1. Attentional vs computational complexity measures in observing paintings.
- Author
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Cardaci M, Di Gesù V, Petrou M, and Tabacchi ME
- Subjects
- Factor Analysis, Statistical, Humans, Photic Stimulation, Attention physiology, Distance Perception physiology, Form Perception physiology, Medicine in the Arts, Paintings, Pattern Recognition, Visual physiology
- Abstract
Because of the great heterogeneity of subjects and styles, esthetic perception delineates a special and elusive field of research in vision, which represents an interesting challenge for cognitive science tools. With specific regard to the role of visual complexity, in this paper we present an experiment aimed to measure this dimension in a heterogeneous set of paintings. We compared perceived time complexity measures - based on a temporal estimation paradigm - with physical and statistical properties of the paintings, obtaining a strong correlation between psychological and computational results.
- Published
- 2009
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