📄 The Rocking Line Illusion - Thornton and Todorović This article presents a new visual illusion, where a line moving sideways appears to rock around its centre as it passes over static contrast boundaries. See it for yourself in the paper below ⬇️⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📄 Up is Best - Anstis and Cavanagh The authors report that the bias for ambiguous stimuli to look like they point upwards is due to a preference for seeing depth receding from the lower to the upper visual field ⬇️⬇️⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Glad to have my new paper accepted at Perception & i-Perception Journals today! My student and I found that the valence of the surrounding items (from animals to flowers) and faces (with formed emotion info from affective knowledge) can affect the perception of a face. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Effect of the number and diversity of visual stimuli on the reproduction of short time intervals. Perception & i-Perception Journals "the times between key presses were longer when additional items had different shapes and colors than when they were also red squares" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Emotion category-modulated interpretation bias in perceiving ambiguous facial expressions. Perception & i-Perception Journals "increasing expression ambiguity and degrading image quality induced a general negativity versus positivity bias in expression categorization" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Change detection versus change localization for faces, houses, and words. Perception & i-Perception Journals Faces: change detection > change localization. Houses: change localization > change detection. Words: change detection = change localization. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

🧠 We can hardly believe it's been nearly a month since #ECVP23 - if you attended, please share below your favourite memories (pics encouraged!) For us, a key highlight was the Keynote Lecture from Prof Manuela Piazza (Università di Trento) on 'Navigating Semantic Spaces' ✨️

Our latest output led by our PhD student Andreas Brink Perception & i-Perception Journals: Factors of significance for the ability of fighter pilots to visually indicate the magnitude of roll tilt during simulated turns in a centrifuge - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03… KTH Royal Institute of Technology Karolinska Institutet

🏆Early Career Best Paper Prize🏆 Congrats to Naoya Zushi, author of 'The effects of anxiety on taste perception: The role of awareness' University of Tsukuba "...which emotional states affect taste perception may differ depending on taste quality" ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

📣 We're happy to announce Perception & i-Perception are now affiliated with the Peer Community In: Registered Reports PCI Registered Reports (@[email protected]) as PCI-Interested journals: rr.peercommunityin.org/about/pci_rr_i…  Please contact Sam Schwarzkopf Sam Schwarzkopf (sampendu.bsky.social) (RR editor & Recommender at PCI:RR) for more info

🎄 Festive article alert 🎄 Reindeer and the quest for Scottish enlichenment By NJ Dominy, C Hobaiter & JM Harris Do reindeer have colour-shifting tapetums, UV sensitivity to help them detect UV-absorbing lichens? Click the link below to find out more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

🏢❓️ The everchanging Sky-Tower – an apparent giant by Schwarzkopf, Kolf, Lai, Huang, and Kinoshita A newly published paper uses photographs to find the Sky-Tower’s apparent height and squatness depends on distance and altitude ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

📄🌀 Golden Spiral or Fibonacci Spiral: which is more beautiful and why? A new research article from Ronald Hübner discerns that the Golden Spiral is aesthetically preferred due to the continuity of the curvature - check it out at the link below: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

From Kyushu University (Japan): an optical illusion where in a series of three flashes, the third distorts our perception of the second flash. It moves the second flash between the first and third, no matter where it actually occurred! Perception & i-Perception Journals: bit.ly/3RnwTaf

Silvia De Marchi, tra le prime donne del Regno d'Italia a laurearsi in Filosofia, fu pioniera negli studi sulla percezione della numerosità. A 100 anni dalla pubblicazione della sua tesi, celebriamo il suo contributo su Perception & i-Perception Journals. unipd.link/silvia-de-marc…

Visual Softness Perception Can Be Manipulated Through Exploratory Procedures by Kılıç and Dövencioğlu This study provides evidence that participants can assess material properties from optic and mechanical cues without needing haptic signals 👗👔🖐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Today marks the first day of #ECVP2024 and we are proud to be one of the sponsors 🤩 If you're attending the conference, we hope your presentations go well and we hope you enjoy all the science ✨️

📄 Tactile temporal predictions: The influence of conditional probability by Ren, An, Yu, Tang, Ejima, Wu & Yang "... [these results suggest] a greater subjective cost associated with maladaptive responses to temporally uncertain events" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

.Robin Kramer was invited to write a book review for the second edition of ‘Face Perception’ by Young and Bruce. The review has been published in the journal Perception (Perception & i-Perception Journals) and can be found here: buff.ly/4ghecj4.

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/