Recent Publications
Object
recognition
Subramanian, A., Price, S., Kumbhar, O., Sizikova, E., Majaj, N. J., & Pelli, D. G. (2025). Benchmarking the speed–accuracy tradeoff in object recognition by humans and neural networks. Journal of Vision, 25(1), 4-4.
Kurzawski, J. W., Qiu, B. S., Majaj, N. J., Benson, N., Pelli, D. G., & Winawer, J. (2024). Conservation of cortical crowding distance across individuals in human V4. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology, 2024.04.03.587977.
Subramanian, A., Sizikova, E., Majaj, N., & Pelli, D. (2024). Spatial-frequency channels, shape bias, and adversarial robustness. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 36.
Kurzawski, J. W., Pombo, M., Burchell, A., Hanning, N. M., Liao, S., Majaj, N. J., & Pelli, D. G. (2023). EasyEyes—A new method for accurate fixation in online vision testing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 17, 1255465.
Kurzawski, J. W., Burchell, A., Thapa, D., Winawer, J., Majaj, N. J., & Pelli, D. G. (2023). The Bouma law accounts for crowding in 50 observers. Journal of Vision, 23(8), 6-6.
Pelli, D., Kurzawski, J., Burchell, A., Thapa, D., Majaj, N., & Winawer, J. (2021). Measuring crowding in a hundred people. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2725.
Beauty
Bruns, A., & Pelli, D. G. (2024). Empathy strengthens the effect of emotion on beauty. Research Square. (Preprint)
Pombo, M., Igdalova, A., & Pelli, D. G. (2024). Consensus and contention in beauty judgment. iScience.
Bruns, A., Pombo, M., Ripollés, P., & Pelli, D. G. (2023). Emotions of subject and object affect beauty differently for images and music. Journal of Vision, 23(13), 6-6.
Pombo, M., & Pelli, D. G. (2023). Beauty isn't special: Comparing the information capacity of beauty and other sensory judgments. Journal of Vision, 23(7), 6-6.
Pombo, M., Brielmann, A. A., & Pelli, D. G. (2023). The intrinsic variance of beauty judgment. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85(4), 1355-1373.
Pombo, M., & Pelli, D. G. (2022). Aesthetics: It’s beautiful to me. Current Biology, 32(8), R378-R379.
Brielmann, A. A., Nuzzo, A., & Pelli, D. G. (2021). Beauty, the feeling. Acta Psychologica, 219, 103365.
Brielmann, A. A., & Pelli, D. G. (2021). The pleasure of multiple images. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 1179-1188.
Brielmann, A. A., & Pelli, D. G. (2019). Intense beauty requires intense pleasure. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2420.
Brielmann, A. A., & Pelli, D. G. (2017). Beauty requires thought. Current Biology, 27(10), 1506-1513.