ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Differential Effects of Orientation and Spatial-Frequency Spectra on Visual Unpleasantness.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Bringing nature indoors: characterizing the unique contribution of fractal structure and the effects of Euclidean context on perception of fractal patterns.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A mechanistic account of visual discomfort.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Vegetation Dispersion, Interspersion, and Landscape Preference.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Photophobia in migraine: A symptom cluster?Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache · 2021Review
- Visual Discomfort and Variations in Chromaticity in Art and Nature.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Aesthetics and Psychological Effects of Fractal Based Design.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Object Clusters or Spectral Energy? Assessing the Relative Contributions of Image Phase and Amplitude Spectra to Trypophobia.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Increasing psychophysical evidence suggests that specific image features - or statistics - can appear unpleasant or induce visual discomfort in humans. Such unpleasantness tends to be particularly profound if the image's amplitude spectrum deviates from the regular 1/
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