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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…
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.…
Dhanraj Vishwanath
The dominant inferential approach to human 3D perception assumes a model of spatial encoding based on a physical description of objects and space. Prevailing models based on this physicalist approach assume that the visual system infers an objective, unitary and mostly veridical representation of the external world.…
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…
Vincent Schmidt, Sabine U. König, Rabia Dilawar, Tracy Sánchez-Pacheco + 1 more
Sensory augmentation offers a novel opportunity to broaden our knowledge of human perception through the use of external sensors that record information that humans cannot perceive naturally. This information is then translated in a meaningful way to be presented through an inherent sensory modality. To assess whether…
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…
Ilias Stogiannidis, Steven McDonagh, Sotirios A. Tsaftaris
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools, excelling in tasks that integrate visual and textual comprehension, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and image-text retrieval. However, existing benchmarks for VLMs include spatial components, which often fail to isolate spatial…
Okan Kuzu, Hanife Taşdelen
Introduction This study adopts a holistic perspective on spatial ability by integrating preservice teachers’ self-efficacy perceptions with performance-based approaches. It aims to assess spatial ability self-efficacy and examine differences across selected variables, as well as the relationship between spatial…
Amandine Afonso-Jaco, Brian F. G. Katz, Maurice Ptito, Daniel-Robert Chebat
Spatial cognition is a daily life ability, developed in order to be able to understand and interact with our environment. Even if all the senses are involved in mental representation of space elaboration, the lack of vision makes it more difficult, especially because of the importance of peripheral information in…
Manh, Bui Duc, Debnath, Soumyaratna + 14 more
BUI DUC MANH ∗ , School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore SOUMYARATNA DEBNATH ∗ , School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore ZETONG ZHANG† , Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, China SHRIRAM DAMODARAN† , Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar…
Marion Durteste, Luca R. Liebi, Emma Sapoval, Alexandre Delaux + 2 more
Position within the environment influences the navigational relevance of objects. However, the possibility that vertical position represents a central object property has yet to be explored. Considering that the upper and lower visual fields afford distinct types of visual cues and that scene-selective regions exhibit…
Yunlong Tang, Pinxin Liu, Mingqian Feng, Zhangyun Tan + 10 more
'Chao Huang' 'Jing Bi' 'Yunzhong Xiao' 'Susan Liang' 'Hang Hua' 'Ali Vosoughi' 'Luchuan Song' 'Zeliang Zhang' 'Chenliang Xu'] Understanding perspective is fundamental to human visual perception, yet the extent to which multimodal large language models (MLLMs) internalize perspective geometry remains unclear. We…
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…
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…
Michael Peer, Russell A. Epstein
Many of the environments that we navigate through every day are hierarchically organized—they consist of spaces nested within other spaces. How do our mind/brains represent such environments? To address this question, we familiarized participants with a virtual environment consisting of a building within a courtyard…
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…
Paul Linton
We present a new illusion that challenges our understanding of stereo vision. The illusion consists of a larger circle at 50cm, and smaller circle in front of it at 40cm, with constant angular sizes throughout. We move the larger circle forward by 10cm (to 40cm) and then back again (to 50cm). The question is, what…
Matej Hoffmann, Matthew R. Longo
Neurocognitive models of higher-level somatosensory processing have emphasised the role of stored body representations in interpreting real-time sensory signals coming from the body (Longo, Azañón and Haggard, 2010; Tamè, Azañón and Longo, 2019). The need for such stored representations arises from the fact that…
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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.…