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Dirk Bernhardt-Walther
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Latest funding
- $24,382
The role of perceptual grouping in the aesthetic pleasure of viewing real-world scenes
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $71,756
The role of perceptual grouping in the aesthetic pleasure of viewing real-world scenes
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $282,000
Computational and neural mechanisms of perceptual grouping
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
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The role of perceptual grouping in the aesthetic pleasure of viewing real-world scenes
Principal investigators: Bernhardt-Walther, Dirk
Keywords: empirical aesthetics; Gestalt psychology; perceptual grouping; aesthetic pleasure; real-world scenes; processing fluency
The role of perceptual grouping in the aesthetic pleasure of viewing real-world scenes
Principal investigators: Bernhardt-Walther, Dirk
Keywords: empirical aesthetics; Gestalt psychology; perceptual grouping; aesthetic pleasure; real-world scenes; processing fluency
Computational and neural mechanisms of perceptual grouping
Principal investigators: Bernhardt-Walther, Dirk
Keywords: perceptual grouping; mid-level vision; scene perception; visual perception; fmri; psychophysics; gestalt psychology; symmetry; parallelism; convolutional neural networks
The role of symmetry in the aesthetic pleasure of viewing real-world scenes
Principal investigators: Bernhardt-Walther, Dirk
Keywords: (1) Symmetry; (2) Aesthetics; (3) Perceptual pleasure; (4) Real-world scenes; (5) Processing fluency
Neural mechanisms of perceiving dynamic real-world environments
Principal investigators: BernhardtWalther, Dirk
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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