✨ How does the visual system combine conflicting information from both eyes? 👁️ Using segmented ring stimuli, this study shows that binocular lustre is shaped by a weighted integration of visual signals—not a winner-takes-all process. 📖 doi.org/10.1177/2041...

🖼️➡️🧠 How do we turn fragments into a complete picture? This study used slit-viewing tasks to investigate visual temporal integration and found no relationship between autistic traits, imagination difficulties, and task performance. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/2041...

Beauty and attractiveness aren't quite the same. 🎨 Ratings of art portraits showed that beauty judgments were linked to objective image properties A reminder that what makes an artwork beautiful isn't necessarily what makes its subject attractive. Read more: doi.org/10.1177/2041...

🎨 Is generative AI creating art—or high-resolution kitsch? 🤖 Does AI excel at producing familiar, emotionally appealing images. Or does it risk reducing ambiguity, perspective shifts, and the perceptual disruption that gives art its transformative power. Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0301...

🎯 One set of printed images, many different percepts. 💡 Under changing illumination, observers reported effects ranging from glow and flow to rotation, depth, and material changes—all without altering the images themselves. Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...

👀 Can a visual effect make something feel sticky? 🖐️ As participants pulled their fingers apart, a deforming region stretched before breaking. 📈 The farther it stretched, the stickier it was perceived to be—even without any physical resistance. Full paper doi.org/10.1177/2041...

🎯 Three ways to perceive the same object ⬛ The figure compares luminance-, disparity-, and two-frame motion-defined forms. 📏 Even though motion-defined objects quickly faded from view, observers judged their shape almost as accurately as the other two conditions. Full paper doi.org/10.1177/0301...

😷 Do face masks affect social judgments differently in people with autistic traits? 🤝 Masked faces were perceived as more trustworthy 📈 Masked faces were also rated as more competent 🧩 These effects did not differ between individuals with high and low autistic traits ↓ doi.org/10.1177/0301...

🎨 Why do these shapes look three-dimensional? 💡 Robert Fones' paintings are illuminated as though light comes from above and slightly left—a direction known to enhance depth perception 👁️ Turn them upside down and some viewers see the shapes reverse Full Paper↓ doi.org/10.1177/2041...

🎯 Does uncertainty around object position affect perceived causality? ↗️ Stronger causal impressions were reported for oblique than cardinal motion trajectories 👁️ Sensory uncertainty was higher for oblique trajectories 🏆 Congratulations to Lina et al. on receiving an Early Career Best Paper Prize

A number sense for action ✋ Children's performance on an action-based numerosity task predicted arithmetic ability ➕ More strongly than dot or flash estimation tasks This i-Perception study points to a unique role for sensorimotor numerosity in mathematical development. ↓ doi.org/10.1177/2041...

🧠 People who struggle to identify emotions tend to have weaker awareness of internal body signals 🕹️ Moving in sync with a VR body increases the feeling that it’s “yours” This Perception study shows emotion awareness and body signals help shape embodiment in VR. doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Interoception, alexithymia, and motor congruency: Psychological drivers of body ownership in virtual reality - Sarune Savickaite, Mitra Gupta, Dharshini Kannan, 2026

Alexithymia, a personality trait marked by difficulty in identifying and describing emotions, is associated with differences in interoception – the ability to p...

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Psychophysics & sample size debate 👀Small “n” isn’t automatically weak 📊Large “n” isn’t always the only path to rigour This Perception Editorial revisits a long-standing tension in vision science Small n does not mean poor research. ↓ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0301...

With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.

AI faces vs real faces. 👀 People can tell them apart 🤖 But AI faces may be recognised more accurately This new Perception paper suggests AI faces engage perception and memory differently. ↓ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Emotion recognition is influenced by movement.​ 👀 Static faces draw more attention to the eyes—but gaze shifts when expressions change.​ 🎥 This new Perception paper highlights why more realistic stimuli matter.​ ↓ Full paper:​ doi.org/10.1177/0301...

Put on red–cyan glasses🔴🔵 A flat image can reveal depth. Anaglyphs create stereoscopic perception by sending different signals to each eye. This new i-Perception paper explores how. ↓ Full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Look closely👀 Does the number of items feel stable—or does it change? Numerosity perception is surprisingly flexible. Explored in this new i-Perception paper. ↓ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...

Quick question: 🖐️ or 📳 — which makes an experience feel more realistic? Touch can increase immersion, presence, and engagement. But can haptic tech match the nuance of human interaction? This new i-Perception paper explores both. ↓ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...

Are you so interested in perception that you've started to ask questions that border on the philosophical? 💭 If so then you'll love Perception's new Philosophy Corner - now open for submissions ✨️ For more details please see: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Great new initiative from the editors of Perception: Philosophy Corner. A forum for "accessible reflections on the conceptual foundations of sensory/perception science where empirical insight meets philosophical inquiry". journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing Philosophy Corner - Tim S. Meese, Pascal Mamassian, Isabelle Mareschal, Frans A.J. Verstraten, 2025

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Already halfway through the fantastic @ecvp.bsky.social‬ conference in Mainz! It started beautifully with the Perception Lecture given by Astrid Kappers. Looking forward to reading the paper linked to the lecture that will be published in Perception!

💭 Reduction in distraction due to perceptual load: A failure to replicate by Snowden and Gray "These results show that load theory is, at best, an incomplete explanation of how stimuli are selected, and the fate of the non-attended stimuli." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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⬅️➡️ "Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control" by van Dam et al Delay adaptation occurs for stylus (graphics tablet) and arrow buttons (keyboard) but doesn't transfer between response styles journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Delay adaptation does not transfer between discrete button press actions and continuous control - Loes CJ van Dam, Svenja Kernig, Karina Lazarova, Melisa Ünal, Nicole Gappa, Benjamin Straube, Thomas S...

When interacting with technology, humans often deal with delays between an action and the desired action outcome. Through delay adaptation these delays will bec...

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I really appreciated @mamassian.bsky.social's editorial in @pec-ipe.bsky.social about using LLMs for peer review. The review process faces serious challenges, to be sure: I don't know anyone who hasn't struggled to find reviewers these days. Still, we can't ignore the issues raised here.

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🔵 Qualitative shape from shading by Norman and Todd This work suggests that humans can distinguish between luminance caused by surface orientation compared to differences in illuminance caused by multiple light sources, cast shadows, and indirect reflections 🌟 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚫️/⬛️? Reassessing the curvature effect in tables and chairs by Chuquichambi et al People typically show a preference for curved rather than angular contours, but findings from this paper revealed no clear preference for curvature in chairs or tables ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"And just like microwaves are now mostly used to reheat old meals, LLMs mostly regurgitate some old text that they were trained on. This is hardly what we expect when we ask reviewers to critically evaluate the quality of an original manuscript." Definitely worth a read 💭 @mamassian.bsky.social

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"As appealing as they can be, Large Language Models are as useful to scientific research as microwaves are to fine cuisine." doi.org/10.1177/0301...

🖼 The embodied experience of abstract art: Moving across the 20th century by Cox and van Klaveren This article looks at the emerging relationship between artwork and one's bodily movements and associated embodied affective states 💭 ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The embodied experience of abstract art: Moving across the 20th century - Ralf F. A. Cox, Lisa-Maria van Klaveren, 2025

The aim of this study was to contribute to our understanding of embodied art experiences. We were interested in the emerging relationship between artwork, on th...

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👂👃 The diatonic sound of scent imagery by Pimentel et al This article finds that major modes were perceived as brighter and more liked than minor modes, which was similar for floral & fresh fragrances relative to oriental & woody fragrances 🌸🌟 ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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