We are very proud to announce that a psychological study, entirely made with EventIDE (and earlier program’s prototype) , has been published in one of the top research journal- Psychological Science. You can find the article, called “The Time Course of Perceptual Grouping in Natural Scenes” in the December 2012 issue or via this PubMed link .

This study measured a time-course of perceptual processes when a task requires grouping image segments that belong to the same object in natural scenes.  Contrary to a widely held view that perceptual grouping occurs in parallel across the visual scene and without attention, the obtained results imply that perception starts with rapid object classification and that rapid classification is followed by a serial perceptual grouping phase, which is more efficient for objects in a familiar orientation than for objects in an unfamiliar orientation.  

The study describes  a series of experiments built over the same paradigm. We published the Experiment 1 from the study in the experiment gallery on this website, such that you can download and try it by yourself. While performing the experimental task, you can see an online statistics in the same format as in the original article.