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Visual Processing of Symmetry

A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 3206

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Prof. Dr. Marco Bertamini

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Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, UK
Interests: visual perception; symmetry; attention; multisensory integration; mirrors
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Dr. Alexis Makin

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Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, UK
Interests: empirical aesthetics; symmetry perception; velocity perception; smooth pursuit eye movements; prediction-motion tasks
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Prof. Dr. Peter Jes Kohler

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Interests: visual neuroscience; visual processing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue in the journal Symmetry, associated with the 7th annual Visual Properties Driving Visual Preference (VPDVP) workshop (https://www.bertamini.org/lab/vpdvp.html) at the University of Liverpool. We welcome articles that report new insights into the neural processing of visual symmetry, obtained with either brain imaging or behavioural methods.

Prof. Dr. Marco Bertamini
Dr. Alexis Makin
Prof. Dr. Peter Jes Kohler
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • symmetry
  • fractal dimension
  • natural statistics
  • smooth curvature

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Overlapping Neural Responses to Reflectional Symmetry and Glass Patterns Revealed by an ERP Priming Paradigm
by John Tyson-Carr, Giulia Rampone, Elena Karakashevska, Yiovanna Derpsch, Marco Bertamini and Alexis D. J. Makin
Symmetry 2022, 14(7), 1329; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14071329 - 27 Jun 2022
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The extrastriate visual cortex is activated by visual regularity and generates an ERP known as the sustained posterior negativity (SPN). Spatial filter models offer a biologically plausible account of regularity detection based on the spectral properties of an image. These models are specific [...] Read more.
The extrastriate visual cortex is activated by visual regularity and generates an ERP known as the sustained posterior negativity (SPN). Spatial filter models offer a biologically plausible account of regularity detection based on the spectral properties of an image. These models are specific to reflection and therefore imply that reflectional symmetry and Glass patterns are coded by different neural populations. We utilised the SPN priming effect to probe representational overlap between reflection and Glass patterns. For each trial, participants were presented with a rapid succession of three patterns. In the Repeated condition, three reflections or three Glass patterns were presented. In the Changing condition, patterns alternated between reflection and Glass patterns. An increase in SPN amplitude (priming) was observed in both the Repeated and Changing conditions. Results indicate a greater representational overlap in the brain between reflection and Glass patterns than predicted by spatial filter models. Full article
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Perceptual Similarities among Wallpaper Group Exemplars
by Peter J. Kohler, Shivam Vedak and Rick O. Gilmore
Symmetry 2022, 14(5), 857; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14050857 - 21 Apr 2022
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Symmetries are abundant within the visual environment, and many animals species are sensitive to visual symmetries. Wallpaper groups constitute a class of 17 regular textures that each contain a distinct combination of the four fundamental symmetries, translation, reflection, rotation and glide reflection, and [...] Read more.
Symmetries are abundant within the visual environment, and many animals species are sensitive to visual symmetries. Wallpaper groups constitute a class of 17 regular textures that each contain a distinct combination of the four fundamental symmetries, translation, reflection, rotation and glide reflection, and together represent the complete set of possible symmetries in two-dimensional images. Wallpapers are visually compelling and elicit responses in visual brain areas that precisely capture the symmetry content of each group in humans and other primates. Here we ask to what extent different exemplars from the same wallpaper group are perceptually similar. We used an algorithm to produce a set of well-matched exemplars from 5 of the 17 wallpaper groups and instructed participants to freely sort the exemplars from each group into as many subsets as they wished based on any criteria they saw appropriate. P1, the simplest of the 17 groups, was consistently rated more self-similar than any other group, while the other four groups, although varying in symmetry content, were comparable in self-similarity. Our results suggest that except for the most extreme case (P1), perceived self-similarity of wallpaper groups is not directly tied to categories of symmetry based on group theory. Full article
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