Already halfway through the fantastic @ecvp.bsky.social‬ conference in Mainz! It started beautifully with the Perception Lecture given by Astrid Kappers. Looking forward to reading the paper linked to the lecture that will be published in Perception!

💭 Reduction in distraction due to perceptual load: A failure to replicate by Snowden and Gray "These results show that load theory is, at best, an incomplete explanation of how stimuli are selected, and the fate of the non-attended stimuli." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⬅️➡️ "Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control" by van Dam et al Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I really appreciated @mamassian.bsky.social's editorial in @pec-ipe.bsky.social about using LLMs for peer review. The review process faces serious challenges, to be sure: I don't know anyone who hasn't struggled to find reviewers these days. Still, we can't ignore the issues raised here.

🔵 Qualitative shape from shading by Norman and Todd This work suggests that humans can distinguish between luminance caused by surface orientation compared to differences in illuminance caused by multiple light sources, cast shadows, and indirect reflections 🌟 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚫️/⬛️? Reassessing the curvature effect in tables and chairs by Chuquichambi et al People typically show a preference for curved rather than angular contours, but findings from this paper revealed no clear preference for curvature in chairs or tables ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"And just like microwaves are now mostly used to reheat old meals, LLMs mostly regurgitate some old text that they were trained on. This is hardly what we expect when we ask reviewers to critically evaluate the quality of an original manuscript." Definitely worth a read 💭 @mamassian.bsky.social

🖼 The embodied experience of abstract art: Moving across the 20th century by Cox and van Klaveren This article looks at the emerging relationship between artwork and one's bodily movements and associated embodied affective states 💭 ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

👂👃 The diatonic sound of scent imagery by Pimentel et al This article finds that major modes were perceived as brighter and more liked than minor modes, which was similar for floral & fresh fragrances relative to oriental & woody fragrances 🌸🌟 ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚡️🎮 What role does touch play in active entertainment? A narrative review of tactile feedback in gaming - Gao & Spence Considers the history of tactile feedback to see if there's scope for tactile simulation to enhance interactivity across active entertainment ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Do people with cerebral visual impairment (CVI) have mental imagery? 💭 Assessing visual mental imagery abilities in cerebral visual impairment by Manley, Ravenscroft and Merabet ⬇️⬇️⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏆 Did you know we offer early career best paper prizes? You could be eligible if you're the primary author and are within 5 years of completing your PhD - definitely worth a look! For the full list of papers awarded these prizes, please see the link below: journals.sagepub.com/page/ipe/col...

👶 Does early visual deprivation affect preference for looking towards face-like stimuli in newborns? Effects of early visual deprivation on face detection in premature newborns by de Almeida et al (Perception) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏆 Early Career Best Paper Prize Winner 🏆 (Definitely worth a read!) Monocular blur impairs heading judgements from optic flow by Sheppard et al "...the impact of monocular blur on heading perception becomes apparent only when optic flow signals are weak" ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

⏰️ Time is running out to contribute to our Special Collection on 3D Object Perception and Recognition If you have exciting results on 3D object perception/ recognition - consider publishing your results in a Special Collection in i-Perception DL: 31 March 2025 journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

⏰️ Time is running out to contribute to our Special Collection on 3D Object Perception and Recognition If you have exciting results on 3D object perception/ recognition - consider publishing your results in a Special Collection in i-Perception DL: 31 March 2025 journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Great piece about the importance of spending time with your colleagues over coffee.Totally the kind of thing that probably looks "inefficient" to some, but leads to so many valuable outcomes. #VisionScience

"... the best thing to do is to come back to the lab, meet a few times a day in the coffee room, and have all those discussions that we used to have" ☕️ New editorial: The coffee room and the future of perception research By Frans A.J. Verstraten journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If you're into motion perception then this short report is a real treat... (don't forget to check out the videos in the supplementary materials) 🎥 Vection is enhanced by visual oscillation based on four-stroke apparent motion by Nakamura and Palmisano journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Does changing the orientation of the body or arms affect perceptual judgements of length of objects? Read below to find out 😇 The influence of body orientation on length judgements by Scarpellini and Smeets journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Have you ever wondered how to study art-viewing behaviour? 🖼 Visualizing the change of “viewpoints” in 3D virtual art exhibition by Matsumoto and Okada journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Have you ever wondered what predicts an object's perceptual translucency? 🤔 Quantifying the perceptual translucency of the objects by spectrophotometric and imaging methods by Yadegari and Kandi journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #Vision #Light #Translucency

Today we're wondering how it's almost the end of January already 🤯 so we're inspiring you to think about how we measure time perception ⏰️ Quantifying uncertainty in time perception: A modified reproduction method by Boned and López-Moliner pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39654968/

A thought-provoking study on the origins of colour categories by @bevilconway.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... If you were at ECVP 2024 in Aberdeen, you heard Bevil give a preview of this work in his Perception Lecture.

Do you have some exciting results on 3D object perception and recognition? Consider publishing your results in a Special Collection in i-Perception. Your manuscript will be professionally handled by outstanding editors. Deadline: 31 March 2025 More info: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

The bendiness does not change THE BENDINESS DOES NOT CHANGE!! Behold, the curvature blindness illusion journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm editing a special issue of i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social) on 3D objects and shape. Please consider us if you're currently wondering where to send that object recognition or mid-level shape project! And get in touch if you're interested but would need more time. bit.ly/ipe-objects

Congratulations to Karl Gegenfurtner who won the 2024 Pineapple Science Award in Psychology (kind of Chinese “Ig Nobel”) for his work on how oranges can be perceptually ripened, that was published in i-Perception! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The journals Perception and i-Perception are now on Bluesky! We’ll post here updates about articles published in the journals, calls for special issues, and any other exciting news related to perception research.