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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Tomorrow (Thurs) at 9am in HS19, Marina Pace will present a series of studies that she ran with Tessa Bury, to test whether observers perceive *implied motion* in accessibility icons. #ECVP2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Spotted some appropriate public art in Wiesbaden on the way from VSAC to ECVP. #ECVP #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Maya Theresia Laughton presenting a beautiful film weaving together ideas from science and Hindu spirituality, called ‘Noumenon’. She made the film in collaboration with Janna Kyllästinen, as part of the Science New Wave Festival. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Maarten Leemans using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Dirk Walther presenting his lab’s work demonstrating an inverse relationship between the metabolic cost of visual processing and aesthetic judgments. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Branke Spehar discussing individual differences in how image features drive aesthetic preferences. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Anna Miscenà discussing the use of connoisseurs to determine the provenance of a painting. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

VSAC is a teen! Claus-Christian Carbon getting ready to give a presentation surveying VSAC’s first 13 years. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social speaking about perceptual animacy and predictive processing at the Visual Science of Art Conference. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

@dididu.bsky.social presenting her Celebrity EYE-Q card game at the Visual Science of Art Conference poster & demo session: #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Ronald Hübner on Gustav Fechner’s origins: #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Peggy Gerardin discussing the perception of line drawings: #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A roundtable discussion on the provocative question, ‘What Makes a Good Artwork?’ - with Claus-Christian Carbon, Ida-Marie Corell, Aaron Hertzmann and Angela Kohlrusch. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Zsofia Pilz discusses her study of how information in labels influences visitors’ viewing patterns and experiences of artworks the Rijksmuseum. #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Christopher Linden comparing viewers’ experiences of the same art exhibit in real life, as a virtual tour, and as static images: #VSAC2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social @gestaltrevision.bsky.social

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Aaron Hertzmann giving an inspiring keynote address to kick off the Visual Science of Art Conference in Wiesbaden: #VSAC @vsac-social.bsky.social

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Thanks to all at #vss2025 who stopped by tonight to play @dididu.bsky.social’s tabletop card game, Celebrity EYE-Q! Didi developed this game as a fun way for people of all ages and backgrounds to learn about holistic face processing. You can follow updates about the game on instagram @celebeyeq!

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

2. Then, in the afternoon, Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social will present a series of experiments which show that observers make more efficient use of visual information when predicting the behavior of a shape which looks goal-directed.

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

We've already seen several inspiring presentations at #VSS2025! Two New School perception folks will present work in the Pavillion tomorrow (Sat): 1. In the morning, Didi Dunin @dididu.bsky.social will present her research on memory distortions for facial age (in collaboration with Joan Ongchoco).

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Most work on the perception of animacy involves asking participants for subjective reports about what they see (e.g. “How ‘alive’ did that shape look, from 1-7?"). For example, in one study, moving dots which changed speed or heading more were rated as more animate (Tremoulet & Feldman, 2000):

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A rich tradition in vision science emphasizes that we see the world not only in terms of its physical structure, but also in terms of its social and causal structure. For example, even simple shapes look vividly alive if they move in particular ways (Heider & Simmel, 1944):

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In this thread, I introduce the ‘Blindfold Test’ — a new tool for deciding whether an experimental effect reflects perception, or higher-level judgment. Paper here: www.nssrperception.com/docs/van%20B...

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