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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821446403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, PA, : John Benjamins Pub., 2006
• ISBN: 1-282-15513-X; 9786612155130; 90-272-9301-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (395 p.)
• Collana: Advances in consciousness research, , 1381-589X ; ; 67
• Altri autori (Persone): AlbertazziLiliana
• Disciplina: 152.14
• Soggetti: Space perception; Consciousness
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References.; Illusory space and paradoxical transparency in stereokinetic objects -- Introduction -- The stereokinetic objects and their surfaces -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- 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 -- References -- Boundary Gestalt limits flow Gestalt -- Introduction -- 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 -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- 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 -- References -- Visual quality -- Introduction -- Descriptive analysis of seeing -- Act versus object -- The geometry of unfolding appearances -- Qualities -- Inner determinants.; Rule-based deformation -- Towards a conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Rudolf Arnheim's graphic equivalents in children's drawings and drawings and paintings by Paul Klee -- Notes -- References -- 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'' -- References -- Bridging perception and depiction of visual spaces -- Dynamics of picture viewing and picture description -- Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Order and complexity in naturalistic landscapes -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References -- 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 -- Notes -- References -- Tracing axes of growth -- Introduction -- Linear growth -- Structures of space -- The nineteen configurations with one axis of growth -- Discussion -- References -- John Willats† -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Advances in Consciousness Research.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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).