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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 19h

Congratulations Dr. Pistolas! Our PhD student @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD this week! We congratulate her on this achievement and her hard work and thank the jury members for their questions. Well done!

Eleftheria Pistolas @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social · 22h

I am delighted to share that on October 6 I successfully defended my PhD thesis titled “Inside-out dynamics of multisensory perception: A mixed-methods approach from laboratory to art contexts” and obtained the degree: Doctor of Psychology!

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 13d

We are just as thrilled! Our PhD student @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social received the Early Career Best Paper Prize for her paper published in @pec-ipe.bsky.social ⬇️

Eleftheria Pistolas @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social · 13d

I’m thrilled that our latest paper, “Wave after wave: The suggestibility of noise in the experience of multisensory hallucinations under multimodal Ganzfeld stimulation”, has just been published in i-Perception and received the Early Career Best Paper Prize!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · 28d

It was a pleasure introducing PsyNet and its many applications at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology today! Thanks @felixhermans.bsky.social for the invitation and all PsyNet developers, incl. @pmcharrison.bsky.social and @norijacoby.bsky.social for creating such an amazing platform!

felixhermans.bsky.social @felixhermans.bsky.social · 28d

Tremendously grateful to @elinevg.bsky.social for providing an introduction to PsyNet (www.psynet.dev) at the Laboratory for Experimental Social Psychology in KU Leuven today!

PsyNet is a new platform uniquely suited to crafting complex experimental designs in an efficient manner!

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 28d

PhD Candidate Michiel Willems will explain what it means for art to be AI mediated.

Postdoc Dr. Stefanie De Winter will share a critical assessment of neural networks and vision language models for art historical purposes.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 28d

Together with Dr. Patrick Ceyssens our PI Prof. Johan Wagemans will present "Lux & Looks: An Art Installation and Artistic Research on Light, Reflection, Images, Perception and Memory", a close interdisciplinary collaboration between artist and scientist.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 28d

Postdoc Dr. Stefanie De Winter will share how context shapes the aesthetic experience of abstract art.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 28d

PhD Candidate @chrislinden.bsky.social will give a talk about the impact of information on art perception through multiple museum studies and PhD Candidate @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social Koßmann will share results from an empirical study investigating the effect of image fidelity on aesthetic ratings.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 28d

The GestaltReVision Lab is en route to Paris!

We are looking forward to joining the Sixteenth International Conference on The Image and the Tenth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies.

We will contribute talks to both conferences; more information in the comments below ⬇️

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ECVP 2025 @ecvp.bsky.social · Aug 27

#ECVP2025 In addition to yesterday's Illusion Night we would like to mention the contribution of @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social about Open-Source Toolboxes for aesthetics and perception.

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Lisa Kossmann @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great first poster session at @ecvp.bsky.social! In case you missed me or want to chat more about #ImageFidelity and #Aesthetics or #QuantitativeImageProperties, please come find me during the breaks! #ECVP2025

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

Additionally @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social welcome you at their booth at Demo Night where you can challenge your colleagues to create the most complex stimulus using the #OCTAToolbox and #AestethicsToolbox

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

📊 Maarten Leemans will present his poster „GridSamp: An Open-Source Python Toolbox for Flexible Grid-Based Image Sampling“ in Poster Session 5 on Wednesday at 10:00-11:30.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

Additionally, @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social will welcome you at their Demo Night Booth which will feature the „OCTA & QIP CHALLENGE“ in which you and your colleagues can challenge each other to create the most complex stimulus using the #OCTAToolbox and #AestheticsToolbox

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

📊 @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social will present her poster „Evaluating the WikiArt Dataset using Quantitative Image Properties, Ratings, and Art History“ in the first Poster Session on Monday at 10:00-11:30.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

🎤 @elinevg.bsky.social will give a talk on „Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space“ in Talk Session 31 - Art & Aesthetics on Thursday at 8:30-10:00.

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

🎤 Fatemeh Behrad will be presenting her work „CHARM: Bridging Human Perception and Computer Vision for Aesthetics“ in Talk Session 2 - Computational Modeling on Monday 8:30-10:00

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

The GestaltReVision Lab is headed to #ECVP2025! We are looking forward to a great conference and sharing our work! See below for more information on our contributions ⤵️

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

We had a great time at #VSAC2025!
A big thank you to the organizers and other attendees for making this such a memorable and inspiring event. Now on the road to #ECVP2025!

#VisualScienceofArt #EuropeanConferenceonVisualPerception

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maarten Leemans using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 22

Johan Wagemans gives the Visual Science of Art Conference a taste of the latest results from his lab’s impressive Gestalts Relate Aesthetic Preferences to Perceptual Analysis (GRAPPA) project.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 21

Christopher Linden comparing viewers’ experiences of the same art exhibit in real life, as a virtual tour, and as static images:

#VSAC2025
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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 20

Congratulations to our PhD student @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social who published the first paper of her PhD in Neuroscience of Consciousness! 📊 academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 19

During Saturdays poster session 3, Anne-Sofie Maerten presents her poster on "The Leuven Art Personalized Image Set (LAPIS)" and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social shares her work on "DODA: Introducing A Database of Datasets for Aesthetics" in the same session!

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 19

Also on Saturday, Maarten Leemans will give a talk in session 5 titled: "Using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings". ⬇️

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