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The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full‐body illusions in children and adults (2024)
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Dewe, H., Sill, O., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R., & Cowie, D. (2024). The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full‐body illusions in children and adults. Journal of Neuropsychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12372

The present study explored the effects of visuomotor synchrony in virtual reality during the embodiment of a full human avatar in children (aged 5–6 years) and adults. Participants viewed their virtual bodies from a first‐person perspective while the... Read More about The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full‐body illusions in children and adults.

The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art (2023)
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Wisher, I., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2023). The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 19009. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46320-8

Virtual Reality (VR) has vast potential for developing systematic, interdisciplinary studies to understand ephemeral behaviours in the archaeological record, such as the emergence and development of visual culture. Upper Palaeolithic cave art forms t... Read More about The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art.

Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain) (2023)
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Wisher, I., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2024). Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain). Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 34(2), 315-338. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774323000288

The influence of pareidolia has often been anecdotally observed in examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art, where topographic features of cave walls were incorporated into images. As part of a wider investigation into the visual psychology of the ear... Read More about Conversations with Caves: The Role of Pareidolia in the Upper Palaeolithic Figurative Art of Las Monedas and La Pasiega (Cantabria, Spain).

An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar (2023)
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Bacon, B., Khatiri, A., Palmer, J., Freeth, T., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2023). An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 33(3), https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774322000415

In at least 400 European caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet and Altamira, Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens groups drew, painted and engraved non-figurative signs from at least ~42,000 BP and figurative images (notably animals) from at least 37,000 BP. Sin... Read More about An Upper Palaeolithic Proto-writing System and Phenological Calendar.

Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and body representation in virtual reality (2022)
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Keenaghan, S., Polaskova, M., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R. W., & Cowie, D. (2022). Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and body representation in virtual reality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105518

Previous work shows that in adults, illusory embodiment of a virtual avatar can be induced using congruent visuomotor cues. Furthermore, embodying different-sized avatars influences adults’ perception of their environment’s size. This study (N = 92)... Read More about Alice in Wonderland: The effects of body size and movement on children’s size perception and body representation in virtual reality.

Developmental changes in colour constancy in a naturalistic object selection task (2022)
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Wedge-Roberts, R., Aston, S., Beierholm, U., Kentridge, R., Hurlbert, A., Nardini, M., & Olkkonen, M. (2023). Developmental changes in colour constancy in a naturalistic object selection task. Developmental Science, 26(2), Article e13306. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13306

When the illumination falling on a surface changes, so does the reflected light. Despite this, adult observers are good at perceiving surfaces as relatively unchanging – an ability termed colour constancy. Very few studies have investigated colour co... Read More about Developmental changes in colour constancy in a naturalistic object selection task.

Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study (2022)
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Smekal, V., Burt, D., Kentridge, R., & Hausmann, M. (2022). Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study. Neuropsychology, 36(5), 443-455. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000804

Objective: To resolve inconsistencies in the literature regarding the dominance of the right cerebral hemisphere (RH) in emotional face perception, specifically investigating the role of the intensity of emotional expressions, different emotions, and... Read More about Emotion lateralization in a graduated emotional chimeric face task: An online study.

Aging and the rehabilitation of homonymous hemianopia: The efficacy of compensatory eye-movement training techniques and a five-year follow up (2021)
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Zihl, J., Kentridge, R., Pargent, F., & Heywood, C. (2021). Aging and the rehabilitation of homonymous hemianopia: The efficacy of compensatory eye-movement training techniques and a five-year follow up. Aging Brain, 1, Article 100012. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbas.2021.100012

The specificity and effectiveness of eye-movement training to remedy impaired visual exploration and reading with particular consideration of age and co-morbidity was tested in a group of 97 patients with unilateral homonymous hemianopia using a sing... Read More about Aging and the rehabilitation of homonymous hemianopia: The efficacy of compensatory eye-movement training techniques and a five-year follow up.

The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions (2020)
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Meyering, L., Kentridge, R., & Pettitt, P. (2020). The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions. World Archaeology, 52(2), 205-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2020.1891964

How have our visual brains evolved, and exactly how did this constrain the specific way that animals were depicted in Upper Palaeolithic art? Here, we test predictions derived from visual neuroscience in this field. Using the example of open-air Uppe... Read More about The visual psychology of European Upper Palaeolithic figurative art: using Bubbles to understand outline depictions.

Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened (2020)
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Wedge-Roberts, R., Aston, S., Beierholm, U., Kentridge, R., Hurlbert, A., Nardini, M., & Olkkonen, M. (2020). Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened. Journal of Vision, 20(12), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.12.4

Previous studies suggest that to achieve color constancy, the human visual system makes use of multiple cues, including a priori assumptions about the illumination (“daylight priors”). Specular highlights have been proposed to aid constancy, but the... Read More about Specular highlights improve colour constancy when other cues are weakened.

