Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional,
methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in object
recognition by placing the question of object recognition in the context of the broader …

The perceptual recognition of objects is conceptualized to be a process in which the image
of the input is segmented at regions of deep concavity into an arrangement of simple …

First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the
cognitive sciences. It presents a model for understanding the visual processing underlying …

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a
twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image …

With the rise in popularity of digital cameras, the amount of visual data available on the web
is growing exponentially. Some of these pictures are extremely beautiful and aesthetically …

We introduce the problem of scene viewpoint recognition, the goal of which is to classify the
type of place shown in a photo, and also recognize the observer's viewpoint within that …

1. Words activate brain regions that are close to or overlap with brain areas that are active
during perception of or actions involving the words' referents (Isenberg et al., 1999; Martin & …

NE INCIDENT DURING my years as a PhD student changed my views on Oacademic
research considerably: I was drafting a joint paper with my supervisor, Lesley Milroy, and in …