Year: 2024
Type: article
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.
Source: i-Perception
Institutions: KU Leuven, Utrecht University
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,278
Funder: Vlaamse regering
OpenAlex ID: W4402201756