We are now on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/icevislab.b… Let's see if this X post gets removed by Secretary of Waste Reduction for "beta behavior" 🤗 – at Iceland

Alternative link to paper: scholar.google.com/scholar?o… 8/7 – at Iceland

This manuscript is a preprint (version 2). It has at the time of deposit not been formally peer reviewed. Questions and comments, including suggestions for references to additional literature, are welcome and should be directed to the corresponding author ([email protected]). 7/7

Further, categorization of clashing objects is led astray under conditions thought to cut short recurrent processing. We suggest that an object space dimension that closely aligns with the animate-inanimate distinction is automatically extracted by the human visual system. 6/7

Conversely, when appearance and semantics clash (objects on the “incorrect” side of object space: animate-looking inanimate objects, inanimate-looking animals), visual information is underutilized or misleading, and semantic relatedness hinders discrimination. 5/7

In a series of studies, we show that when objects' appearance matches their true superordinate category (objects on the correct side of object space), people effectively use diverse visual aspects for their discrimination, with minimal interference from semantic relatedness. 4/7

We reasoned that if such an object space exists in humans, it should be reflected in people’s object perception. We used CNNs trained for object classification to construct a visual object space, and projected images onto this space to pick objects with specific coordinates. 3/7

Studies on macaques indicate that high-level regions of the ventral visual pathway are organized around a two-dimensional object space. This space captures the main two dimensions on which objects visually differ as derived from activation patterns in a neural network. 2/7

Preprint alert! 📰🚨"Why is a raven like a writing desk? The interplay of visual and semantic characteristics of animacy in object perception" by Ólafsdóttir, Pitchford, Maeekalle, and Sigurdardottir: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/sz… A thread🧵#visionscience #cogsci 1/7

Awesome, sounds great :) – at Iceland

Thank you all for #VSS2024 @VSSMtg -- see you next year #VSS2025 #VSS – at St Pete Beach, FL

Hi all, great to be back at @VSSMtg Here is stuff from Icelandic Vision Lab members from this afternoon and onward #VSS #VSS2024 – at St Pete Beach, FL

We have mostly abandoned X but return briefly to say: It will be lovely to meet so many of you at #VSS Please find us there to chat :) You can also reach me (Heida) at [email protected] #VSS2024 #VisionScience – at Iceland