In what ways is mammalian vision—and in particular, human vision—efficiently adapted to
its ecology? We suggest that human visual artwork, which is made for the human eye, holds …

This article illustrates how the paintings of visual artists activate multiple brain processes that
contribute to their conscious perception. Paintings of different artists may activate different …

The visual system evolved to process natural images, and the goal of visual neuroscience is
to understand the computations it uses to do this. Indeed the goal of any theory of visual …

An emerging body of research suggests that artists consistently seek modes of
representation that are efficiently processed by the human visual system, and that these …

Computer vision often treats perception as objective, and this assumption gets reflected in
the way that datasets are collected and models are trained. For instance, image descriptions …

By learning to discriminate among visual stimuli, human observers can become experts at
specific visual tasks. The same is true for Rhesus monkeys, the major animal model of …

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 …

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 …

Visual processing of natural scenes is carried out in a hierarchical sequence of stages that
involve the analysis of progressively more complex features of the visual input. Recent …

How the activity of neurons gives rise to natural vision remains a matter of intense
investigation. The mid-level visual areas along the ventral stream are selective to a common …