Viewing artificial objects and images that are designed to appear human can elicit a sense of unease, referred to as the 'uncanny valley' effect. Here we investigate neural correlates of the uncanny valley, using still images of androids (robots desi...
The ability to process visual stimuli rich with motion represents an essential skill for animal survival and is largely already present at the onset of vision. Although the exact mechanisms underlying its maturation remain elusive, spontaneous activi...
Associative learning tests are cognitive assessments that evaluate the ability of individuals to learn and remember relationships between pairs of stimuli. The Rutgers Acquired Equivalence Test (RAET) is an associative learning test that utilizes ima...
While the use of naturalistic stimuli such as movie clips for understanding individual differences and brain-behaviour relationships attracts increasing interest, the influence of stimulus selection remains largely unclear. By using machine learning ...
Higher cortical areas carry a wide range of sensory, cognitive and motor signals mixed in heterogeneous responses of single neurons tuned to multiple task variables. Dimensionality reduction methods that rely on correlations between neural activity a...
The objects we perceive guide our eye movements when observing real-world dynamic scenes. Yet, gaze shifts and selective attention are critical for perceiving details and refining object boundaries. Object segmentation and gaze behavior are, however,...
. Steady-state visual evoked potential-based brain-computer interfaces (SSVEP-BCIs) have gained significant attention due to their simplicity, high signal to noise ratio and high information transfer rates (ITRs). Currently, accurate detection is a c...
Configural processing, the perception of spatial relationships among an object's components, is crucial for object recognition, yet its teleology and underlying mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesize that configural processing drives robust recogn...
In crowding, perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of nearby elements. As the entire stimulus configuration across large parts of the visual field influences crowding and not just nearby elements, low-level explanations, such as local p...
Scene categorization is the dominant proxy for visual understanding, yet humans can perform a large number of visual tasks within any scene. Consequently, we know little about how different tasks change how a scene is processed, represented, and its ...