Sami Yousif
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Sami Yousif
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Asst Prof @ Ohio State. I study how we perceive and represent the (spatial) world. More here: cogdevlab.org
Hey! We discussed this work in a review paper of ours that is currently under review. Great work!
October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Isn't the Filled Duration Illusion usually about filling spaces with other discrete entities (analogous to the visual Oppel-Kundt illusion)? If so, I think those effects are substantively different, personally!
September 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I’ll send over the latest draft that we had!
September 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
We’ve found the same when we’ve examined adherence to Weber’s law with different sorts of visual stimuli. Sam Clarke and I wrote up a paper recently that’s partly about this, but we haven’t known what to do with it.
September 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Maybe! If we're thinking about such low-level explanations, then we'd have to apply the same skepticism to cases like number adaptation -- at which point we'd have to admit we cannot be certain about those cases, either.

I.e., per widely accepted standards, this is bona fide visual adaptation.
August 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I agree it is tempting to think of low-level explanations! As we should for number, causality adaptation, etc.

But what low-level explanation could explain the cross-stimulus effects? We take that as a pretty strong answer to such concerns.

I’m not sure how they do so well so fast — but they do!
August 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There's so much I want to say about why this paper is really exciting, but this is not ideally explained in a short thread. If you're interested in this sort of thing, I highly recommend checking out the paper for yourself!
August 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM