Through the manipulation of color and form, visual abstract art is often used to convey
feelings and emotions. Here, we explored how colors and lines are used to express basic …

There is substantial evidence to suggest that preference for visual curvature is a reliable
phenomenon. Yet, little is known about the ways in which the encoding of curvature in the …

To what extent do aesthetic experiences arise from the human ability to perceive and extract
meaning from visual features? Ordinary scenes, such as a beach sunset, can elicit a sense …

In light of the growing interest in studying the affective and aesthetic attributes of curvature,
the present paper describes four digital image processing techniques that can be used to …

Visual shape perception is central to many everyday tasks, from object recognition to
gras** and handling tools. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Yet how shape is encoded in the …

Over the past two decades, researchers in the field of visual aesthetics have studied
numerous quantitative (objective) image properties and how they relate to visual aesthetic …

Why are some images more likely to be remembered than others? Previous work focused on
the influence of global, low-level visual features as well as image content on memorability …

Artificial intelligence techniques offer promising avenues for exploring human body features
from videos, yet no freely accessible tool has reliably provided holistic and fine-grained …

Converging evidence indicates that deep neural network models that are trained on large
datasets are biased toward color and texture information. Humans, on the other hand, can …

Individuals with aphantasia report either absent or dramatically reduced mental imagery
compared to control participants. The image of an object or scene produced “in the mind's …