ERC Advanced Grant · 2022
Seeing Stuff: Perceiving Materials and their Properties
Different materials, such as silk, soil, steel and soap exhibit an astonishing variety of physical properties, appearances and behaviours. The material properties of objects and substances are central to practically every task we perform, from selecting and preparing food, to detecting slippery ground, to using tools effectively. Without touching a surface, we usually enjoy a vivid impression of what it would feel like, through the sense of sight. Yet, how we do so remains mysterious. Decades of research has focussed on the visual recognition of objects, faces and scenes. By comparison, how we see, think about and interact with ‘stuff’ has been relatively neglected. STUFF addresses this…
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