Willem E. Frankenhuis, H. Clark Barrett,, and Scott P. Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195393705
- eISBN:
- 9780199979271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0008
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Newborn infants have a special affinity for motion. It is not surprising, therefore, that the perception of biological motion has an important role in the early development of infants. This chapter ...
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Newborn infants have a special affinity for motion. It is not surprising, therefore, that the perception of biological motion has an important role in the early development of infants. This chapter describes the development of biological motion perception across early development. The chapter provides a critical discussion about whether “limitations” in infants’ visual system may reflect attunements that adaptively orient infants toward significant others (e.g., caregivers), describes the visual behavior of infants as evidence that they are actively selecting agents as targets of their attention, and provides a review of the overlaps between adult and infant vision research.Less
Newborn infants have a special affinity for motion. It is not surprising, therefore, that the perception of biological motion has an important role in the early development of infants. This chapter describes the development of biological motion perception across early development. The chapter provides a critical discussion about whether “limitations” in infants’ visual system may reflect attunements that adaptively orient infants toward significant others (e.g., caregivers), describes the visual behavior of infants as evidence that they are actively selecting agents as targets of their attention, and provides a review of the overlaps between adult and infant vision research.
Zhong-Lin Lu and Barbara Dosher
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780262019453
- eISBN:
- 9780262314930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262019453.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Vision
Humans are visual creatures. The amazing abilities of human vision far exceed the capabilities of the most sophisticated machines and may inspire new machine design. Human visual capabilities and ...
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Humans are visual creatures. The amazing abilities of human vision far exceed the capabilities of the most sophisticated machines and may inspire new machine design. Human visual capabilities and processes can only be known through an interdisciplinary approach that combines visual psychophysics, understanding of brain responses, and computational models of visual function. Visual psychophysics studies the relationship between the physical stimulus in the outside world and how that is connected to human performance. It has played a central role in the understanding of human visual capabilities and the brain. In addition, the assessment of human vision through applications of human visual psychophysics has been the core discipline behind the design of standards for visual devices and has many other practical applications.Less
Humans are visual creatures. The amazing abilities of human vision far exceed the capabilities of the most sophisticated machines and may inspire new machine design. Human visual capabilities and processes can only be known through an interdisciplinary approach that combines visual psychophysics, understanding of brain responses, and computational models of visual function. Visual psychophysics studies the relationship between the physical stimulus in the outside world and how that is connected to human performance. It has played a central role in the understanding of human visual capabilities and the brain. In addition, the assessment of human vision through applications of human visual psychophysics has been the core discipline behind the design of standards for visual devices and has many other practical applications.
Peter K. Manning
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226503516
- eISBN:
- 9780226503523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226503523.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance
This chapter uses frame analysis to examine how policing is “seen,” what the dynamics of this seeing are, and how the image(s) of policing has changed in the last thirty years. It is part of the ...
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This chapter uses frame analysis to examine how policing is “seen,” what the dynamics of this seeing are, and how the image(s) of policing has changed in the last thirty years. It is part of the movement toward mediated social control and its effects. The bulk of the chapter is given over to a frame analysis of how policing is shown. Using Goffman's Frame Analysis, it is argued that policing is framed in four quite distinctive ways. The aim in describing these ways of keying, and their internal and external variants, as well as the police-media dialogue, is to suggest changes in the complexity of the visual environment of modern policing.Less
This chapter uses frame analysis to examine how policing is “seen,” what the dynamics of this seeing are, and how the image(s) of policing has changed in the last thirty years. It is part of the movement toward mediated social control and its effects. The bulk of the chapter is given over to a frame analysis of how policing is shown. Using Goffman's Frame Analysis, it is argued that policing is framed in four quite distinctive ways. The aim in describing these ways of keying, and their internal and external variants, as well as the police-media dialogue, is to suggest changes in the complexity of the visual environment of modern policing.
Thomas Veigl
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262015721
- eISBN:
- 9780262315159
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262015721.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter explores the concept of Machinima, a 3-dimensional computer graphics rendering engine that was used mostly in the digital gaming sector and computer-animated films. The author shows how ...
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This chapter explores the concept of Machinima, a 3-dimensional computer graphics rendering engine that was used mostly in the digital gaming sector and computer-animated films. The author shows how the unanticipated user interacts with the computer games by referring to the Machinima concept as the new visual media environment. The previous development and current scenario, along with the innovation, invention, modification, and commercial uses of this new concept, take the discussion further in the next parts of the chapter. In the final part of the chapter, the author focuses on the barriers, legal aspects, and copyright issues of Machinima, which affect the social and cultural changes in the gaming environment.Less
This chapter explores the concept of Machinima, a 3-dimensional computer graphics rendering engine that was used mostly in the digital gaming sector and computer-animated films. The author shows how the unanticipated user interacts with the computer games by referring to the Machinima concept as the new visual media environment. The previous development and current scenario, along with the innovation, invention, modification, and commercial uses of this new concept, take the discussion further in the next parts of the chapter. In the final part of the chapter, the author focuses on the barriers, legal aspects, and copyright issues of Machinima, which affect the social and cultural changes in the gaming environment.
Andrzej Piotrowski
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816673049
- eISBN:
- 9781452945835
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816673049.001.0001
- Subject:
- Architecture, Architectural Theory and Criticism
This book maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most ...
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This book maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. According to the text, material structures enable people to think in new ways—distill emerging or alter existing worldviews—before words can stabilize them as conventional narratives. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, the book traces ancient to modern architectural histories and—through critical readings of select buildings—examines the role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated Western identity. Operating from the assertion that buildings are the most permanent record of unself-conscious beliefs and attitudes, it discusses Byzantium and the West after iconoclasm, the conquest and colonization of Mesoamerica, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe, the rise of the culture of consumerism in Victorian England, and High Modernism as its consequence. By moving beyond the assumption that historical structures reflect transcendental values and deterministic laws of physics or economy or have been shaped by self-conscious individuals, the book challenges the traditional knowledge of what architecture is and can be.Less
This book maps and conceptually explores material practices of the past, showing how physical artifacts and visual environments manifest culturally rooted modes of thought and participate in the most nuanced processes of negotiations and ideological exchanges. According to the text, material structures enable people to think in new ways—distill emerging or alter existing worldviews—before words can stabilize them as conventional narratives. Combining design thinking with academic methods of inquiry, the book traces ancient to modern architectural histories and—through critical readings of select buildings—examines the role of nonverbal exchanges in the development of an accumulated Western identity. Operating from the assertion that buildings are the most permanent record of unself-conscious beliefs and attitudes, it discusses Byzantium and the West after iconoclasm, the conquest and colonization of Mesoamerica, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Eastern Europe, the rise of the culture of consumerism in Victorian England, and High Modernism as its consequence. By moving beyond the assumption that historical structures reflect transcendental values and deterministic laws of physics or economy or have been shaped by self-conscious individuals, the book challenges the traditional knowledge of what architecture is and can be.
