It is an open question whether preferences for visual art can be lawfully predicted from the basic constituent elements of a visual image. Here, we developed and tested a computational framework to investigate how aesthetic values are formed. We show...
The purpose of this paper is to examine, whether and under which conditions humans are able to predict the putting distance of a robotic device. Based on the "flash-lag effect" (FLE) it was expected that the prediction errors increase with increasing...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2021
A visual object is characterized by multiple visual features, including its identity, position and size. Despite the usefulness of identity and nonidentity features in vision and their joint coding throughout the primate ventral visual processing pat...
Deep neural networks have revolutionized computer vision, and their object representations across layers match coarsely with visual cortical areas in the brain. However, whether these representations exhibit qualitative patterns seen in human percept...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Mar 22, 2021
The remarkable successes of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in modern computer vision are by now well known, and they are increasingly being explored as computational models of the human visual system. In this paper, we ask whether CNNs might al...
Journal of experimental psychology. General
Mar 22, 2021
Controlled-rearing studies provide the unique opportunity to examine which psychological mechanisms are present at birth and which mechanisms emerge from experience. Here we show that one core component of visual perception-the ability to parse objec...
In the last two decades rodents have been on the rise as a dominant model for visual neuroscience. This is particularly true for earlier levels of information processing, but a number of studies have suggested that also higher levels of processing su...
In this work, we examined the color tuning of units in the hidden layers of AlexNet, VGG-16 and VGG-19 convolutional neural networks and their relevance for the successful recognition of an object. We first selected the patches for which the units ar...
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution
Jan 18, 2021
Evolutionary biologists frequently wish to measure the fitness of alternative phenotypes using behavioral experiments. However, many phenotypes are complex. One example is coloration: camouflage aims to make detection harder, while conspicuous signal...
Behavior modeling is an essential cognitive ability that underlies many aspects of human and animal social behavior (Watson in Psychol Rev 20:158, 1913), and an ability we would like to endow robots. Most studies of machine behavior modelling, howeve...