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The Visual Imagery Visually Anchored Scale (VIVAS) reveals dissociable perceptual dimensions and category-specific structure: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Authors: @heidasigurdar.bsky.social, Árnason, Mäekalle, Vésteinsdóttir, @arnig.bsky.social

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New Paper! w. Léa Entzmann and Árni Kristjánsson

TL;DR: Endpoint deviations are determined by current target-previous distractor difference, but do not reflect the shape of the previous distractor distribution. Saccadic latencies do reflect these distributions.

jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx...

Summary of @khvo100v.bsky.social (Vlad's) excellent work on a novel method for probing ensemble perception (published in PB&R)

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Amplification from saliency affects explicit but not implicit ensemble representations - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics The visual system can encode multiple objects in the form of ensemble representations. Such representations can be accessed with either explicit or implicit reports, but depending on the type of repor...

New paper by @icevislab.bsky.social graduate Dr. Aleksei Iakovlev w. @khvo100v.bsky.social , @utochkin.bsky.social and Árni Kristjánsson.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

What does our conscious perception of this set of berries consist of? If you heard about Ensemble perception, you could say: “It’s too much info for our poor attention/working memory systems, so instead of storing all the individual features, people just represent the average and variability.” 1/5

Explicit access to detailed representations of feature distributions - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review The human visual system can quickly process groups of objects (ensembles) and build compressed representations of their features. What does the conscious perception of ensembles consist of? Observersʼ...

Hot off the press:
Vlad Khvostov's work at the @icevislab.bsky.social on how the Feature Frequency Report method reveals rich and explicit representations of feature distributions.

doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Just cancelled my #vss2025 hotel booking. It's sad that the anticipation of social and intellectual stimulation has been overshadowed by uncertainty about academic freedom, science funding in the US, and anxiety about how the next executive order might affect my travel plans #visionscience #resist

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How does color distribution learning affect goal-directed visuomotor behavior? While the visual world is rich and complex, importantly, it nevertheless contains many statistical regularities. For example, environmental feature di…

New IVL paper by Léa Entzmann et al.

Feature distribution learning measured by manual and saccadic responses.

Spoiler: Results essentially the same across response modalities suggesting attentional orienting - not decisional - effects of FDL.

Mandatory shoutout to @achetverikov.bsky.social

Happy to build the foundations for shitposting. Unfortunately, I've been constipated and will rely on your efforts until I find the appropriate probiotics or an effective laxative 💩

The doubters say it's just a rebound. But I've never seen the IVL happier ❤️