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  1. Visual preference for abstract curvature and for interior spaces: Beyond undergraduate student samples.

    Article • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, December 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  2. A Study of Objects With Smooth or Sharp Features Created as Line Drawings by Individuals Trained in Design

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  3. The Role of Perspective Taking on Attention: A Review of the Special Issue on the Reflexive Attentional Shift Phenomenon

    Article • Vision, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Marco Bertamini, Dr Christopher James Wilson

  4. Eye centring in selfies posted on Instagram

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2019, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  5. An advantage for smooth compared with angular contours in the speed of processing shape.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, July 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  6. Exploring the Extent in the Visual Field of the Honeycomb and Extinction Illusions

    Article • i-Perception, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  7. The Bathtub Illusion

    Article • i-Perception, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  8. Symmetry preference in shapes, faces, flowers and landscapes

    Article • PeerJ, June 2019, PeerJ

    Marco Bertamini

  9. Representation of symmetry in the extrastriate visual cortex from temporal integration of parts: An EEG/ERP study

    Article • NeuroImage, June 2019, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  10. Sustained response to symmetry in extrastriate areas after stimulus offset: An EEG study

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  11. The effect of clustering on perceived quantity in humans (Homo sapiens) and in chicks (Gallus gallus).

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, August 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  12. Reasoning About Visibility in Mirrors: A Comparison Between a Human Observer and a Camera

    Article • Perception, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  13. Blindness to Curvature and Blindness to Illusory Curvature

    Article • i-Perception, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  14. The neural basis of visual symmetry and its role in mid- and high-level visual processing

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, March 2018, Wiley

    Marco Bertamini

  15. Visual cortex activation predicts visual preference: Evidence from Britain and Egypt

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  16. Programming Visual Illusions for Everyone

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  17. Opposition and Identicalness: Two Basic Components of Adults’ Perception and Mental Representation of Symmetry

    Article • Symmetry, July 2017, MDPI AG

    Marco Bertamini

  18. Attentional interference is modulated by salience not sentience

    Article • Acta Psychologica, July 2017, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini, Dr Christopher James Wilson

  19. The Venus Effect

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marco Bertamini

  20. Electrophysiological responses to symmetry presented in the left or in the right visual hemifield

    Article • Cortex, January 2017, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  21. Symmetry Lasts Longer Than Random, but Only for Brief Presentations

    Article • i-Perception, November 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Ruth S Ogden, Marco Bertamini

  22. The Honeycomb illusion: Uniform textures not perceived as such

    Article • i-Perception, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  23. The Role of Visual Eccentricity on Preference for Abstract Symmetry

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2016, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  24. A Gaze-Driven Evolutionary Algorithm to Study Aesthetic Evaluation of Visual Symmetry

    Article • i-Perception, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  25. Experiencing art. In the brain of the beholder

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, February 2016, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  26. Scaling of the extrastriate neural response to symmetry

    Article • Vision Research, December 2015, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  27. Does Preference for Abstract Patterns Relate to Information Processing and Perceived Duration?

    Article • i-Perception, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Ruth S Ogden, Marco Bertamini

  28. Comparing Angular and Curved Shapes in Terms of Implicit Associations and Approach/Avoidance Responses

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2015, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  29. Brain Activity in Response to Visual Symmetry

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  30. Four theoretical dichotomies in the motion extrapolation literature

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  31. Exogenous cueing modulates preference formation

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  32. Electrophysiological responses to symmetry presented in the visual hemifields

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  33. It is more difficult to judge global properties of shapes described by vertices than shapes described by curvature extrema.

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  34. Aesthetic Preference for Polygon Shape

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  35. Selfie and the City: A World-Wide, Large, and Ecologically Valid Database Reveals a Two-Pronged Side Bias in Naïve Self-Portraits

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2015, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  36. Do observers like curvature or do they dislike angularity?

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, April 2015, Wiley

    Marco Bertamini

  37. Perceptual Organization and the Aperture Problem

    Article • April 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marco Bertamini

  38. How Men and Women Respond to Hypothetical Parental Discovery: The Importance of Genetic Relatedness

    Article • Evolutionary Psychology, April 2015, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  39. Aesthetic Judgements of Abstract Dynamic Configurations

    Article • Art & Perception, January 2015, Brill

    Marco Bertamini

  40. The vista paradox: Framing or contrast?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  41. Right-lateralized alpha desynchronization during regularity discrimination: Hemispheric specialization or directed spatial attention?

