Components of artistic style: turning people into pigeons
Date
2013
Authors
Gross, Shelley
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, c2013
Abstract
Family resemblance describes the covarying information across members of a category.
In an attempt to demonstrate human categorization based on family resemblance|
that is, on the style of a category, it seems that categorical definition must be made an
incidental part of the task so that participants employ a strategy described by Brooks
(1978) as "nonanalytic cognition". Eigenvectors obtained from the dimension reduction
of pixel-maps describe the underlying structural variation across a set of images.
Partially reconstructed images made from a subset of their derived eigenvectors were
used as stimuli in investigating judgements of style, as they appear to be without
human-nameable features. The following exploratory experiments provide evidence
for spontaneous judgements based on family resemblance using as little information
as is contained in the first 10 eigenvectors of Monet and Picasso paintings.
Description
x, 70 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
Keywords
Visual perception , Visualization , Art -- Psychology , Recognition (Psychology) , Categorization (Psychology) , Dissertations, Academic