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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of novel, but natural, stimuli.

Kira Isabel Dehn, Guido Maiello, Frieder Tom Hartmann, Yaniv Morgenstern, Sara Joy Hawkins, Thomas Offner, Joshua Walter, Thomas Hassenklöver, Ivan Manzini, Roland W Fleming

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Kira Isabel DehnDepartment of Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany.
Guido MaielloSchool of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, England, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6625-2583
Frieder Tom HartmannDepartment of Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4448-5612
Yaniv MorgensternErasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-6902-667X
Sara Joy HawkinsSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, England, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7086-7262
Thomas OffnerGeorg August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0228-2545
Joshua WalterDepartment of Animal Physiology and Molecular Biomedicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-0812-8396
Thomas HassenklöverDepartment of Animal Physiology and Molecular Biomedicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9895-1263
Ivan ManziniDepartment of Animal Physiology and Molecular Biomedicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3575-9637
Roland W FlemingDepartment of Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5033-5069

Funding

Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftH2020 European Research CouncilHessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Humans excel at categorizing objects by shape. This facility involves identifying shape features that objects have in common with other members of their class and relies-at least in part-on semantic/cognitive constructs. For example, plants sprout branches, fish grow fins, shoes are moulded to our feet. Can humans parse shapes according to the processes that give shapes their key characteristics, even when such processes are hidden? To answer this, we investigated how humans perceive the shape of cells from the olfactory system of

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Form PerceptionAdultAnimalsFemaleHumansLarvaMaleXenopus laevisbiological cell classificationgenerative modelsperceptual organizationthree-dimensional shape perceptionvisual similarity

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PMID40393522
PMCPMC12092133

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