The present study examines how objective design factors of a website are linked to different facets of subjective aesthetic perception. Five online experiments based upon the screenshots of real-existing websites with a total of N = 194 participants were conducted to isolate and analyze the effects of two objective structural factors (vertical symmetry, visual complexity) and three objective co...

Four- and 7-month-old infants' perception of transparency was investigated with computer-generated achromatic or color displays depicting a semitransparent box occluding the center of a rod. Following habituation, infants viewed test displays consisting of either a two-color rod (corresponding to the habituation display's proximal characteristics) or a solid rod (corresponding to the distal cha...

We present a novel computer game-based framework for phonetic perception experiments. We employ the game environment of a first-person shooter game where players interact with and respond to animated creatures in different virtual environments. Whenever the player encounters such an animated creature, a sound stimulus is played and the creature changes its color depending on the type of stimulu...

Since the beginning of experiments on visual perception, it has been evident that it is difficult to model the behavior of the human visual system (HVS) in a simple way. Painters and poets experienced first some visual effects and they often used them for artworks. In these cases the perceptual phenomenon was described using qualitative terms and with “suggestive” and emotional words. In this p...

The mechanisms of perceptual learning and contextually sensitive retrieval were recently suggested as possible explanations of the effect of irrelevant information on judgment: the judgment of the same stimulus was reported to depend on its irrelevant characteristics. The reported experiments test the chances for a perceptual learning explanation of the effect. Experiment 1 successfully induces...

Color filters humanity’s perception of the world and alters people’s relationships with their surroundings. It influences human perception, preference, and psychology throughout the lifespan. Color preferences appear in infants as young as three months old, and typically change with age. Some responses to color may be innate, and some may be learned from nature or culture. Cool hues are relaxan...

The study of color perception in humans is an important ongoing research which currently mainly relies on psychophysical studies. Most psychophysical studies are prune to limitations which can highly reduce the scalability and repeatability of their experiments, cause over-fitting, and fail to fully engage subjects in performing the given tasks. Gamification is becoming a popular approach in ob...

Color images provide large information for human visual perception compared to grayscale images. Color image enhancement methods enhance the visual data to increase the clarity of the color image. It increases human perception of information. Different color image contrast enhancement methods are used to increase the contrast of the color images. The Retinex algorithms enhance the color images ...