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mahwishkittur.bsky.social

@mahwishkittur.bsky.social
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Undergrad at UNC-Chapel Hill, interested broadly in cognition

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My lab has been really interested in topological perception the past two years. In a new paper, we ask: How does a topological perspective (re-)shape our understanding of visual complexity? Work led by one of our many wonderful undergraduate students, Ashna Shah! link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Topological structure and the creation of visual complexity - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
What does it mean for something to be complex? Fundamentally, complexity is a cue that something is less easily represented by our minds. With this fact in view, complexity becomes a tool: By understa...
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mahwishkittur.bsky.social @mahwishkittur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
After years of analyzing thousands of drawings from hundreds of adults and children, I am excited to share my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social )! Using a simple drawing task, we show how topological structure is represented in the mind and its importance in spatial memory.
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Topological structure in human spatial representation revealed through drawing
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Gabe Waterhouse @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
When you look at a complex scene, you perceive various ensembles — sets of items of various sizes, numbers, etc. Are some more salient than others? In a new paper (w/ samiyousif.bsky.social), we provide an answer to this question! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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