ISYU TUNGKOL SA SEKSWLADIDA (ISSUE ABOUT SEXUALITY
Visual perception-illusions-paradoxes
1. Visual Perception
Illusions &
Paradoxes
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Priyadarshi Patnaik
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Social S i
D fH ii S i l Sciences
IIT Kharagpur
2. What about visuals?
Many things which are visually communicated or
perceived are biologically determined
But many other things are learnt
Visuals communicate power
Visuals communicate emotions
Visuals communicate culture
7. In philosophy psychology and the cognitive
philosophy, psychology,
sciences, perception is the process of attaining
awareness or understanding of sensory
information. The word "perception" comes
from the Latin words perceptio percipio and means
perceptio, percipio,
"receiving, collecting, action of taking
possession,
possession apprehension with the mind or
senses."
8. When external stimuli is transmitted to our brain
through our senses – sensation
Devoid of any definition, any interpretation,
meaning
The simplest building block
But then it is taken up by the mind and analyzed
Memory is stirred up remembering used
up,
Sensation identified, matched, given a name,
defined,
defined interpreted and remembered for future
use
9. Part of what we perceive comes through the
senses from the objects before us; another part
always comes out of our own head
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Willi James
11. To resolve ambiguities and make sense of the
world, the brain also creates shapes from
incomplete data.
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developed by Italian
psychologist Gaetano Kanizsa.
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Ramachandran of University of California, San
Diego,
Diego the brain can make guesses based on
information available and some simple
assumptions
Pattern of shadows
Light
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22. Filtering
Why does focus shift?
We filter, partly bl ki certain i
W fil l blocking i inputs
Limited Mental Capacity
23. Perception is taking in, filtering and interpretation to
make sense of the world. Memory and learning play an
important part, but so do certain innate organizational
abilities of the mind, highlighted by Gestalt
psychologists.
The limits of my perception are the limits of my world
The word is the world (since it takes us a step further
and helps us cognize what we have perceived)
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Form perception
Colour perception
Depth
D h perception
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These will give us some idea of how and why we
visually perceive the many things that we do.
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26. Gestalt (German) used to indicate the form-
form-
forming capabilities of the mind (Whole form
approach) and the belief that this holistic
perception is innate to the mind
28. The visual system uses an innate binary division
– the figure we look at and the ground which is
everything else and forms the background
This relation is reversible
But
B we cannot perceive the same thing as fi
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and ground at the same time – it requires a
mental switching
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29. Gestalt
Max Wertheimer
Kurt Koffka
Wolfgang K hl
W lf Kohler
We are surrounded by sounds and forms that do
not have a sole meaning. At any moment, our
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perception is what gives it form and meaning.
30. What do we have here?
Twelve lines
4 vertical
4 horizontal
4 oblong
31. The vase and the two faces
A demonstration of multi-stability: popping back and forth
between two or more unstable perceptions
32. Organization in form perception
The whole is more
than the sum of its
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parts
33. A Poem
A Black Coat
It was a dark evening
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Simple Life
68. The light coloured dot
seems to pop out while
the dark coloured dot
seems to sit further back
Source: “Color in Mind: Adobe Magazine, November 1996
82. Illusion
There is an innate ambiguity in retinal input. For a
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given retinal image, there are infinite number of three
dimensional images available for interpretation. Usually
we get the interpretation right. When we don’t, we have
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an illusion.
Some illusions arise because there are more than one
possible interpretations.
An illusion is a distortion of the senses, revealing how
the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory
stimulation.
83. Types of
Ambiguous illusions are pictures or objects that
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elicit a perceptual 'switch' between the alternative
interpretations.
Distorting illusions are characterized by distortions
of size, length, or curvature.
Paradox illusions are generated by objects that are
paradoxical or impossible.
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Fictional illusions (Hallucinations) are defined as
the perception of objects that are g
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to all but a single observer, such as those induced by
schizophrenia or a hallucinogen.
93. Escher on Escher
"In the horizontal center strip there are birds and fish
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equivalent to each other. We associate flying with sky,
and so for each of the black birds the sky in which it is
flying is formed by the four white fish which encircle it.
Similarly swimming makes us think of water, and
water
therefore the four black birds that surround a fish become
the water in which it swims."
swims
109. References and images
Doors of Perception
http://www.doorsofperception.com/doors
The Joy of Perception
http://www.yorku.ca/eye
Perception Online
http://www.pion.co.uk/perception
“Perception.” E l p di Britannica 2007 Deluxe Edition.
“P ti ” Encyclopedia B it i D l Editi
Art and Visual Perception. Rudolf Arnheim, University of
California Press, 1984.
Mark Hardin’s A hi (www.artchive.com)
M k H di ’ Artchive (www.artchive.com)
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Colour. Bettey Edwards, Tarcher/Penguin, 2004.
Perception, Gestalt, Panopticon, etc (
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