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Preprints

	Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK): A cognition-inspired framework for evaluating basic world knowledge in language models. Ivanova, AA*, Sathe, A*, Lipkin, B *, Kumar, U, Radkani, S, Clark, TH, Kauf, C, Hu, J, Pramod, RT, Grand, G, Paulun, VC, Ryskina, M, Akyurek, E, Wilcox, E, Rashid, N, Choshen, L, Levy, R, Fedorenko, E, Tenenbaum, J, & Andreas, J (2024)   *these authors contributed equally bioRxiv, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2405.09605 ► PDF   ► code   ► dataset
	Efficient Visual Heuristics in the Perception of Physical Object Properties. Paulun, VC, Bayer, FS, Tenenbaum, JB, & Fleming, RW (2023) bioRxiv, doi: /10.1101/2023.03.24.534031 ► PDF

Journal Articles

	Distinct neural components of visually guided grasping during planning and execution. Klein, LK*, Maiello, G*, Stubbs, KM, Proklova, D, Chen, J, Paulun, VC, Culham, JC, & Fleming, RW (2023)   *these authors contributed equally Journal of Neuroscienc, 43(49):8504–8514 doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0335-23.2023 ► PDF   ► data & code
	Material perception for philosophers Ritchie, JB, Paulun, VC*, Storrs, KR*, & Fleming, RW (2021)   *these authors contributed equally Philosophy Compass, e12777, doi: 10.1111/phc3.12777 ► PDF
	Humans Can Visually Judge Grasp Quality and Refine Their Judgments Through Visual and Haptic Feedback Maiello, G, Schepko, M, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2021) Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14:591898, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2020.591898 ► PDF   ► data & code   ► corrigendum
	Predicting precision grip grasp locations on three-dimensional objects Klein, LK*, Maiello, G*, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2020)   *these authors contributed equally PLOS Computational Biology, 16(8):e1008081. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008081 ► PDF   ► data & code
	Visually inferring elasticity from the motion trajectory of bouncing cubes Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2020) Journal of Vision, 20(6):6, 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.6.6 ► PDF   ► data
	Integration of prior knowledge during haptic exploration depends on information type Zöller, AC, Lezkan, A, Paulun, VC, Fleming, RW, & Drewing, K (2019) Journal of Vision, 19(4):20, 1-15, doi:10.1167/19.4.20 ► PDF   ► data
	The Material-Weight Illusion disappears or inverts in objects made of two materials Paulun, VC, Buckingham, G, Goodale, MA, & Fleming, RW (2019) Journal of Neurophysiology, 121, 996-1010, doi:10.1152/jn.00199.2018 ► PDF   ► data   ► press
	Object visibility, not energy expenditure, accounts for spatial biases in human grasp selection Maiello, G*, Paulun, VC*, Klein, LK, & Fleming, RW (2019)   *these authors contributed equally i-Perception, 10(1), 1-5, doi:10.1177/2041669519827608 ► PDF   ► data & code
	The Sequential-Weight Illusion Maiello, G, Paulun, VC, Klein, LK, & Fleming, RW (2018) i-Perception, 9(4), 1–6. doi:10.1177/2041669518790275 ► PDF   ► data & code
	Inferring the stiffness of unfamiliar objects from optical, shape and motion cues Schmidt, F, Paulun, VC, van Assen, JJR, & Fleming, RW (2017) Journal of Vision, 17(3):18, 1-17, doi:10.1167/17.3.18 ► PDF   ► data
	Shape, motion and optical cues to stiffness of elastic objects Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, van Assen, JJR, & Fleming, RW (2017) Journal of Vision, 17(1):20, 1-22, doi:10.1167/17.1.20 ► PDF   ► data
	Effects of material properties and object orientation on precision grip kinematics Paulun, VC, Gegenfurtner, KR, Goodale, MA, & Fleming, RW (2016) Experimental Brain Research, 234, 2253-2265, doi:10.1007/s00221-016-4631-7 ► PDF
	A tetrachromatic display for the spatiotemporal control of rod and cone stimulation Bayer, FS, Paulun, VC, Weiss, D, & Gegenfurtner, KR (2015) Journal of Vision, 15(11):15, 1-16, doi:10.1167/15.11.15 ► PDF
	Visual search under scotopic lighting conditions. Paulun, VC, Schütz, AC, Michel, MM, Geisler, WS, & Gegenfurtner, KR (2015) Vision Research, 113, 155-168, doi:10.1016/j.visres.2015.05.004
	Seeing liquids from static snapshots Paulun, V.C., Kawabe, T., Nishida, S., & Fleming, R.W. (2015) Vision Research, 115, 163-174, doi:10.1016/j.visres.2015.01.023 ► PDF
	Center or side: Biases in selecting grasp points on small bars Paulun, V.C., Kleinholdermann, U., Gegenfurtner, K.R., Smeets, J.B.J., & Brenner, E. (2014) Experimental Brain Research, 232(7), 2061-2072, doi:10.1007/s00221-014-3895-z

