Neurodiversity is a perspective on cognition which suggests a non-pathological view of
individual cognitive differences. Aesthetics research on neurodivergent brains has generally …

Natural scene luminance distributions typically have positive skew, and for single objects,
there is evidence that higher skew is a correlate (but not a guarantee) of glossiness …

Background Individuals with psychiatric disorders perceive the world differently. Previous
studies indicated impaired color vision and weakened color discrimination ability in …

Natural scenes tend to be biased in both scale (1/f) and orientation (H> V≫ O; horizontal>
vertical≫ oblique), and the human visual system has similar biases that serve to partially …

Jung's writings on schizophrenia are almost completely ignored or forgotten today. The
purpose of this paper, along with a follow‐up article, is to review the primary themes found in …

Recent studies demonstrated a reduced expression of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein
(FMRP), an RNA binding protein and translation regulator, in the brain and peripheral …

Neuroscientific investigations of statistical features in images are now a wellestablished field
of study. A “feature” in this case means a characteristic or regularity of an image that is …

In what ways is mammalian vision—and in particular, human vision—efficiently adapted to
its ecology? We suggest that human visual artwork, which is made for the human eye, holds …

How do representations of the face in portraits relate to the natural face, and how does the
aesthetics of portraits relate to the aesthetics of faces in photographs? Here we investigate …

The Prinzhorn Collection preserves and exhibits thousands of visual artworks by patients
who were diagnosed to suffer from mental disease. From this collection, we analyzed 1,256 …