Humans often create and appreciate visual symmetry in their environment, and the
underlying brain mechanisms have been a topic of increasing interest. Here, symmetric …

No other study has had as great an impact on the development of the similarity literature as
that of Tversky (1977), which provided compelling demonstrations against all the …

The inferior temporal (IT) cortex in monkeys plays a central role in visual object recognition
and learning. Previous studies have observed patches in IT cortex with strong selectivity for …

Human adults and infants show a preference for average faces, which could stem from a
general processing mechanism and may be shared among primates. However, little is …

The aim of this large-scale study was to find out which points along the contour of a shape
are most salient and why. Many subjects (N= 161) were asked to mark salient points on …

Previous studies have argued that faces and other objects are encoded in terms of their
deviation from a class prototype or norm. This prototype is associated with a smaller neural …

Accurately recognising faces enables social interactions. In recent years it has become clear
that people's accuracy differs markedly depending on viewer's familiarity with a face and …

Asymmetries, where response times differ depending on the order of two stimuli, have been
widely used to explore fundamental aspects of perceptual processing. Given how much is …

We document consistent return patterns related to round numbers. We examine returns
following previous day closing prices that are just above or below round number …

During visual object categorisation, a match must be found between the input image and
stored information about basic-level categories. Graf [2002 Form, Space and Object (Berlin …