    Article • Psychophysiology, December 2014, Wiley

    Marco Bertamini

  42. Examining visual complexity and its influence on perceived duration

    Article • Journal of Vision, December 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  43. Brain Activity in Response to Visual Symmetry

    Article • Symmetry, December 2014, MDPI AG

    Marco Bertamini

  44. Conditions for view invariance in the neural response to visual symmetry

    Article • Psychophysiology, October 2014, Wiley

    Marco Bertamini

  45. How do we update mental simulations at the right speed?

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  46. The use of realistic and mechanical hands in the rubber hand illusion, and the relationship to hemispheric differences

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, July 2014, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  47. Figures and Holes

    Article • July 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Marco Bertamini

  48. Understanding what is visible in a mirror or through a window before and after updating the position of an object

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, June 2014, Frontiers

    Marco Bertamini

  49. Electrophysiological analysis of the affective congruence between pattern regularity and word valence

    Article • Neuropsychologia, May 2014, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  50. The Pleasantness of Visual Symmetry: Always, Never or Sometimes

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2014, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  51. Visual symmetry in objects and gaps

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  52. ‘Selfies’ Reveal Systematic Deviations from Known Principles of Photographic Composition

    Article • Art & Perception, January 2014, Brill

    Marco Bertamini

  53. Do different types of dynamic extrapolation rely on the same mechanism?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  54. Anisotropy and polarization of space: Evidence from naïve optics and phenomenological psychophysics

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Marco Bertamini

  55. Electrophysiological responses to visuospatial regularity

    Article • Psychophysiology, August 2013, Wiley

    Marco Bertamini

  56. The visual system prioritizes locations near corners of surfaces (not just locations near a corner)

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  57. Visual and emotional analysis of symmetry

    Article • Journal of Vision, July 2013, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  58. Auditory clicks distort perceived velocity but only when the system has to rely on extraretinal signals

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  59. Testing Whether and When Abstract Symmetric Patterns Produce Affective Responses

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  60. Attractiveness is Influenced by the Relationship between Postures of the Viewer and the Viewed Person

    Article • i-Perception, May 2013, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  61. The role of convexity in perception of symmetry and in visual short-term memory

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, April 2013, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  62. Self-Portraits: Smartphones Reveal a Side Bias in Non-Artists

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2013, PLOS

    Marco Bertamini

  63. Implicit association of symmetry with positive valence, high arousal and simplicity

    Article • i-Perception, January 2013, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  64. Symmetry perception and affective responses: A combined EEG/EMG study

    Article • Neuropsychologia, December 2012, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  65. Processing convexity and concavity along a 2-D contour: figure–ground, structural shape, and attention

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  66. The shape of a hole and that of the surface-with-hole cannot be analyzed separately

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  67. Automatic Affective Evaluation of Visual Symmetry

    Article • i-Perception, May 2012, Pion Ltd

    Marco Bertamini

  68. The Role of Figure-Ground in the Corner Enhancement Effect

    Article • i-Perception, May 2012, Pion Ltd

    Marco Bertamini

  69. Bite-Size Science and Its Undesired Side Effects

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Marcus R Munafo, Marco Bertamini

  70. Grouping by closure influences subjective regularity and implicit preference

    Article • i-Perception, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  71. Implicit affective evaluation of visual symmetry.

    Article • Emotion, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  72. Top-down knowledge about reflection modulates response competition to multisensory stimuli

    Article • Seeing and Perceiving, January 2012, Brill

    Marco Bertamini

  73. The rubber hand illusion in a mirror

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, December 2011, Elsevier

    Carole Bode, Marco Bertamini

  74. The anterior bias in visual art: The case of images of animals

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Carole Bode, Marco Bertamini

  75. The Rubber-Hand Illusion in a Mirror

    Article • i-Perception, May 2011, Pion Ltd

    Marco Bertamini

  76. The integration of local chromatic motion signals is sensitive to contrast polarity

    Article • Visual Neuroscience, March 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Marco Bertamini

  77. The effect of left-right reversal on film: Watching Kurosawa reversed

    Article • i-Perception, January 2011, SAGE Publications

    Carole Bode, Marco Bertamini

  78. The Venus effect in real life and in photographs

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  79. Visual and auditory accessory stimulus offset and the Simon effect

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, October 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  80. Does Left–Right Orientation Matter in the Perceived Expressiveness of Pictures? A Study of Bewick's Animals (1753–1828)

    Article • Perception, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  81. The tendency to overestimate what is visible in a planar mirror amongst adults and children

    Article • The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Marco Bertamini

  82. Haptic perception after a change in hand size

    Article • Neuropsychologia, May 2010, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  83. Naïve predictions of motion and orientation in mirrors: From what we see to what we expect reflections to do

    Article • Acta Psychologica, May 2010, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  84. S-cone input into global motion processing

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  85. Global motion processing: the Red-Green mechanism

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  86. Vision, Haptics, and Attention: New Data from a Multisensory Necker Cube

    Article • Perception, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  87. Eye Movements: Spatial and Temporal Aspects

    Article • i-Perception, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Galina V. Paramei, Marco Bertamini

  88. Haptic Perception Hand Size Task

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  89. Sensitivity to Reflection and Translation is Modulated by Objectness

