The psychophysics of compositionality:
Relational scene perception occurs in a canonical order

Artistic image of a visual relation being sequentially built in someone's mind: first the table, then the relation ON with the table, and finally the laptop on the table (objects and relation are in a syntax-tree-like representation)

This page contains demos and stimuli for the following paper:

Sun, Z., Firestone, C., & Hafri, A. (in press). The psychophysics of compositionality:
Relational scene perception occurs in a canonical order. Cognitive Psychology.


Here is a loop of a few sample trials from one of our tasks:

Looping animation of several experimental trials for the visual recognition task


Links to demos of the experiments we conducted:

Links to the pre-registrations for each of the experiments above:

Data, stimuli, pre-registrations, and other materials are available on our OSF Repository here.

Questions? E-mail Alon Hafri at (alon@udel.edu).