Visual Vs Symbolic Language

Everyone is affected, nervous, clenched, desire for work, need, hope, professional, emotional, the focus on the "free employment guide" next to a purse, the clenched hand on the wrist, unhappy attentional faces, blue collar man - a symbol.

Assuming the person can recognize some color:

There is a line of three people. In the front is a woman (unseen face) in a black suit and white undershirt, focused most is the clenching around her wrist tightly close to her body, which is holding a free employment guide (Visual representational material). A purse is around her arm being clenched (symbol). Behind her is an African American woman also wearing a black suit with a white undershirt holding a black folder with two hands close to her chest as if she is hoping/praying for what she's looking at. Her face is serious and attentional, fixating on something. Behind her is a man, who is told a stack of papers in his left arm. He has a blue, long sleeve, collar shirt (Abstract representational material). Black short hair. He is facing the same direction as the woman in front of him. Behind him, a sillouette of person is there representing that the line is continuing.

Visual Thinking Operations

For this puzzle I used finding to locate all the triangles that make up the cat. I numbered each one so that i did not recount any.

My roommate also used finding for this puzzle. Numbering each triangle was effective in not recounting. However, my roommate counted each triangle differently.

For this puzzle, we had to distinguish which group did not belong to the main group in the middle. By using orthographic information, we both used different strategies to try to solve. I used pattern completion, however i think I also used filling in because I drew line to finish the boxes that were hidden to help myself mentally rotate the objects.

 My roommate used pattern completion to try to solve, yet he had a hard time with A and C. He thought by using process of elimination he could find the right one. He tried mentally rotating the images based on shading. I think he used mainly visual reasoning for this puzzle.

 

 

 

 

 

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Beginning with the cornea and the lens which focuses the images on the retina, our active vision begins with bottom up processing (features, patterns, and objects). After many saccades, scan paths, and fixations on the image we gain more vivid color, shape, motion, and spacial layout (feature channels). The more effective feature channels are listed by a hierarchy of effectiveness. These channels are all pre-attentive (we dont pay attention to this because of we are looking ahead [just in time]) Our visual working memory tells us this is a chameleon. Yet, this is no normal chameleon! The designer made the wires red. This was a good use of the "pop out effect" enabling the user to see that and realize easily that this is a robotic creation. The shape is a chameleon, yet there are features that most would relate to technology, robotic (man made). Color, shape, and spacial layout are the most widely used visual feature channels in this image. The white is very effective with the black background. the light shining off the metal is good at demonstrating depth, and the shape is important because it is a common pose a chameleon would have.

Top-Down Example

This image has four different planes layered on top of each other and rendered different colors so that one may correlate each plane with the below measurements of the plane. For top down processing, one with first will begin with short fixations (gaining attention) to get an overview and to map out the image. Next, there will be longer fixations, such as correlating the colors with each individual plane. Then after these fixations, one will look ahead with a priming of actions as much as  they can and remember what they saw, for example, that the yellow plane has the largest wing span. Next is the "just in time" strategy, so that if someone asks or they need to know in a fly they can answer quickly based on color, size, and/or shape.

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