Publications

OSF Preprint (2025)

Ensemble Physics: Perceiving the Mass of Groups of Objects is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Vivanco, Tenenbaum, Paulun*, & Smith*

*equal contribution

BIORXIV PREPRINT (2023)

Humans switch between heuristics instead of combining cues when judging object properties from motion

Paulun, Bayer, Tenenbaum, & Fleming

CUrrent biology (2025)

Dissociable cortical regions represent things and stuff in the human brain

Paulun, Pramod, Tenenbaum, & Kanwisher

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2025)

Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models

Ivanova*, Sathe*, Lipkin*, Kumar, Radkani, Clark, Kauf, Hu, Pramod, Grand, Paulun, Ryskina, Akyurek, Wilcox, Rashid, Choshen, Levy, Fedorenko, Tenenbaum, & Andreas

*equal contribution

Journal of Neuroscience (2023)

Distinct neural components of visually guided grasping during planning and execution

Klein*, Maiello*, Stubbs, Proklova, Chen, Paulun, Culham, & Fleming

*equal contribution

Philosophy Compass (2021)

Material Perception for Philosophers

Ritchie, Paulun*, Storrs*, & Fleming

*equal contribution

Frontiers in Neuroscience (2021)

Humans Can Visually Judge Grasp Quality and Refine Their Judgments Through Visual and Haptic Feedback

Maiello, Schepko, Klein, Paulun, & Fleming

PLOS Computational Biology (2020)

Predicting precision grip grasp locations on three-dimensional objects

Klein*, Maiello*, Paulun, & Fleming

*equal contribution

Journal of vision (2020)

Visually inferring elasticity from the motion trajectory of bouncing cubes

Paulun, & Fleming

Journal of Neurophysiology (2019)

The Material-Weight Illusion inverts in objects made of two materials

Paulun, Buckingham, Goodale, & Fleming

Journal of vision (2019)

The integration of prior knowledge in the haptic exploration process depends on information type

Zöller, Lezkan, Paulun, Fleming, & Drewing

i-Perception (2019)

Object visibility, not energy expenditure, accounts for spatial biases in human grasp selection

Maiello*, Paulun*, Klein, & Fleming

*equal contribution

IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (2019)

Grasping objects in immersive Virtual Reality

Chessa, Maiello, Klein, Paulun, & Solari

i-Perception (2018)

The Sequential-Weight Illusion

Maiello, Paulun, Klein, & Fleming

International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications (2018)

Influence of Different Types of Prior Knowledge on Haptic Exploration of Soft Objects

Zöller, Lezkan, Paulun, Fleming, & Drewing

Journal of vision (2017)

Inferring the stiffness of unfamiliar objects from optical, shape and motion cues

Schmidt, Paulun, van Assen, & Fleming

Journal of vision (2017)

Shape, motion and optical cues to stiffness of elastic objects

Paulun, Schmidt, van Assen, & Fleming

experimental brain research (2016)

Effects of material properties and object orientation on precision grip kinematics

Paulun, Gegenfurtner, Goodale, & Fleming

vision research (2015)

Seeing liquids from static snapshots

Paulun, Kawabe, Nishida, & Fleming

vision research (2015)

Visual search under scotopic lighting conditions

Paulun, Schütz, Michel, Geisler, & Gegenfurtner

experimental brain research (2014)

Center or side: biases in selecting grasp points on small bars

Paulun, Kleinholdermann, Gegenfurtner, Smeets, & Brenner