ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Visual Discomfort and Variations in Chromaticity in Art and Nature.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- The perceived beauty of art is not strongly calibrated to the statistical regularities of real-world scenes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Walking on Virtual Surface Patterns Leads to Changed Control Strategies.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The color of fruits in photographs and still life paintings.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Assessing Trial-to-Trial Variability in Auditory ERPs in Autism and Schizophrenia.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- A mechanistic account of visual discomfort.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Auditory discomfort in visually sensitive individuals.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Optimal Learning Samples for Two-Constant Kubelka-Munk Theory to Match the Color of Pre-colored Fiber Blends.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Visual Discomfort and Variations in Chromaticity in Art and Nature.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Sensory sensitivity and visual discomfort are not associated with altered gamma oscillations: A test of the excitation-inhibition hypothesis.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Visual discomfort is related to the statistical regularity of visual images. The contribution of luminance contrast to visual discomfort is well understood and can be framed in terms of a theory of efficient coding of natural stimuli, and linked to metabolic demand. While color is important in our interaction with nature, the effect of color on visual discomfort has received less attention. In this study, we build on the established association between visual discomfort and differences in chromaticity across space. We average the local differences in chromaticity in an image and show that this average is a good predictor of visual discomfort from the image. It accounts for part of the variance left unexplained by variations in luminance. We show that the local chromaticity difference in uncomfortable stimuli is high compared to that typical in natural scenes, except in particular infrequent conditions such as the arrangement of colorful fruits against foliage. Overall, our study discloses a new link between visual ecology and discomfort whereby discomfort arises when adaptive perceptual mechanisms are overstimulated by specific classes of stimuli rarely found in nature.
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