The New School Perception Lab is en route to VSS, and looking forward to seeing the latest developments in the field! Abstracts: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Presenters: Loren Matelsky @lomat.bsky.social Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social Sarah Lassise Marina Pace Didi Dunin Lawrence Duan

At 9:15 in HS19, hongbnguyen.bsky.social will present her work demonstrating an advantage predicting the behavior of simple shapes which look alive and goal-directed! #ECVP

Also on Friday, Elisabeth Van der Hulst is part of the symposium "Temporal dynamics of cognitive processes underlying aesthetic experience" organized by @bvb373.bsky.social and @hongbnguyen.bsky.social with her talk: "In pursuit of movement: Choreographic complexity and viewing behavior in dance"⬇️

Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social speaking about perceptual animacy and predictive processing at the Visual Science of Art Conference. #VSAC2025

2. Then, in the afternoon, Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social will present a series of experiments which show that observers make more efficient use of visual information when predicting the behavior of a shape which looks goal-directed.

Does visual attention implicitly model physical regularities? In a new 📄 I report a cueing effect that shows how spatial orienting models the physical force of *friction*! #VisionScience #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc, #NeuroSkyence