creators_name: Beeckmans, John
type: other
datestamp: 2001-01-02
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:28
metadata_visibility: show
title: Generation of Conceptual Gists of Abstract Patterns
ispublished: unpub
subjects: percep-cog-psy
full_text_status: public
keywords: perception, vision, gist, information, conceptual short-term memory, image.
abstract: A short study was made on the generation of conceptual gists of two abstract stimuli containing either 66 or 200 circles in a range of sizes arranged in symmetric patterns. Distributions of estimates the numerousness of the circles, made by groups of subjects following either 95 ms or 2 s exposures had realistic average values, and were comparable between groups, indicating that gists of the principal geometrical features of the stimuli were captured and consolidated into long-term memory on the basis of a single fixation. Implications of this finding for the controversy on the nature of the coding of images and for the minimalist vision hypothesis are discussed.
date: 2001
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
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citation:   Beeckmans, John  (2001) Generation of Conceptual Gists of Abstract Patterns.     (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1173/1/gist.htm