🌊 👀 Can two simple patterns create something that really isn't there? This new paper introduces Dynamic Illusory Waves (DIWAs)—a striking illusion where relative motion gives rise to flowing, transparent phantom surfaces. Make your own: maltacogsci.org/diwa/ Full paper: doi.org/10.1177/2041...

✨ 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...

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.

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...

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....

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!

🔵 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/...

🏆 Did you know we offer early career best paper prizes? You could be eligible if you're the primary author and are within 5 years of completing your PhD - definitely worth a look! For the full list of papers awarded these prizes, please see the link below: journals.sagepub.com/page/ipe/col...

👶 Does early visual deprivation affect preference for looking towards face-like stimuli in newborns? Effects of early visual deprivation on face detection in premature newborns by de Almeida et al (Perception) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🏆 Early Career Best Paper Prize Winner 🏆 (Definitely worth a read!) Monocular blur impairs heading judgements from optic flow by Sheppard et al "...the impact of monocular blur on heading perception becomes apparent only when optic flow signals are weak" ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If you're into motion perception then this short report is a real treat... (don't forget to check out the videos in the supplementary materials) 🎥 Vection is enhanced by visual oscillation based on four-stroke apparent motion by Nakamura and Palmisano journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Does changing the orientation of the body or arms affect perceptual judgements of length of objects? Read below to find out 😇 The influence of body orientation on length judgements by Scarpellini and Smeets journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Have you ever wondered how to study art-viewing behaviour? 🖼 Visualizing the change of “viewpoints” in 3D virtual art exhibition by Matsumoto and Okada journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Today we're wondering how it's almost the end of January already 🤯 so we're inspiring you to think about how we measure time perception ⏰️ Quantifying uncertainty in time perception: A modified reproduction method by Boned and López-Moliner pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39654968/

Congratulations to Karl Gegenfurtner who won the 2024 Pineapple Science Award in Psychology (kind of Chinese “Ig Nobel”) for his work on how oranges can be perceptually ripened, that was published in i-Perception! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...