    Article • Perception, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  90. False beliefs and naive beliefs: They can be good for you

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Marco Bertamini

  91. The effect of leg length on perceived attractiveness of simplified stimuli.

    Article • Journal of Social Evolutionary and Cultural Psychology, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  92. Estimation and representation of head size (people overestimate the size of their head - evidence starting from the 15th century)

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, November 2008, Wiley

    Marco Bertamini

  93. Understanding 2D projections on mirrors and on windows

    Article • Spatial Vision, May 2008, Brill

    Marco Bertamini

  94. Rapid Figure – Ground Responses to Stereograms Reveal an Advantage for a Convex Foreground

    Article • Perception, April 2008, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  95. Men Do not Have a Stronger Preference than Women for Self-resemblant Child Faces

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini, Dr Paola Bressan

  96. Integration of ordinal and metric cues in depth processing

    Article • Journal of Vision, February 2008, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  97. Detection of convexity and concavity in context.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  98. Through the Looking Glass: How the Relationship between an Object and its Reflection Affects the Perception of Distance and Size

    Article • Perception, November 2007, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  99. A visual–haptic Necker cube reveals temporal constraints on intersensory merging during perceptual exploration

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2007, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  100. When S-cones contribute to chromatic global motion processing

    Article • Visual Neuroscience, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Marco Bertamini

  101. Overestimation of the projected size of objects on the surface of mirrors and windows.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  102. Errors in Judging Information about Reflections in Mirrors

    Article • Perception, September 2006, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  103. Amodal completion and visual holes (static and moving)

    Article • Acta Psychologica, September 2006, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  104. Who Owns the Contour of a Visual Hole?

    Article • Perception, July 2006, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  105. Visual search for a circular region perceived as a figure versus as a hole: Evidence of the importance of part structure

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, July 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  106. The perceived structural shape of thin (wire-like) objects is different from that of silhouettes

    Article • Perception, January 2006, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  107. On what people know about images on mirrors

    Article • Cognition, November 2005, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  108. Detection of change in shape and its relation to part structure

    Article • Acta Psychologica, September 2005, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  109. Contour curvature polarity and surface interpolation

    Article • Vision Research, April 2005, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  110. 2 The representation of naïve knowledge about physics

    Article • January 2005, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  111. Boundary Extension: The Role of Magnification, Object Size, Context, and Binocular Information.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  112. Naive Optics: Acting on Mirror Reflections.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2005, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  113. Evidence for two unipolar S-cone pathways for global motion processing

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2004, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Marco Bertamini

  114. Illusory surfaces affect the integration of local motion signals

    Article • Vision Research, February 2004, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  115. Early Computation of Contour Curvature and Part Structure: Evidence from Holes

    Article • Perception, January 2004, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  116. The chromatic input to global motion perception

    Article • Visual Neuroscience, July 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Marco Bertamini

  117. The Venus Effect: People's Understanding of Mirror Reflections in Paintings

    Article • Perception, May 2003, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  118. The shape of holes

    Article • Cognition, February 2003, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  119. Naive optics: Predicting and perceiving reflections in mirrors.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  120. No within-object advantage for detection of rotation

    Article • Acta Psychologica, July 2002, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  121. Representational momentum, internalized dynamics, and perceptual adaptation

    Article • Visual Cognition, February 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Marco Bertamini

  122. Naive optics: Understanding the geometry of mirror reflections.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  123. Naive optics: Understanding the geometry of mirror reflections.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  124. The Importance of Being Convex: An Advantage for Convexity when Judging Position

    Article • Perception, November 2001, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini

  125. If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around, does Chasles' theorem still apply?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, August 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Marco Bertamini

  126. Contour symmetry detection: the influence of axis orientation and number of objects

    Article • Acta Psychologica, September 2000, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  127. Hierarchical motion organization in random dot configurations.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  128. Understanding projectile acceleration.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  129. Hierarchical motion organization in random dot configurations.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  130. Understanding projectile acceleration.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2000, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  131. Relative size perception at a distance is best at eye level

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, June 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  132. Detection of symmetry and perceptual organization: The way a lock-and-key process works

    Article • Acta Psychologica, February 1997, Elsevier

    Marco Bertamini

  133. Amodal completion of partly occluded surfaces: Is there a mosaic stage?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1997, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  134. Amodal completion of partly occluded surfaces: Is there a mosaic stage?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 1997, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Marco Bertamini

  135. Hierarchical Motion Organization in Random-Dot Configurations

    Article • Perception, August 1996, Pion Ltd

    Marco Bertamini

  136. Memory for position and

    Article • Memory & Cognition, July 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  137. Identifying contours from occlusion events

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, July 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini

  138. Perceptual Alternations in Stereokinesis

    Article • Perception, February 1988, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini, Dr Paola Bressan

  139. Olympus: an ambient intelligence architecture on the verge of reality

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Marco Bertamini