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Pictures as a means of conveying information
1Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus 43210.
The Journal of General Psychology
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
These two experiments, which were conducted at a large midwestern American university, demonstrated that naive art observers can recognize tangible objects that are represented realistically in a picture. However, naive art observers cannot perceive the abstract themes that are portrayed in a picture unless they are informed about the relationships between the pictorial symbols and the concepts they represent.