The photographs for this image set are available at: https://osf.io/9squn/

This set of line drawings was drawn by trained artists at the Lotus Hill Institute in Fudan, PR China.

This particular set of images and line drawings was first used in:

Walther, D. B., Chai, B., Caddigan, E., Beck, D. M., & Fei-Fei, L. (2011). Simple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(23), 9661-9666. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.101566610

They have been used in additional publications since then, e.g.:

Walther, D. B., & Shen, D. (2014). Nonaccidental properties underlie human categorization of complex natural scenes. Psychological Science, 25(4), 851-860.

Choo, H., & Walther, D. B. (2016). Contour junctions underlie neural representations of scene categories in high-level human visual cortex. Neuroimage, 135, 32-44.

Wilder, J., Dickinson, S., Jepson, A., & Walther, D. B. (2018). Spatial relationships between contours impact rapid scene classification. Journal of Vision, 18(8), 1-1.

Lowe, M. X., Rajsic, J., Ferber, S., & Walther, D. B. (2018). Discriminating scene categories from brain activity within 100 milliseconds. Cortex, 106, 275-287.

Damiano, C., & Walther, D. B. (2019). Distinct roles of eye movements during memory encoding and retrieval. Cognition, 184, 119-129

Wilder, J., Rezanejad, M., Dickinson, S., Siddiqi, K., Jepson, A., & Walther, D. B. (2019). Local contour symmetry facilitates scene categorization. Cognition, 182, 307-317.

Damiano, C., Wilder, J., & Walther, D. B. (2019). Mid-level feature contributions to category-specific gaze guidance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 35-46.

Rezanejad, M., Downs, G., Wilder, J., Walther, D. B., Jepson, A., Dickinson, S., & Siddiqi, K. (2019). Scene categorization from contours: Medial axis based salience measures. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 4116-4124).

Wilder, J., Rezanejad, M., Dickinson, S., Siddiqi, K., Jepson, A., & Walther, D. B. (2022). Neural correlates of local parallelism during naturalistic vision. Plos one, 17(1), e0260266.

For questions, please contact Dirk Bernhardt-Walther: dirk.walther@gmail.com

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