Mediated World, Mediated Picture
This post is inspired by the remarkable independent arrival at two graphic models of human consciousness and pictorial consciousness.
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Pictorial Conflation, Comparatively
For many years, psychologists were content that animals and children could respond to images in learning and discrimination tasks.
Pictoriality – Learning from Evolution (but not in the way you think)
Countless archeologists and historians have taken inspiration from biological, ethological and evolutionary psychological studies to argue for the naturalness of images; we are, they argue, homo pictor. This makes images part of our human inheritance – “innate” or “hard-wired.” What often follows is the smuggling of the normative elements of such historical preferences into discussions of…
Gombrich’s Just So Story – Ginzburg and Onians
In 1951, E.
Göran Sonesson’s Achievement
A few months ago, an email bounced back from Göran Sonesson, the Swedish semiotician.
How Not to Go after Nelson Goodman
For many people in aesthetics and psychology, Nelson Goodman is something of an aberration.
Eye, Mind and Image
An Interdisciplinary Project
Are we Perceiving Pictorial Depth in Trompe L’oeil Pictures?
A classic experiment by David Topper and William Simpson (“Depth perception in linear and inverse perspective pictures,” Perception, 1981) made a very useful demonstration: by viewing a fifth century mosaic utilizing “inverse perspective,” and inspecting it in Richard Gregory’s “Pandora’s box” (a device for marking perceived depth) they were able to show that perceivers see depth even in…
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