When you look at two objects close to you such as two leaves, it's easy to tell them apart but when they are farther away from you, they become difficult to distinguish. The two objects become ...

Remember the last time someone flipped you the bird? Whether or not that single finger was accompanied by spoken obscenities, you knew exactly what it meant. The conversion from movement into meaning ...

Gestalt principles of perception are theories proposed by German psychologists in the 1920s to explain how people organize visual information 1. Gestalt is a German word meaning shape or form. The ...

We review a series of behavioural experiments on imitation in children and adults that test the predictions of a new theory of imitation. Most of the recent theories of imitation assume a direct ...

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"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Between Perception and Definition: the Work of Winifred Lutz' which was organized by the Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, where it appeared ...

If you’re like me, the first several months of quarantine in 2020 seriously fucked with your perception of time — whether that meant a single day felt like a week, or a week felt like a day. Basically ...