The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
The everchanging Sky-Tower - an apparent giant
Perception. 2023 Dec 21:3010066231222526. doi: 10.1177/03010066231222526. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor over a quarter-century, the Sky-Tower has dominated the skyline of Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau. Despite its imposing height, observers anecdotally report odd fluctuations in how big it appears. From certain angles, it can look positively stumpy. Such misperceptions can be bewildering and perilous when it happens whilst driving. Here, we characterise this strange illusion in the hopes of better understanding its cause.PMID:38130143 | DOI:10.1177/03010066231222526 (Source: Perception)
Source: Perception - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dietrich S Schwarzkopf Annelise Kolf Cathy Lai Tina Huang Shuji Kinoshita Source Type: research
Posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist
We report posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist. Studies of painted or photographed portraiture have often reported such biases. However, whether these truly exist or are mere sampling artifacts remains open to question. A novel approach to such a question is provided by contemporary applications generating photo-realistic virtual portraits. Such applications are exposed to large datasets of portraits of real people. A neural network then maps the variation of the original input set to a huge-dimensional generative model capturing the variation in the original data, which is then used to synthesize the vir...
Source: Perception - December 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicola Bruno Source Type: research
Posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist
We report posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist. Studies of painted or photographed portraiture have often reported such biases. However, whether these truly exist or are mere sampling artifacts remains open to question. A novel approach to such a question is provided by contemporary applications generating photo-realistic virtual portraits. Such applications are exposed to large datasets of portraits of real people. A neural network then maps the variation of the original input set to a huge-dimensional generative model capturing the variation in the original data, which is then used to synthesize the vir...
Source: Perception - December 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicola Bruno Source Type: research
Posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist
We report posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist. Studies of painted or photographed portraiture have often reported such biases. However, whether these truly exist or are mere sampling artifacts remains open to question. A novel approach to such a question is provided by contemporary applications generating photo-realistic virtual portraits. Such applications are exposed to large datasets of portraits of real people. A neural network then maps the variation of the original input set to a huge-dimensional generative model capturing the variation in the original data, which is then used to synthesize the vir...
Source: Perception - December 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicola Bruno Source Type: research
Posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist
We report posing biases in portraits of people that do not exist. Studies of painted or photographed portraiture have often reported such biases. However, whether these truly exist or are mere sampling artifacts remains open to question. A novel approach to such a question is provided by contemporary applications generating photo-realistic virtual portraits. Such applications are exposed to large datasets of portraits of real people. A neural network then maps the variation of the original input set to a huge-dimensional generative model capturing the variation in the original data, which is then used to synthesize the vir...
Source: Perception - December 18, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nicola Bruno Source Type: research
When small effect sizes become huge: Synaesthesia is linked to very large differences in cognition
Perception. 2023 Dec 6:3010066231218911. doi: 10.1177/03010066231218911. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe replication crisis has taught us to expect small-to-medium effects in psychological research. But this is based on effect sizes calculated over single variables. Mahalanobis D, the multivariate equivalent of Cohen's d, can enable very large group differences to emerge from a collection of small-to-medium effects (here, reanalysing multivariate datasets from synaesthetes and controls). The use of multivariate effect sizes is not a slight of hand but may instead be a truer reflection of the degree of psychological diffe...
Source: Perception - December 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamie Ward Source Type: research
When small effect sizes become huge: Synaesthesia is linked to very large differences in cognition
Perception. 2023 Dec 6:3010066231218911. doi: 10.1177/03010066231218911. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe replication crisis has taught us to expect small-to-medium effects in psychological research. But this is based on effect sizes calculated over single variables. Mahalanobis D, the multivariate equivalent of Cohen's d, can enable very large group differences to emerge from a collection of small-to-medium effects (here, reanalysing multivariate datasets from synaesthetes and controls). The use of multivariate effect sizes is not a slight of hand but may instead be a truer reflection of the degree of psychological diffe...
Source: Perception - December 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamie Ward Source Type: research
When small effect sizes become huge: Synaesthesia is linked to very large differences in cognition
Perception. 2023 Dec 6:3010066231218911. doi: 10.1177/03010066231218911. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe replication crisis has taught us to expect small-to-medium effects in psychological research. But this is based on effect sizes calculated over single variables. Mahalanobis D, the multivariate equivalent of Cohen's d, can enable very large group differences to emerge from a collection of small-to-medium effects (here, reanalysing multivariate datasets from synaesthetes and controls). The use of multivariate effect sizes is not a slight of hand but may instead be a truer reflection of the degree of psychological diffe...
Source: Perception - December 6, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jamie Ward Source Type: research
