Symmetry perception and psychedelic experience

ADJ Makin, M Roccato, E Karakashevska, J Tyson-Carr… - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
This review of symmetry perception has six parts. Psychophysical studies have investigated
symmetry perception for over 100 years (part 1). Neuroscientific studies on symmetry …

Lessons from a catalogue of 6674 brain recordings

ADJ Makin, J Tyson-Carr, G Rampone, Y Derpsch… - ELife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
It is now possible for scientists to publicly catalogue all the data they have ever collected on
one phenomenon. For a decade, we have been measuring a brain response to visual …

[HTML][HTML] When does perceptual organization happen?

ADJ Makin, N Buckley, E Austin, M Bertamini - Cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
Reflectional (mirror) symmetry is an important visual cue for perceptual organization. The
brain processes symmetry rapidly and efficiently. Previous work suggests that symmetry …

Symmetry processing in the macaque visual cortex

P Audurier, Y Héjja-Brichard, V De Castro… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Symmetry is a highly salient feature of the natural world that is perceived by many species.
In humans, the cerebral areas processing symmetry are now well identified from …

[HTML][HTML] The role of task on the human brain's responses to, and representation of, visual regularity defined by reflection and rotation

E Zamboni, ADJ Makin, M Bertamini, AB Morland - NeuroImage, 2024 - Elsevier
Identifying and segmenting objects in an image is generally achieved effortlessly and is
facilitated by the presence of symmetry: a principle of perceptual organisation used to …

The Effects of Visual Complexity and Task Difficulty on the Comprehensive Cognitive Efficiency of Cluster Separation Tasks

Q Guo, Y Chen - Behavioral Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cluster separation is required to perform multi-class visual statistics tasks and plays an
essential role in information processing in visualization. This cognition behavioral study …

The interaction between luminance polarity grouping and symmetry axes on the ERP responses to symmetry

B Dering, D Wright, E Gheorghiu - Visual Neuroscience, 2024 - cambridge.org
Symmetry is a salient visual feature in the natural world, yet the perception of symmetry may
be influenced by how natural lighting conditions (eg, shading) fall on the object relative to its …

[HTML][HTML] An Eye Tracking Study on Symmetry and Golden Ratio in Abstract Art

MP Lucia, C Salera, P Zivi, M Iosa, A Pecchinenda - Symmetry, 2024 - mdpi.com
A visual stimulus that is divided in harmonic proportions is often judged as more pleasant
than others. This is well known by artists that often used two main types of geometric …

Visual search efficiency is modulated by symmetry type and texture regularity

R Moreau, NJ Alp, ADF Clarke, E Freud, PJ Kohler - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
More than a century of vision research has identified symmetry as a fundamental cue, which
aids the visual system in making inferences about objects and surfaces in natural scenes …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing the Influence of Visual Stimulus Properties on Steady-State Visually Evoked Potentials and Pupil Diameter

YB Eisma, ST van Vliet, AJ Nederveen, JCF de Winter - 2024 - researchgate.net
Abstract Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) are brain responses measurable
via electroencephalography (EEG) in response to continuous visual stimulation at a constant …