The visual system provides a representation of what and where objects are. This entails
parsing the visual scene into distinct objects. Initially, the visual system encodes information …

An ongoing philosophical discussion concerns how various types of mental states fall within
broad representational genera—for example, whether perceptual states are “iconic” or …

Relative to low scorers, high scorers on the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) show enhanced
performance on the Embedded Figures Test and the Radial Frequency search task (RFST) …

Adaptation to prevailing stimuli is a ubiquitous property of the visual system that optimizes its
dynamic range. The perceived difference in orientation of successively presented lines of …

The ability to discriminate minute deviations from circularity is dependent upon global
summation mechanisms integrating information along entire contours. The aim of this study …

Combinations of radial frequency (RF) patterns may be used to represent the contours of
complex shapes. Previous work has shown that many radial frequency patterns are …

Observers make sense of scenes by parsing images on the retina into meaningful objects.
This ability is retained for line drawings, demonstrating that critical information is …

Radial Frequency (RF) contours provide a unifying system to represent familiar shapes,
such as triangles (RF3), squares (RF4) and pentagons (RF5), but it is not clear whether …

The human visual system's extreme sensitivity to subtle changes in shape can often be
attributed to global pooling of local information. This has been shown for shapes described …

Radial Frequency (RF) patterns can be used to study the processing of familiar shapes, eg
triangles and squares. Opinion is divided over whether the mechanisms that detect these …