While it is difficult to imagine the way someone with mental illness perceives the world,
paintings produced by mental illness sufferers with artistic talents offer a hint of this …

The Prinzhorn Collection preserves and exhibits thousands of visual artworks by patients
who were diagnosed to suffer from mental disease. From this collection, we analyzed 1,256 …

The way schizophrenia patients perceive the world is largely mysterious. Understanding and
appreciating the visual world begins with the perception of basic visual features, which is …

In this study, we combined the behavioral and objective approach in the field of empirical
aesthetics. First, we studied the perception of beauty by investigating shifts in evaluation on …

Studies have shown that patients with schizophrenia exhibit visual processing impairments,
particularly regarding the processing of spatial frequencies. In a previous work, we found …

While schizophrenia patients are impaired at facial emotion perception, the role of basic
visual processing in this deficit remains relatively unclear. We examined emotion perception …

Natural scenes tend to be biased in both scale (1/f) and orientation (H> V≫ O; horizontal>
vertical≫ oblique), and the human visual system has similar biases that serve to partially …

The spatial characteristics of letters and their influence on readability and letter identification
have been intensely studied during the last decades. There have been few studies …

What makes two images look similar? Here we test the hypothesis that perceived similarity
of artwork is related to basic image statistics to which the early visual system is attuned. In …

Paintings are the product of a process that begins with ordinary vision in the natural world
and ends with manipulation of pigments on canvas. Because artists must produce images …