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Rock Art Animals in Profile: Visual Recognition and the Principles of Canonical Form

Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: The article examines factors involved in rapid and easy visual identification of animals in life and art. It gives an account of what we term canonical form in connection with ‘basic level’ recognition, profile depiction and the concept of salience. In the course of this it introduces discussion of part/whole relations and saccadic eye motion. Overall it offers a critical assessment of the literature on the subject of recognition and suggests likely neurophysiological correlates for the perception of real and depicted profile animals.
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1498958748
FWCI: 5.432
Cites: 68
Cited by: 14
Related to: 10