Varieties of Pictorial Vision

Overview

Journal Iperception

Date 2024 Sep 6

PMID 39238611

Authors

Jan Koenderink

Andrea van Doorn

Johan Wagemans

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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.

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