Abstract
Pictorial awareness is addressed through experimental phenomenology involving over 90 naïve participants. Since one can’t look at the “same” picture twice the study uses one-shot trials. The participant’s fascination for the duration of a session is held through the artistic principle of theme and variation. Six variations focus on the theme of pictorial geometry, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
Major findings are:
Idiosyncratic deviations from veridical are huge as compared to common textbook “effects.”
Observers wield arbitrary heuristics for tasks that are “formally related.” The assumption of a common formal framework is apparently unsound. The notion of “inverse optics” is misleading.
A fair fraction of the population appears to lack monocular stereopsis as intuitive awareness. It suggests an as-yet unrecognized, but perhaps common variety of aphantasia.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 38 |
| Journal | i-Perception |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2024.
Funding
We are indebted to Qiao Xia for recruiting many participants and bearing the brunt of guiding them through the actions. The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The work was supported by the program by the Flemish Government (METH/21/02), awarded to Johan Wagemans. Jan Koenderink is grateful to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung | |
| Vlaamse regering | METH/21/02 |
Keywords
- correlations between judgments
- heuristics in vision
- personal differences
- pictorial space