Over the course of a lifetime, we are exposed to the regularities and structure of the visual world. Consequently, we learn to use these regularities to shape our cognition; we store these rules as mental representations known as schemas. Violation of our schemas leads to various effects across cognition.
In this series of on-going studies, we investigate how scene schema violations affect visual complexity perception, recognition memory and image memorability. These behavioural studies are critical in evaluating the limitations of neural networks that predict image complexity and memorability, particularly in light of findings suggesting that these attributes are 'intrinsic' to the image and findings showing the alignment between neural network architectures and human visual processing.
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