Conference Papers

	Grasping objects in immersive Virtual Reality Chessa, M, Maiello, G, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Solari, F, (2019) In 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR) , pp. 1749-1754. IEEE, doi: 10.1109/VR.2019.8798155
	Influence of Different Types of Prior Knowledge on Haptic Exploration of Soft Objects Zöller, AC, Lezkan, A, Paulun, VC, Fleming, RW, & Drewing, K (2018) In International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications , pp. 413-424. Springer, Cham, doi: /10.1007/978-3-319-93445-7_36

Conference Talks

[24]	Paulun, VC, Siegel, MH, Zheng, K, & Tenenbaum, J (2024). Perceiving materials and objects from semi-visible interactions. Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[23]	Paulun, VC, Siegel, MH, Zheng, K, & Tenenbaum, J (2024). Seeing the invisible: Online use of rich physical constraints in perception. Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Regensburg, DE
[22]	Paulun, VC, Pramod, RT, & Kanwisher, N (2023). "Things" versus "Stuff" in the Brain. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[21]	Paulun, VC, Bayer, FS, Tenenbaum, JB, & Fleming, RW (2023). Efficient perception of physical object properties with visual heuristics. Computational and Mathematical Models in Vision (MODVIS), St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[20]	Paulun, VC, Zheng, K, & Kar, K (2022). Distributed population activity in the macaque inferior temporal cortex reflects perceived not retinal object size. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, CA, USA
[19]	Paulun, VC, Bayer, FS, & Fleming, RW (2019). Visual Perception of Elasticity in Bouncing Objects. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Leuven, BEL
[18]	Maiello, G, Schepko, M, Klein, LK,Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2019). Hand Pose Selection in Visually Guided Grasping. ECVP, Leuven, BEL
[17]	Maiello, G, Schepko, M, Klein, LK,Paulun, VC, & Fleming, R. (2019). Visual Judgements of Grasp Optimality. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[16]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, & Fleming, RW (2018). Visual Perception of Deformable Things. The Skin of Things, Amsterdam, NL
[15]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, & Fleming, RW (2018). A feature-based model of visually perceiving deformable objects. MODVIS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[14]	Maiello, G, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, Storrs, K., & Fleming, R.W. (2018). The road towards image-computable models of human visual grasp planning. MODVIS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[13]	Klein, LK, Maiello, G, Proklova, D, Chen, J, Paulun, VC, Culham, JC, & Fleming, RW (2018). Predicting how we grasp arbitrary objects. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[12]	Paulun, VC**, Schmidt, F, & Fleming, RW (2018). Visual perception of the properties of deformable objects. TeaP, Marburg, DE, **session chair
[11]	Maiello, G, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2018). Human visual grasp selection. TeaP, Marburg, DE
[10]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, & Fleming, RW (2017). Perceiving the softness and plasticity of deformable materials. ECVP, Berlin, DE
[9]	Fleming, RW, Paulun, VC, Van Assen, JJR., & Schmidt, F (2017). Jelly and goop: Visual perception of non-rigid materials. ECVP, Berlin, DE
[8]	Klein, LK, Maiello, G, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2017). Who's up for some heavy lifting? How three-dimensional shape and material properties determine precision grip grasp locations. ECVP, Berlin, DE
[7]	Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2017). Visual perception of elastic behavior of bouncing objects. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[6]	Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2017). Heuristics from statistics— Modeling the behavior and perception of non-rigid materials. MODVIS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[5]	Maiello, G, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2017) Modeling Grip Point Selection in Human Precision Grip. MODVIS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[4]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, van Assen, JJR, & Fleming, RW (2016). Wibble-wobble: motion and shape indicate softness of deformable materials. ECVP, Barcelona, ES
[3]	Paulun, VC, Buckingham, G, Gegenfurtner, KR, Fleming, RW, & Goodale, MA (2015). Inversion of the Material-Weight Illusion in objects made of two materials. ECVP, Liverpool, UK
[2]	Paulun, VC, Gegenfurtner, KR, Goodale, MA, & Fleming, RW (2014). Getting a grip on different materials. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[1]	Fleming, RW & Paulun, VC (2012). Goop! On the visual perception of fluid viscosity. VSS, Naples, FL, USA

