Draft:Marco Bertamini

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Marco Bertamini
Born (1966-01-06) 6 January 1966 (age 58)
Vigevano, Italy
NationalityBritish and Italian
Alma materUniversity of Padova
University of Virginia
Known forThe Venus effect; The Honeycomb illusion; Visual holes
Scientific career
FieldsPerception
Aesthetics
Naive Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Liverpool
University of Padova

Marco Bertamini (born 06 January 1966 in Vigevano, Italy) is a professor of psychology in the Department of General Psychology, of the University of Padova, Italy. He is most known for discovering the Venus Effect and the Honeycomb Illusion,[1]. The latter was a finalist of the Best Illusion of the Year Contest in 2015.

Career[edit]

Marco Bertamini graduated in Experimental Psychology in 1990 from the University of Padova. That same year, he moved to the United States and obtained an MA and a PHD from the University of Virginia. He was a Lecturer at Staffordshire University, and from 2000 to 2017 worked at the University of Liverpool where he established the Visual Perception Lab [2]. His research is mainly focused on visual perception, empirical aesthetics, illusions, and naive physics.

Research[edit]

Symmetry, shape, and figure/ground[edit]

Comparing types of symmetries, Bertamini has described their role in perceptual organisation, using both phenomonology [3], psychophysics [4] and electrophysiology [5].

The recently created catalogue of results has over 1 TB of data [6] and is an example of good practice in open science. He has clarified aspects of figure/ground segmentation, the special case of closure (visual holes), and how contour polarity relates to perception of solid shape [7].

Mirror cognition[edit]

Starting from naive physics he expanded the area into naive optics: children and adults make systematic mistakes in their descriptions of how mirrors work and in their predictions about mirror images. One striking example is the Venus effect, discovered and named by him in 2003. [8]

This painting by Diego Velázquez known as the Rokeby Venus is likely to produce a Venus effect.

Aesthetics[edit]

He has studied the sense of beauty, aesthetic experiences and physical attractiveness, both in the case of works of art and with controlled stimuli. In some cases, perception mechanisms can explain preferences, and these preferences manifest themselves in art and in aesthetics judgments. He has studied preference for symmetry [9] and for smooth curvature. [10]

Numerosity[edit]

Visual illusions of Numerosity have a long tradition and they are now integrated with formal models. He has studied the perception of numerosity and its relation to clustering. [11]

Body image[edit]

Multisensory information affects inner models of our body as shown by the Rubber hand illusion. Bertamini demonstrated the flexibility of the Rubber Hand Illusion and its effect on haptic perception. [12]

Activities[edit]

In 2015 he was the main organiser of the European Conference in Visual Perception (ECVP)[13] in Liverpool. He was part of the organisation of the online version of ECVP in 2021. He is an editor on the following journals: Perception, British Journal of Psychology, and Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

In 2017 he published a book that combines an introduction to visual illusions with an introduction to programming in Python. Bertamini, Marco (2018). Programming Visual Illusions for Everyone. Vision, Illusion and Perception. Vol. 2. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64066-2. ISBN 978-3-319-64065-5. [14] He has also authored various short stories.

He has created and is the coordinator of the Working group on Psychology of Art and Neuroesthetics (PAN), within the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Bertamini, M.; Herzog, M.; Bruno, N. (2016). "The Honeycomb illusion: Uniform textures not perceived as such". i-Perception. 7 (4). doi:10.1177/2041669516660727. PMC 5030753. PMID 27698980.
  2. ^ "Visual Perception Lab". 22 October 1999. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  3. ^ Bertamini, M.; Hulleman, J. (2006). "Amodal completion and visual holes (static and moving)" (PDF). Acta Psychologica. 123 (1–2): 55–72. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.04.006. PMID 16905108. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  4. ^ Bertamini, M.; Friedenberg, Jay; Kubovy, Michael (1997). "Detection of symmetry and perceptual organization: How a lock-and-key process works" (PDF). Acta Psychologica. 95 (2): 119–140. doi:10.1016/S0001-6918(96)00038-8. PMID 9062061. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  5. ^ Bertamini, M.; Silvanto, J.; Norcia, A.M.; Makin, A.D.J.; Wagemans, J. (2018). "The neural basis of visual symmetry and its role in middle and high-level visual processing" (PDF). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1426: 111–126. doi:10.1111/nyas.13667. PMID 29604083. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  6. ^ Makin, Alexis David James; Bertamini, Marco; Tyson-Carr, John; Rampone, Giulia; Derpsch, Yiovanna; Wright, Damien; Karakashevska, Elena (7 October 2020). "The complete Liverpool SPN catalogue". Open Science Framework. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/2SNCJ. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  7. ^ Bertamini, M.; Wagemans, J. (2013). "Processing convexity and concavity along a 2D contour: Figure-ground, structural shape, and attention" (PDF). Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 20 (2): 191–207. doi:10.3758/s13423-012-0347-2. PMID 23188740. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
  8. ^ Bertamini, M.; Latto, R.; Spooner, A. (2003). "The Venus effect: people's understanding of mirror reflections in paintings" (PDF). Perception. 32 (5): 593–599. doi:10.1068/p3418. PMID 12854645. S2CID 33410814. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
  9. ^ Bertamini, M.; Rampone, G.; Makin, A.D.J.; Jessop, A. (2019). "Symmetry preference in shapes, faces, flowers and landscapes" (PDF). PeerJ. 7: e7078. doi:10.7717/peerj.7078. PMC 6585942. PMID 31245176. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
  10. ^ Bertamini, M.; Palumbo, L.; Redies, C. (2019). "An advantage for smooth compared with angular contours in the speed of processing shape". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 35 (10). American Psychological Association: 1304–1318. doi:10.1037/xhp0000669. PMID 31282695. S2CID 195828907. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  11. ^ Bertamini, M.; Zito, M.; Scott-Samuel, N.; Hulleman, J. (2016). "Spatial clustering and its effect on perceived clustering, numerosity, and dispersion". Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. 78 (5). Springer: 1460–1471. doi:10.3758/s13414-016-1100-0. PMC 4914534. PMID 27142523.
  12. ^ Bruno, N.; Bertamini, M. (2010). "Haptic perception after a change in hand size". Neuropsychologia. 48 (6). Elsevier: 1853–1856. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.006. PMID 20122945. S2CID 1821155.
  13. ^ "ECVP 2015". Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  14. ^ Bertamini, M. (2018). "Programming Visual Illusions for everyone". Springer. Vision, Illusion and Perception. 2: 253. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64066-2. ISBN 978-3319877136.

External links[edit]

Mirror cognition


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