PALab Talks
PALab Talks is our invited speaker series, bringing researchers to the Psychophysics of Appearance Laboratory to share and discuss their latest work.
23–27/08/2026: We presented at ECVP 2026!
Our lab presented new work at the 48th European Conference on Visual Perception in Bournemouth, UK.
Bilge’s Talk
Title: Anisotropy of small-number enumeration in peripheral vision
Emre’s Presentation
Title: Beyond visual resolution: Redundancy masking as a limiting factor of foveal vision
Nicolas’s Presentation
Title: Action knowledge acquired through VR training influences identification of novel tools under visual crowding
2026: New publications from the lab
Several new papers from PALab were published in Psychological Research, Journal of Vision, Consciousness and Cognition, Cognition, iScience, and Vision Research, covering visual crowding, redundancy masking, numerosity perception, mental imagery, and amblyopia.
15–19/05/2026: We presented at VSS 2026!
We presented new work at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Nihan’s Poster
Title: Synchrony perception is shaped by the similarity between foveal and peripheral representations
Zeynep’s Poster
Title: Synchrony perception of dynamic faces is limited by their eccentricity – not their distance
Anne’s Poster
Title: Visual field asymmetries in redundancy masking in amblyopia
Ångela’s Poster
Title: Redundancy masking across eccentricities in individuals with amblyopia and controls
Bilge’s Poster
Title: Atypical visual field asymmetries in redundancy masking explained by magnitude of positional noise: Evidence from amblyopia
Doğukan’s Poster
Title: Interactions of perceived number, density, and compression of visual space explain improved feature discrimination in redundancy masking
Miao’s Poster
Title: Redundancy masking explains underestimation and the radial-tangential anisotropy of numerosity perception
29–30/01/2026: We presented at GDR Vision 2026!
At the annual GDR Vision Forum in Rennes, we presented work on redundancy masking, numerosity perception, and foveal vision.
Miao’s Talk
Title: Redundancy masking underlies underestimation and the radial-tangential anisotropy in numerosity perception
Bilge’s Talk
Title: Feature enhancement in peripheral vision explained by redundancy masking, density perception and the compression of visual space
Emre’s Poster
Title: Disentangling redundancy masking and visual resolution in foveal vision
01/06/2025: Doğukan presented at ISBCS 2025
Doğukan’s Poster
Title: Neural correlates of redundancy masking
16–20/05/2025: We presented at VSS 2025!
Our lab presented several projects at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Nihan’s Talk
Title: The neural signatures of redundancy masking investigated by EEG frequency tagging
Ångela’s Poster
Title: Situating redundancy masking in the visual pathways
Bilge’s Poster
Title: Capturing appearance reveals illusory letters in visual crowding
Kaneiya’s Poster
Title: Predicting amblyopia and crowding from appearance captures
07–09/05/2025: Nicolas presented at CAOs 2025
Nicolas’s Poster
Title: The influence of thematic relations on object identification under visual crowding
07/02/2025: Nihan presented at LOVE Conference 2025
Title: Neural correlates of redundancy masking
30–31/01/2025: We presented at GDR Vision 2025!
Miao’s Talk
Title: Pooling models fail with optimal stimuli to reveal orientation averaging
Nicolas’s Presentation
Title: Spatial and temporal constraints on visual processing of thematic and action relations between objects
25–29/08/2024: We presented at ECVP 2024!
Bilge’s Talk
Title: Information loss in peripheral vision: Crowding, grouping, and redundancy masking
Nicolas’s Poster
Title: Thematic relations between objects get through the bottleneck of crowding
Bilge’s Poster
Title: The consistency of peripheral appearance
17–22/05/2024: We presented at VSS 2024!
We are excited to share the latest research from our lab presented at the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference:
Bilge’s Talk
Title: Seeing less but seeing better: Information loss and accuracy gain in redundancy masking
Miao’s Poster
Title: No pooling, no averaging: How varying the number of identical Gabors modulates orientation discrimination in the periphery
Ångela’s Poster
Title: Crowding and visual appearance in amblyopia
Veronika’s Talk
Title: Minimal retinal slip is sufficient for peak visual acuity in the fovea
20/05/2024: New publication in Scientific Reports
A manuscript by Nihan Alp, Gülce Lale, Ceren Sağlam, and Bilge Sayim titled
“The effect of processing partial information in dynamic face perception”
was published in Scientific Reports.
This study explores how humans perceive temporal information in dynamic faces, highlighting the importance of face orientation and eye blinks in enhancing sensitivity and reaction times.
15/05/2024: New publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Zeynep, Daniel, and Bilge published a manuscript titled “Attention in redundancy masking” in
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
They show that attention to peripherally presented stimuli modulates discrimination performance, but does not account for redundancy masking itself.
08/02/2024 – 09/02/2024: GDR Vision in Grenoble, France
At GDR Vision 2024, we presented on the following topics:
Ångela: Impact of crowding on visual appearance in amblyopia
Bilge: Redundancy masking and advantages of information compression in visual perception
Nicolas: The effect of thematic relations on visual crowding of familiar objects
Marica: Foveal input bias in ensemble perception within and across emotional categories
18/12/2023: Bilge’s talk at the 2023 AVA Christmas meeting
Bilge gave a talk at the 2023 AVA Christmas meeting in London on
“Information loss and accuracy gain in redundancy masking”.
ECVP 2023: 45th European Conference on Visual Perception
At the 45th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), we presented:
Ångela: Impact of crowding on visual appearance in amblyopia
Bilge: Redundancy masking in regular and irregular patterns
Miao: No pooling in crowding: Deterioration of orientation discrimination with increasing numbers of identical Gabors
Mert: Temporal modulation of redundancy masking
19–24/05/2023: Dandan and Sabrina presented at VSS 2023!
Dandan and Sabrina presented their findings at VSS:
“Unbiased by redundant signals: Negativity bias for emotion perception of single but not two identical faces”
and
“Information compression determines the appearance of repeating patterns in peripheral vision”.
16/04/2023: Bilge presented at the 22nd Forum of Cognitive Sciences
Bilge presented the European Master “Psychologie des Processus Neurocognitifs et Sciences Affectives” (PPNSA)
at the 22nd Forum of Cognitive Sciences in Paris.
PPNSA is a collaboration between SCALab, the University of Naples, and the University of Minho.