Peter Neri

Scene Structure Predicts Perceptual Decisions in Naturalistic Detection Tasks

This study shows that perceptual decisions in natural scenes are influenced by background context, with texture entropy and edge density as key features, supported by psychophysics, AR, DNNs, and EEG.

Visual detection of cryptic displays in jumping spiders

This study investigates how jumping spiders detect moving targets through their secondary eyes and finds that they respond to spatiotemporal luminance changes without requiring full motion segmentation.

Perceptual processes as charting operators

The paper introduces a geometric framework to model sensory operators by representing perceptual processes as distance measurements over a sensory manifold, capturing empirical effects of sensory computations.

Cuttlefish interact with multimodal 'arm wave sign' displays

This study identifies and tests a new multimodal communication display in cuttlefish, showing it involves both visual and mechanoreceptive signals.

Deep networks may capture biological behaviour for shallow, but not deep, empirical characterizations

The paper evaluates if deep convolutional networks can replicate human visual behavior at different levels of characterization, finding they fail at deeper levels but match shallow trends.

Mechanisms of spectrotemporal modulation detection for normal- and hearing-impaired listeners

This study investigates how normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners detect spectrotemporal modulations using a psychophysical reverse-correlation framework and finds comparable non-linear processing strategies with differences in temporal modulation tuning.