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Givago Silva Souza, Francisco dos Santos Cardoso, Javier Enrique Santillan, José Fernando Barraza + 1 more
Environmental sensing refers to the process by which organisms extract information from their surroundings to construct representations that guide behavior ([19]). Sensory recognition and the perceptual construction of such information are inherently complex, given the multiplicity of mechanisms involved in each…
Andrew Surtees, Ian Apperly, Dana Samson
Previous research has shown that calculating if something is to someone’s left or right involves a simulative process recruiting representations of our own body in imagining ourselves in the position of the other person ([21]). We compared left and right judgements from another’s spatial position (spatial perspective…
Michael J. Proulx, Orlin S. Todorov, Amanda Taylor Aiken, Alexandra A. de Sousa
'Alexandra A. de Sousa'] Knowing who we are, and where we are, are two fundamental aspects of our physical and mental experience. Although the domains of spatial and social cognition are often studied independently, a few recent areas of scholarship have explored the interactions of place and self. This fits in with…
H. A. Sedgwick
Perception” Authors: ['H. A. Sedgwick'] J. J. Gibson's ground theory of space perception is contrasted with Descartes’ theory, which reduces all of space perception to the perception of distance and angular direction, relative to an abstract viewpoint. Instead, Gibson posits an embodied perceiver, grounded by gravity…
Morfoisse Theo, Herrera Altamira Gabriela, Angelini Leonardo, Clément Gilles + 3 more
Human 3D perception of visual objects is flawed by distortions, which are influenced by non-visual factors, such as gravitational vestibular signals. Whether gravity acts specifically on the visual system or at a higher, modality-independent, level of information processing remains unknown. To test these…
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A core aspect of human perception is situated awareness, the ability to relate ourselves to the surrounding physical environment and reason over possible actions in context. However, most existing benchmarks for multimodal foundation models (MFMs) emphasize environment-centric spatial relations (relations among objects…
Stephen Ramanoël, Marion Durteste, Alice Bizeul, Anthony Ozier-Lafontaine + 4 more
Orienting in space requires the processing and encoding of visual spatial cues. The dominant hypothesis about the brain structures mediating the coding of spatial cues stipulates the existence of a hippocampal-dependent system for the representation of geometry and a striatal-dependent system for the representation of…
Casper J. Erkelens
In the literature, perspective space has been introduced as a model of visual space. Perspective space is grounded on the perspective nature of visual space during both binocular and monocular vision. A single parameter, that is, the distance of the vanishing point, transforms the geometry of physical space into that…
Isabella Bustanoby, Andrew Krupien, Umaima Afifa, Benjamin Asdell + 26 more
Visual perception plays a critical role in navigating 3D space and extracting semantic information crucial to survival. Even though visual stimulation on the retina is fundamentally 2D, we seem to perceive the world around us in vivid 3D effortlessly. This reconstructed 3D space is allocentric and faithfully represents…
Xavier E. Job, Louise P. Kirsch, Malika Auvray
Information can be perceived from a multiplicity of spatial perspectives, which is central to effectively understanding and interacting with our environment and other people. Sensory impairments such as blindness are known to impact spatial representations and perspective-taking is often thought of as a visual process.…
Jain Kwon, Alyssa Iedema
Human perception has long been a critical subject of design thinking. While various studies have stressed the link between thinking and acting, particularly in spatial experience, the term “design thinking” seems to disconnect conceptual thinking from physical expression or process. Spatial perception is multimodal and…
Sebastian Feld, Steffen Illium, Andreas Sedlmeier, Lenz Belzner
In the near future, more and more machines will perform tasks in the vicinity of human spaces or support them directly in their spatially bound activities. In order to simplify the verbal communication and the interaction between robotic units and/or humans, reliable and robust systems w.r.t. noise and processing…
Jianyi Yang, Jianbo Ye, Ankan Dash, Guiling Wang
By comparing biological and artificial perception through the lens of illusions, we highlight critical differences in how each system constructs visual reality. Understanding these divergences can inform the development of more robust, interpretable, and human-aligned artificial intelligence (AI) vision systems. In…
James F. Peters, Arturo Tozzi, Sheela Ramanna
During the exploration of the surrounding environment, the brain links together external inputs, giving rise to perception of a persisting object. During imaginative processes, the same object can be recalled in mind even if it is out of sight. In this proof of concept study, Borsuk’s theory of shape and the…
Weichen Dai, Yuxuan Huang, Zhu Li, Liu + 11 more
Humans possess a remarkable capacity for spatial cognition, allowing for selflocalization even in novel or unfamiliar environments. While hippocampal neurons encoding position and orientation are well documented, the large-scale neural dynamics supporting spatial representation—particularly during naturalistic, passive…
J. Gerard Wolff
The SP theory of intelligence aims to simplify and integrate concepts in computing and cognition, with information compression as a unifying theme. This article is about how the SP theory may, with advantage, be applied to the understanding of natural vision and the development of computer vision. Potential benefits…
Sepehr Sima, Mehdi Sanayei
Time and space are two intertwined contexts that frame our cognition of the world and possibly have shared mechanisms. A well-known theory on this case is ‘A Theory of Magnitude (ATOM)’ which states that the perception of these two domains shares common mechanisms. However, evidence regarding shared computations of…
Rogério Parentoni Martins
This is perhaps a philosophical question rather than a mathematical one, we do not expect to give a full answer, even though we hope to clarify some ideas. In addition, we would like to provide a new perspective on the subject. We will find curious analogies with the way we perceive color and make some imaginary…
Nicolás Vattuone, Thomas Wächtler, Inés Samengo
Our sensory systems transform external signals into neural activity, from which percepts are produced. We are endowed with an intuitive notion of similarity between percepts, that need not reflect the proximity of the physical properties of the corresponding external stimuli. The quantitative characterization of the…
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For decades, molecular visualization software has been fundamental to education and research in chemistry, structural biology, and materials science. These tools have enabled the inspection of structures, dynamics, and interactions, yet their reliance on two-dimensional (2D) interfaces imposes persistent limitations.…
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Machine olfaction—the artificial replication of the sense of smell—faces significant challenges due to the absence of large, standardized training datasets. Unlike vision, language, and audio models, which benefit from extensive corpora such as ImageNet, GLUE, and AudioSet, olfaction lacks scaled equivalents and…
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Scope: I introduce a reproducible, closed-surface mapping of the periodic system onto a sphere with a single equatorial ring, yielding a symmetric alternative to 2D layouts. The construction partitions the sphere into belts that match the cardinalities of the s/p/d/f blocks (2/6/10/14), places lanthanoids and actinoids…