Journal Articles

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2024). Perceived gaze dynamics in social interactions can alter (and even reverse) the perceived temporal order of events. Cognition, 247:105745, 1–8. [Full Text] [Supplement]

Chen, Y. -C., Pollick, F., & Lu, H. (2023). Aesthetic preferences for prototypical movements in human actions. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8:55, 1–13. [Full Text] [OSF]

Chen, Y. -C., Pollick, F., & Lu, H. (2022). Aesthetic preferences for causality in biological movements arise from visual processes. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 1803–1811. [Full Text] [Demo] [OSF]

Chen, Y. -C., Deza, A., & Konkle, T. (2022). How big should this object be? Perceptual influences on viewing-size preferences. Cognition, 225:105114, 1–11. [Full Text] [OSF]

Chen, Y. -C., Chang, A., Rosenberg, M. D., Feng, D., Scholl, B. J., & Trainor, L. J. (2022). "Taste typicality" is a foundational and multi-modal dimension of ordinary aesthetic experience. Current Biology, 32, 1837–1842. [Full Text] [Experiment Demo] [OSF]

Forman, I. R., Chen, Y. -C., Scholl, B. J., & Alvarez, G. A. (2021). The center cannot hold: Variations of frame width help to explain the ‘inward bias’ in aesthetic preferences. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 2151–2158. [Full Text] [OSF]

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). ‘Gaze deflection’ reveals how gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the eyes. Proceedings of the National Academy of the United States of America, 117, 19825–19829. [Full Text] [Demo] [Supplement]

Yousif, S. R., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Systematic angular biases in the representation of visual space. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 3124–3143. [Full Text]

Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues. Cognition, 176, 209–214. [Full Text] [Demo]

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2016). The perception of history: Seeing causal history in static shapes induces illusory motion perception. Psychological Science, 27, 923–930. [Full Text] [Demo]

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Seeing and liking: Biased perception of ambiguous figures consistent with the 'inward bias' in aesthetic preferences. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 21, 1444–1451. [Full Text]

Chen, Y. -C., & Yeh, S. -L. (2012). Look into my eyes and I will see you: Unconscious processing of human gaze. Consciousness & Cognition, 21, 1703–1710. [Full Text]

Manuscripts

Chen, Y. -C., Fu, S., Feng, D., Taylor, M., Chang, J., Chi, X., & Lu, H. (under review). Prototype principle explains aesthetics for general visual experiences beyond isolated objects. [Preprint]

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., van Buren, B., & Scholl, B. J. (under review). Foundations of social perception: Eye contact or ‘mind contact’?

Conference Papers

Chen, Y. -C, Pollick, F., & Lu, H. (2021). Aesthetic experience is influenced by causality in biological movements. Talk presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci), 7/28, World Wide Web, Earth. [Full Text] [Demo]

Deza, A., Chen, Y. -C, Long, B., & Konkle, T. (2019). Accelerated texforms: Alternative methods for generating unrecognizable object images with preserved mid-level features. Poster presented at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), 9/15, Berlin, Germany. [Full Text] [Poster] [Code]

Huang, T. -H., Kao, C. -T, Chen, Y. -C., Yeh, S. -L., & Chen, H. H. (2012). A visibility model for quality assessment of dimmed images. Poster presented at the 4th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), 7/06, Yarra Valley, Australia. [Full Text]

Conference Presentations

Chen, Y. -C., Fu, S., Feng, D., Taylor, M., Chang, J., Chi, X., & Lu, H. (2023). The prototype effect in aesthetic preferences for visual scenes: A computational account. Poster presented at the 2023 Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/22, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Yun, Y., Fu, S., Chen, Y. -C., Lu, H. (2023). Force representations support social perception of moving shapes. Poster presented at the 2023 Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/24, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Chang, J., Chen, Y. -C., & Lu, H. (2022). What do we see in a reflection? Seeing chirality correlates with aesthetic experience. Poster presented at the 2022 Virtual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (V-VSS), 6/1, World Wide Web, Earth.

Chen, Y. -C., Pollick, F. E., & Lu, H. (2022). What makes an elegant walk: Aesthetic preferences for prototypical movements in human walking actions. Talk given at the 2022 Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/16, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Fu, S., Chen. Y. -C., Colombatto, C., Lu, H. (2022). Visual impressions of social avoidance from moving shapes. Poster presented at the 2022 Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/14, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., Pollick, F. E., & Lu, H. (2021). Aesthetic experience is influenced by causality in biological movements. Poster presented at the 2021 Virtual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (V-VSS), 5/24, World Wide Web, Earth. [Poster] [Walkthrough] [Abstract]

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2021). Gazing to look vs. gazing to think: Gaze cueing is modulated by the perception of others’ external vs. internal attention. Poster presented at the 2021 Virtual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (V-VSS), 5/23, World Wide Web, Earth. [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., Deza, A., & Konkle, T. (2020). How big should this object be? Perceptual influences on viewing-size preferences. Poster presented at the 2020 Virtual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (V-VSS), 6/19-24, World Wide Web, Earth. [Poster] [Walkthrough] [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., Deza, A., & Konkle, T. (2020). How big should this object be? Perceptual influences on viewing-size preferences. Talk given at the 6th Visual Properties Driving Visual Preference (VPDVP) Workshop, 6/12, World Wide Web, Earth.

Chen, Y. -C., Chang, A., Rosenberg, M. D., Scholl, B. J., & Trainor, L. J. (2019). Are you the sort of person who would like this? Quantifying the typicality of aesthetic taste across seeing and hearing. Talk given at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/20, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Yousif, S. R., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2019). Systematic biases in the representation of visual space. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/20, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., Colombatto, C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Looking into the future: An inward bias in aesthetic experience driven only by gaze cues. Poster presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/23, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Poster] [Abstract]

Yousif, S., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). The origin of spatial biases: Memory, perception, or action? Poster presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/23, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2018). Gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the gaze: Investigations of 'gaze deflection'. Talk given at the 2018 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/19, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Colombatto, C., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Gaze cueing is tuned to extract the mind behind the gaze: Investigations of ‘gaze deflection’. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), 8/29, Berlin, Germany.

Chen, Y. -C., Raila, H., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Sad minds seeking happy stimuli: Trait happiness predicts how quickly happy faces reach visual awareness. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/23, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Raila, H., Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2017). Unhappy people quickly promote happy faces into awareness. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Affective Science (SAS), 4/29, Boston, MA, USA.

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). Seeing history: The perception of causal history induces illusory motion perception in static shapes. Talk given at the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), 7/11,Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2015). The perception of history: Seeing causal history in static shapes is powerful enough to induce illusory motion perception. Poster presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/19, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Poster] [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Aesthetic influences on visual awareness?: An 'inward bias' in inattentional blindness. Talk given at the 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision (APCV), 7/21, Takamatsu, Japan.

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2014). Seeing and liking from the outside in: Consistent inward biases in visual perception and aesthetic preferences. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/17, St. Pete Beach, FL, USA. [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., & Scholl, B. J. (2013). Seeing and liking: Biased perception of ambiguous figures based on aesthetic preferences for how objects should face within a frame. Poster presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 5/10, Naples, FL, USA. [Poster] [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., & Yeh, S. -L. (2011). Dissociating attention and audiovisual integration in the sound-facilitatory effect on metacontrast masking. Poster presented at the 12th International Multisensory Research Forum (IMRF), 10/19, Fukuoka, Japan. [Poster] [Abstract]

Chen, Y. -C., & Yeh, S. -L. (2011). Orienting or intention? Unconscious processing of human gaze. Talk given at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), 6/12, Kyoto, Japan. [Abstract]