Cultural Effects on Pictorial Perception: How Many Words Is One Picture Really Worth?

Hagen, Margaret A.; Jones, Rebecca

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“…It has been previously demonstrated that relatively accurate distance perception is maintained in both photographs and perspective drawings of three-dimensional scenes (e.g., Hagen, 1978;Hagen & Jones, 1978;Smith & Gruber, 1958;Smith, Smith, & Hubbard. 1958).…”

Section: Stimulimentioning

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Size scaling in two-dimensional pictorial arrays

Uhlarik

Pringle

Jordan

et al. 1980

Perception & Psychophysics

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Section: Stimulimentioning

confidence: 99%

Size scaling in two-dimensional pictorial arrays

Uhlarik

Pringle

Jordan

et al. 1980

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…Les rCsultats montrent que l'interprktation de la profondeur picturale s'amtliore avec l'ige et que les risultats d'enfants ghaniens sont tris proches de rksultats d'enfants Ccossais. Leach (1977) On peut tenter de hiirarchiser les indices de profondeur sur un continuum de comprihension, du plus facile au plus difficile, comme le proposent Hagen et Jones (1978). Nous obtenons la stquence suivante: superposition partielle d'objets, convergence des lignes, ClCvation, dimension respective des objets et des espaces entre les objets, contraste des couleurs ou ombres ou gradients (selon la terminologie de Gibson (1 979)).…”

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La Perception Des Relations Spatiales Dans Le Dessin Et Le Developpement Des Operations Concretes*

Colomb

Dasen

1986

Int J Psychol

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Pictorial perception entails complex cognitive skdls. Piaget and Inhelder (1948) have shown that the understanding of spatial relations follows a path that leads from topological to Euclidean concepts. We hypothesize that there is a strong correlation between the performance on Piagetian spatial tasks and pictorial perception. The three-dimensional reconstruction of drawings is a good measure of pictorial perception. The study shows that pictorial perception is correlated significantly ( p c 1%) with the performance on Piagetian spatial tasks, and also, to a lesser degree, on tasks of elementary logic. The spontaneous understanding of the meaning of the pictures (in this case sanitary messages) is related to the understanding of spatial relations, while the relationship is less strong with the recall of the messages.La perception picturale implique une activiti cognitive complexe. Une image, fit-elle photographique, n'est jamais une copie de la rialiti * La rtalisation de cette etude a tJ possible p i c e B une subvention de la Fondation Nestle pour I'Alimentation dans le Monde. et du Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS, subside no. 1.048-0.79). La collaboration du Centre lvoirien #Etude et de Recherche en Psychologie Appliquh (CIERPA) de I'Universitt d'Abidjan nous a Ctt trts prkieuse. Nous remercions particulitrement M.M. Dcrnbelt Bartheltmy, Ettien Kan. N'guessan Assandt. Kabran Kouamb, Karnagatt Daouda et Koffi K. Ad@ d'avoir recueuilli les donntes. Les dessins utilids dans cette etude ont ttt rkalists par M. Franpois Minazio. M. Rudo Nierneyer, de I'African Studies Center de Leiden. a bien voulu nous aider dans I'analyse statistique des rtsultats. La prbsente version du texte a grandement bentlicit des discussions et des commentaires de M. le Prof. G. Jahoda, de M.M. Ch. Super et J. Berry. Adresse: E.H.A. Colomb, Institut de Physiologic, Universitt de Lausanne, Rue du Bugnon 7. 1005 Lausanne. Suisse. 0020-7594/86/S3.50 0 1986. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. (North-Holland)

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“…Moreover, several pioneering experimental studies identified a key role for real-time social feedback during visual communication in driving the increased simplification of drawings over time (Garrod, Fay, Lee, Oberlander, & MacLeod, 2007;Fay, Garrod, Roberts, & Swoboda, 2010), broadly consistent with the possibility that similar pressures shaped the emergence of modern symbol systems (Galantucci & Garrod, 2011;Tamariz, 2017;Fay, Walker, Swoboda, & Garrod, 2018). Further support for the notion that the link between pictures and their referents depends crucially on socially mediated learning comes from the substantial variation in pictorial art traditions across cultures (Gombrich, 1950) and the existence of culturally specific strategies for encoding meaning in pictorial form (Hudson, 1960;Deregowski, 1989;Hagen & Jones, 1978).…”

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Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions

Hawkins,

Sano,

Goodman

et al. 2021

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From photorealistic sketches to schematic diagrams, drawing provides a versatile medium for communicating about the visual world. How do images spanning such a broad range of appearances reliably convey meaning? Do viewers understand drawings based solely on their ability to resemble the entities they refer to (i.e., as images), or do they understand drawings based on shared but arbitrary associations with these entities (i.e., as symbols)? In this paper, we provide evidence for a cognitive account of pictorial meaning in which both visual and social information is integrated to support effective visual communication. To evaluate this account, we used a communication task where pairs of participants used drawings to repeatedly communicate the identity of a target object among multiple distractor objects. We manipulated social cues across three experiments and a full internal replication, finding pairs of participants develop referent-specific and interaction-specific strategies for communicating more efficiently over time, going beyond what could be explained by either task practice or a pure resemblance-based account alone. Using a combination of modelbased image analyses and crowdsourced sketch annotations, we further determined that drawings did not drift toward "arbitrariness," as predicted by a pure convention-based account, but systematically preserved those visual features that were most distinctive of the target object. Taken together, these findings advance theories of pictorial meaning and have implications for how successful graphical conventions emerge via complex interactions between visual perception, communicative experience, and social context.

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Cultural Effects on Pictorial Perception: How Many Words Is One Picture Really Worth?

Cited by 19 publications

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Size scaling in two-dimensional pictorial arrays

Size scaling in two-dimensional pictorial arrays

La Perception Des Relations Spatiales Dans Le Dessin Et Le Developpement Des Operations Concretes*

Visual resemblance and communicative context constrain the emergence of graphical conventions

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