My body until proven otherwise: Exploring the time course of the full body illusion (2020)
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Keenaghan, S., Bowles, L., Crawfurd, G., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R. W., & Cowie, D. (2020). My body until proven otherwise: Exploring the time course of the full body illusion. Consciousness and Cognition, 78, Article 102882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102882

Evidence from the Full Body Illusion (FBI) has shown that adults can embody full bodies which are not their own when they move synchronously with their own body or are viewed from a first-person perspective. However, there is currently no consensus r... Read More about My body until proven otherwise: Exploring the time course of the full body illusion.

Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content (2019)
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Hausmann, M., Innes, B., Birch, Y., & Kentridge, R. (2021). Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content. Emotion, 21(1), 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000648

It is widely agreed that hemispheric asymmetries in emotional face perception exist. However, the mechanisms underlying this lateralization are not fully understood. In the present study, we tested whether (a) these asymmetries are driven by the low... Read More about Laterality and (in)visibility in emotional face perception: Manipulations in spatial frequency content.

Plasticity versus chronicity: Stable performance on category fluency 40 years post-onset (2019)
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de Haan, E. H., Seijdel, N., Kentridge, R. W., & Heywood, C. A. (2020). Plasticity versus chronicity: Stable performance on category fluency 40 years post-onset. Journal of Neuropsychology, 14(1), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12180

What is the long‐term trajectory of semantic memory deficits in patients who have suffered structural brain damage? Memory is, per definition, a changing faculty. The traditional view is that after an initial recovery period, the mature human brain h... Read More about Plasticity versus chronicity: Stable performance on category fluency 40 years post-onset.

Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness (2019)
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Michel, M., Beck, D., Block, N., Blumenfeld, H., Brown, R., Carmel, D., Carrasco, M., Chirimuuta, M., Chun, M., Cleeremans, A., Dehaene, S., Fleming, S. M., Frith, C., Haggard, P., He, B. J., Heyes, C., Goodale, M. A., Irvine, L., Kawato, M., Kentridge, R., …Yoshida, M. Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(2), 104-107. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0531-8

Scientific research on consciousness is critical to multiple scientific, clinical, and ethical issues. The growth of the field could also be beneficial to several areas including neurology and mental health research. To achieve this goal, we need to... Read More about Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness.

Beyond scattering and absorption: Perceptual un-mixing of translucent liquids (2018)
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Chadwick, A., Cox, G., Smithson, H., & Kentridge, R. (2018). Beyond scattering and absorption: Perceptual un-mixing of translucent liquids. Journal of Vision, 18(11), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.11.18

Is perception of translucence based on estimations of scattering and absorption of light or on statistical pseudocues associated with familiar materials? We compared perceptual performance with real and computer-generated stimuli. Real stimuli were g... Read More about Beyond scattering and absorption: Perceptual un-mixing of translucent liquids.

Action blindsight and antipointing in a hemianopic patient (2018)
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Smits, A., Seijdel, N., Scholte, H., Heywood, C., Kentridge, R., & de Haan, E. (2019). Action blindsight and antipointing in a hemianopic patient. Neuropsychologia, 128, 270-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.029

Blindsight refers to the observation of residual visual abilities in the hemianopic field of patients without a functional V1. Given the within- and between-subject variability in the preserved abilities and the phenomenal experience of blindsight pa... Read More about Action blindsight and antipointing in a hemianopic patient.

Vision: Non-illusory Evidence for Distinct Visual Pathways for Perception and Action (2018)
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Kentridge, R. (2018). Vision: Non-illusory Evidence for Distinct Visual Pathways for Perception and Action. Current Biology, 28(6), R264-R266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.016

When visual information about an object’s distance is obscured, but its retinal size visible, the object’s physical size is ambiguous to vision; however, additional proprioceptive distance information permits physical size to be estimated when graspi... Read More about Vision: Non-illusory Evidence for Distinct Visual Pathways for Perception and Action.

Translucence perception is not dependent on cortical areas critical for processing colour or texture (2017)
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Chadwick, A., Heywood, C., Smithson, H., & Kentridge, R. (2019). Translucence perception is not dependent on cortical areas critical for processing colour or texture. Neuropsychologia, 128, 209-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.009

Translucence is an important property of natural materials, and human observers are adept at perceiving changes in translucence. Perceptions of different material properties appear to arise from different cortical regions, and it is therefore plausib... Read More about Translucence perception is not dependent on cortical areas critical for processing colour or texture.

Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate (2017)
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Peters, M. A., Kentridge, R. W., Phillips, I., & Block, N. (2017). Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/nix015

In our ASSC20 symposium, “Does unconscious perception really exist?”, the four of us asked some difficult questions about the purported phenomenon of unconscious perception, disagreeing on a number of points. This disagreement reflected the objective... Read More about Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate.