Our brains cling to stability: when scenes slowly change, people still see the original for longer than expected. This AI-image study shows that perception lags behind reality -our minds favor continuity over constant reprocessing.

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I'm pleased to share our new paper, "Attention to complex scene features", now published in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics! We investigated how well traditional attention theories generalize to complex scene features, using AI-generated stimuli. Check out the paper here: rdcu.be/elLFK

Using the continuous scene stimulus space generated by GANs, we showed that the perceptual representation adaptively biases depending on the categorical concepts shaped by global scene features.

PDF version at: drive.google.com/file/d/1Ebg0...

Brief category learning distorts the perceptual space of complex scenes! Our new paper is now in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review: link.springer.com/article/10.3.... 

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