Drawing is a cognitive tool that makes the invisible contents of mental life visible. Humans
use this tool to produce a remarkable variety of pictures, from realistic portraits to schematic …

Sketches are highly expressive, inherently capturing subjective and fine-grained visual
cues. The exploration of such innate properties of human sketches has, however, been …

This paper presents an unpaired method for creating line drawings from photographs.
Current methods often rely on high quality paired datasets to generate line drawings …

We present a comprehensive review of the rare syndrome visual form agnosia (VFA). We
begin by documenting its history, including the origins of the term, and the first case study …

We report a new multidimensional measure of visual complexity (GraphCom) that captures
variability in the complexity of graphs within and across writing systems. We applied the …

How do drawings—ranging from detailed illustrations to schematic diagrams—reliably
convey meaning? Do viewers understand drawings based on how strongly they resemble …

Why is it that we can recognize object identity and 3D shape from line drawings, even
though they do not exist in the natural world? This article hypothesizes that the human visual …

Visual explanations play an integral role in communicating mechanistic knowledge about
how things work. What do people think distinguishes such pictures from those that are …

Production and comprehension have long been viewed as inseparable components of
language. The study of vision, by contrast, has centered almost exclusively on …

Humans can categorize complex natural scenes quickly and accurately. Which scene
properties enable people to do this with such apparent ease? We extracted structural …