{"id":13004,"date":"2026-04-14T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=13004"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:42:13","slug":"new-publication-in-scientific-reports-perceiving-material-qualities-from-moving-contours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/new-publication-in-scientific-reports-perceiving-material-qualities-from-moving-contours\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in Scientific Reports: Perceiving material qualities from moving contours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00fcseyin Boyac\u0131 and Katja Doerschner and colleagues have published \u201cPerceiving material qualities from moving contours\u201d in Scientific Reports (April 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paper-summary\">Can the way an object&#8217;s outline moves tell us what it is made of? This study separates contour motion from surface appearance to test whether moving outlines alone carry information about material qualities. The work adds to our understanding of how we judge materials at a glance.<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Amna Malik, Ying Yu, <strong>H\u00fcseyin Boyac\u0131<\/strong>, <strong>Katja Doerschner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-026-46015-w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00fcseyin Boyac\u0131 and Katja Doerschner and colleagues have published \u201cPerceiving material qualities from moving contours\u201d in Scientific Reports (April 2026). Can the way an object&#8217;s outline moves tell us what it is made of? This study separates contour motion from surface appearance to test whether moving outlines alone carry information about material qualities. The work\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13230,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13004\/revisions\/13230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}