Conference Posters

[23]	Paulun, VC, Siegel, MH, & Tenenbaum, JB (2022). Joint online inference of material properties and object shape. CogSci, Toronto, CAN
[22]	Paulun, VC, Zheng, K, & Kar, K (2022). Distributed population activity in the macaque inferior temporal cortex but not current deep neural networks predict the Ponzo illusion. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[21]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, Bayer, FS, Wangler, J, Tenenbaum, JB, & Fleming, RW (2021). Visual Prediction of Bounce Trajectories. V-VSS, zoom-land
[20]	Klein, LK, Maiello, G, Schepko, M, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2019). Grasping Spheres with a Twist: Maping out end-state comfort. ECVP, Leuven, BEL
[19]	Klein, LK, Maiello, G, Proklova, D, Paulun, VC, Culham JC, & Fleming, RW (2019). Whih brain areas are responsible for which aspects of grasping?VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[18]	Maiello, G, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2018). Grasping the Skin of Things.The Skin of Things, Amsterdam, NL
[17]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, & Fleming, RW (2018). Visual Features of Non-Rigid Objects. Optical Society of America (OSA) Fall Vision Meeting, Reno, NV, USA
[16]	Klein, LK, Maiello, G, Proklova, D, Chen, J, Paulun, VC, Culham, JC, & Fleming, RW (2018). Neural correlates of visual grasp selection. ECVP, Trieste, IT
[15]	Paulun, VC, Schmidt, F, & Fleming, RW (2018). Visual perception of deformable materials. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[14]	Maiello, G, Paulun, VC, Klein, LK, & Fleming, RW (2018).The Sequential-Weight Illusion. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[13]	Klein, LK, Maiello, G, Chen, J, Paulun, VC, Culham, JC, & Fleming, RW (2018). Predicting how we grasp arbitrary objects. TeaP, Marburg, DE
[12]	Maiello, G, Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2017). A model that predicts where we grasp 3D objects. ECVP, Berlin, DE
[11]	Zöller, A, Lezkan, A, Paulun, VC, Fleming, RW, Drewing, K (2017). Influence of different types of predictive signals on haptic exploration of soft material. ECVP, Berlin, DE
[10]	Klein, LK, Paulun, VC, & Fleming, RW (2017). You break it, you buy it—effect of object shape on grasp locations. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[9]	Paulun, VC, van Assen, JJR, & Fleming, RW (2016). Visual cues to stiffness of elastic objects. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[8]	Paulun, VC, Buckingham, G, Gegenfurtner, KR, Fleming, RW, & Goodale, MA (2015). Modulation of the Material-Weight Illusion in objects made of more than one material. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[7]	Paulun, VC, Gegenfurtner, KR, Goodale, MA, Fleming, RW (2014). How do material and orientation of an object influence precision grip? ECVP, Belgrade, RS
[6]	van Assen, JJR, Paulun, VC, Fleming, RW (2014). Visual perception of fluid viscosity over time. VSS, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
[5]	van Assen, JJR, Paulun, VC, Fleming, RW (2014). Constancy of visually perceived fluid viscosity. TeaP, Gießen, DE
[4]	Paulun, VC, Gegenfurtner, KR, Fleming, RW (2014). Influence of material properties and object orientation on precision grip. TeaP, Gießen, DE
[3]	Paulun, VC, Kleinholdermann, U, Gegenfurtner, KR, Smeets, JBJ, & Brenner, E (2013). Influence of object weight and movement distance on grasp point selection. ECVP, Bremen, DE
[2]	Paulun, VC, Kleinholdermann, U, Gegenfurtner, KR, Smeets, JBJ, & Brenner, E (2013). How to choose where to place the fingers when grasping a small bar: Effects of object weight and movement distance on grasp point selection. VSS, Naples, FL, USA
[1]	Paulun, VC, Schütz, AC, & Gegenfurtner, KR (2012). Searching in the dark—Saccades during scotopic and photopic visual search. ECVP, Alghero, IT

Others

[1]	Paulun, VC (2018). Wie Greifen im Gehirn entsteht. Retrieved from: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/klartext/wie-greifen-im-gehirn-entsteht/ [Blog post]