not particularly colorful
Red, yellow, green, and blue are not particularly colorful Open
Colorfulness and saturation have been neglected in research on color appearance and color naming. Perceptual particularities, such as cross-cultural stability, "focality," "uniqueness," "salience," and "prominence" have been observed for r…
View article: Red, yellow, green and blue are not particularly colorful
Red, yellow, green and blue are not particularly colorful Open
This is supplementary material accompanying the article: Witzel, C., Maule, M., & Franklin, A. (2019) Red, yellow, green and blue are not particularly colorful. Journal of Vision. focsat_data.xlsx contains all the individual data,…
View article: Red, yellow, green and blue are not particularly colorful
Red, yellow, green and blue are not particularly colorful Open
This is supplementary material accompanying the article: Witzel, C., Maule, M., & Franklin, A. (2019) Red, yellow, green and blue are not particularly colorful. Journal of Vision. focsat_data.xlsx contains all the individual data,…
View article: Color categorization in infants
Color categorization in infants Open
View article: Tablet-based app for screening for CVD in young children
Tablet-based app for screening for CVD in young children Open
There currently is no widely available and accurate test for diagnosing colour vision deficiency (CVD) in pre-literate children, yet young children with CVD may be particularly disadvantaged by widespread use of colour in early learning en…
View article: Ensemble perception of colour
Ensemble perception of colour Open
In order to rapidly get the gist of new scenes the brain must have mechanisms to process the large amount of visual information that enters the eye. Previous research has shown that observers can extract the average feature from briefly se…
View article: Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis
Is intuition really cooperative? Improved tests support the social heuristics hypothesis Open
Understanding human cooperation is a major scientific challenge. While cooperation is typically explained with reference to individual preferences, a recent cognitive process view hypothesized that cooperation is regulated by socially acqu…
View article: Ensemble percepts of color contrast
Ensemble percepts of color contrast Open
Ensemble coding has been demonstrated for many attributes including color, but the metrics on which this averaging is based remain uncertain. We examined ensemble percepts for colors that varied in saturation along opponent axes, to explor…
View article: Ensemble perception of color in autistic adults
Ensemble perception of color in autistic adults Open
Dominant accounts of visual processing in autism posit that autistic individuals have an enhanced access to details of scenes [e.g., weak central coherence] which is reflected in a general bias toward local processing. Furthermore, the att…