Visual thought : the depictive space of perception / [edited by] Liliana Albertazzi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albertazzi, Liliana.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; 67.

Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Space perception.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : John Benjamins Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The leading theme of the volume is the co-presence and interaction of diverse types of spaces in vision, like the optical space of psychophysics and of neural elaboration, the qualitative space of phenomenal appearances, and its relation with the pictorial space of art. (Series B).

Contents:

Visual Thought

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication page

Table of contents

Affiliations, addresses

Foreword

Perception of visual spaces

Introduction to visual spaces

Spaces' dynamics

The Gestalt legacy

Corporeal schema

Representation

Levels

Objects

Contents

The depictive space of the mind

Notes

References

Coplanar reflectance change and the ontology of surface perception

Introduction

Problems with the definition of surfaces in inference-based models

An alternative definition of visual surfaces

Surface ontology in inferential approaches to perception

Adelson and Pentland's workshop metaphor

Problems with inferential approaches to surface perception

Is coplanar reflectance change a cue-conflict stimulus?

Is the interpretation of coplanar reflectance ecologically adaptive?

Camouflage and the argument against ecology

An alternative ontology (Or why Adelson &amp

Pentland have to fire the painter from their workshop)

Coplanar reflectance change and representational conflict

Discontinuous brightness change and representational conflict

Representational conflict and design

Surface articulation in design

Some examples from design

Conclusions about surfaces and design

Evidence suggestive of separate visual dynamics in perception and in memory

PART I: Dynamics and displacements

Dynamics in everyday life

Dynamics arising from structure

Dynamics arising from physical forces

Displacement and aesthetics

PART II: An empirical study

Method

Procedure

Results

Discussion

PART III: Backward and forward

Separating perception and memory

The directions of displacement

Fröhlich Effect and Onset Repulsion Effect

PART IV: Summary and final thoughts

References.

Illusory space and paradoxical transparency in stereokinetic objects

The stereokinetic objects and their surfaces

Acknowledgements

Appendix

The neural space of visual shape perception

Perception depends on transformation of visual dimensions

Contour orientation

Higher-level dimensions of visual coding

Population coding in terms of object parts

Integration of object part information

Relationship of higher-level neural representation to phenomenal visual experience

Boundary Gestalt limits flow Gestalt

A cortical columnar machine for early vision

The differential geometry of curves and flows

The differential geometry of curves

The differential geometry of flows

Computing coherent visual flows

Stability at discontinuities

Edges as shading flow boundaries

Edges as nonlinear inhibition

Conclusions

Depiction of visual spaces

Pictorial space, a modern reappraisal of Adolf Hildebrand

The issue of veridicality

The psychophysics of pictorial perception

The nature of pictorial cues

Adolf Hildebrand's "relief space''

Some empirical observations

A preliminary theory of the optical basis of cue ambiguity

The group of proper movements of pictorial space

The geometry of pictorial space

Conclusion

Gestalts of thought

Perceptual organizing principles: Grouping

Why Group?

Errors as clues

Grouping of remembered objects

Grouping by abstract features

Common fate as grouping

Grouping in abstract domains

Levels of gestalt phenomena: From perception to imagination

Note

Visual quality

Descriptive analysis of seeing

Act versus object

The geometry of unfolding appearances

Qualities

Inner determinants.

Rule-based deformation

Towards a conclusion

Rudolf Arnheim's graphic equivalents in children's drawings and drawings and paintings by Paul Klee

Visual perception and theories of painting

Introduction: What can psychological theories of perception contribute to theories of painting?

Starting example: Reality in pictures

Why theories of perception tend to be neglected in the teaching of painting

The camera metaphor for visual perception

How to depict the "what'' and the "how''

Bridging perception and depiction of visual spaces

Dynamics of picture viewing and picture description

Picture viewing and picture description: Data, method and analytic tools in the experimental studies

Information processing: Temporal and semantic correlations between visual and verbal patterns

Variations in picture description: Two different styles

Understanding the dynamics of the ongoing perception process

Spatial, semantic and mental grouping

Picture viewing and mental imagery

Summary and discussion

Order and complexity in naturalistic landscapes

Intuitive definitions of order and complexity

Classical Japanese gardening principles

Perceptual grouping factors

Rocks

Classical gardening guidelines, Gestalt factors, depictive effects and Arnheim's notion of order and complexity

The structure of MA

Depiction of visual depth in dry rock gardens: From illustrations to reconstructed garden maps

Visual completion in dry rock gardens

Trees

Classical instructions regarding the arboreal backbone of the garden

Practices of the present generation of Japanese gardeners

Shaping of branches in ikebana

Formalizing the structure of artificially shaped trees.

A more appropriate lexicon of visual structure

Thoughts on shape

1. Introduction

2. Preliminaries

2.1. Shape as the structural field of an object

2.2. Shape as the recoverable structural field of an object

3. Transforms for shape

3.1. Examples of shape transforms

3.2. Geometries for shape: Invariance under transforms

4. Horizontal and vertical transform sequences

4.1. Horizontal transform sequences

4.2. Vertical transform sequences

4.3. Mixed transform sequences

5. Grammars for shape

5.1. Leyton's process-grammar

5.2. Richards and Hoffman's codon-grammar

6. Conclusion

Tracing axes of growth

Linear growth

Structures of space

The nineteen configurations with one axis of growth

John Willats†

Name index

Subject index

The series Advances in Consciousness Research.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612155130

9781282155138

128215513X

9789027293015

9027293015

OCLC:

191934944