Responses to visually presented objects along the cortical surface of the human brain have
a large-scale organization reflecting the broad categorical divisions of animacy and object …

A plain, blank canvas does not look very beautiful; to make it aesthetically appealing
requires adding structure and complexity. But how much structure is best? In other words …

In real-world vision, people prioritise the most informative scene regions via eye-
movements. According to the cognitive guidance theory of visual attention, viewers allocate …

Boundary contraction and extension are two types of scene transformations that occur in
memory. In extension, viewers extrapolate information beyond the edges of the image …

The canonical size phenomenon refers to the mental representation of real-object size
information: the objects larger in the physical world are represented as larger in mental …

Several studies have shown that blind people, including those with congenital blindness,
can use raised-line drawings, both for “reading” tactile graphics and for drawing unassisted …

We investigate the optimal aesthetic location and size of a single dominant salient region in
a photographic image. Existing algorithms for photographic composition do not take full …

Individuals inevitably make inferences concerning size when they consider an object
presented without cues to its actual size. Recent studies show that structural differences in …

Remarkably, human brains have the ability to accurately perceive and process the real-
world size of objects, despite vast differences in distance and perspective. While previous …

Abstract Number perception emerges from multiple stages of visual processing.
Understanding how systematic biases in number perception occur within a hierarchy of …