Aesthetic Preferences in the Size of Images of Real-World Objects

Linsen, Sarah; Leyssen, M.H.R.; Sammartino, Jonathan; Palmer, Stephen

doi:10.1068/p6835

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“…Consistent with this idea, a number of researchers have claimed that stored information about real-world size is represented in a perceptual or analog format (Moyer, 1973; Paivio, 1975; Rubinsten & Henik, 2002). Further, objects have a canonical visual size, proportional to the log of their familiar size, where smaller objects like alarm clocks are preferred at smaller visual sizes, and larger objects like horses are preferred at larger visual sizes (Konkle & Oliva, 2011; Linsen, Leyssen, Sammartino, & Palmer, 2011). On this more perceptual account of interference, in the congruent condition both objects have a better match to stored representations, which include visual size information, facilitating and/or interfering with visual size judgments.…”

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A familiar-size Stroop effect: Real-world size is an automatic property of object representation.

Konkle

Oliva

2012

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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When we recognize an object, do we automatically know how big it is in the world? We employed a Stroop-like paradigm, in which two familiar objects were presented at different visual sizes on the screen. Observers were faster to indicate which was bigger or smaller on the screen when the real-world size of the objects was congruent with the visual size than when it was incongruent— demonstrating a familiar-size Stroop effect. Critically, the real-world size of the objects was irrelevant for the task. This Stroop effect was also present when only one item was present at a congruent or incongruent visual size on the display. In contrast, no Stroop effect was observed for participants who simply learned a rule to categorize novel objects as big or small. These results show that people access the familiar size of objects without the intention of doing so, demonstrating that real-world size is an automatic property of object representation.

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A familiar-size Stroop effect: Real-world size is an automatic property of object representation.

Konkle

Oliva

2012

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

139

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“…The canonical size effect was reported to be related to the real-world size of the stimulus objects (Konkle & Oliva, 2011;Linsen et al, 2011). However, it is unclear whether the objects in our stimulus would be included in this type of preference.…”

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“…Our behavior is often influenced by aesthetic preferences. There are numerous studies on the relationship between visual aesthetic judgments and preferences with visual features such as color (Granger, 1955;Guilford & Smith, 1959;Hurlbert & Ling, 2007;McManus, Jones, & Cottrell, 1982;Palmer & Schloss, 2010), spatial frequency (Graham & Field, 2007;Graham & Redies, 2010), orientation (Latto & Russell-Duff, 2002), and size (Konkle & Oliva, 2011;Linsen, Leyssen, Sammartino, & Palmer, 2011). Such visual preferences often affect our behavior.…”

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“…Several studies have investigated visual preferences regarding object size in pictures (Bertamini, Bennett, & Bode, 2011;Konkle & Oliva, 2011;Kosslyn, 1978;Linsen et al, 2011) and demonstrated that there is a canonical size for objects, which has a certain relationship to the size of the object in the real world. Konkle and Oliva (2011) found that the preferred visual size of the picture of an object is proportional to the logarithm of its known physical size.…”

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Effects of content and viewing distance on the preferred size of moving images

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While visual size preferences regarding still objects have been investigated and linked to the "canonical size" effect-where preferred on-screen size was significantly related to objects' real-world size-the visual size preferences related to moving images of natural scenes has not been researched. In this study, we measured the preferred size of moving images of natural scenes and short duration and investigated the effect of viewing distance on size preferences. Our results showed that the preferred size varied strongly depending on content, and we found moving images' canonical size effect. The preferred size in images of scenery was significantly larger than in images of persons, and there was a positive correlation between the preferred size and the real-world physical size of the main subjects in the images. When the viewing distance was doubled, the preferred size increased about 10% as a ratio to screen size-in contrast to the findings of a previous study. While the rationale for these findings is not yet clear, our analysis suggests that neither the motion component in the images nor the nature of their background area are contributing factors. We suggest that environment, viewing distance, and screen size may contribute to this effect.

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“…Reportedly, the size and color of an element object are responsible for giving some impression [6][7][8][9]. Furthermore, Stevanov et al showed that visual illusion has valence for aesthetic impressions [10].…”

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Gathering and Repetition of the Elements in an Image Affect the Perception of Order and Disorder

Matsuda

2014

IJAE

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When looking at visual patterns, we receive various impressions such as goodness, complexity, and beauty. This study was conducted to identify the stimulus factors giving rise to impressions of order and disorder. We presented two visual patterns simultaneously with manipulation of the stimulus factors of gathering. Participants reported which pattern was more disorderly. Gathering index was defined to indicate the degree of gathering of elements in the pattern. Results showed that the disorder ranking value calculated from the responses increased as the value of gathering decreased. Results also showed that the disorder ranking value decreased as the number of local repetition in the whole stimulus increased only when the gathering value was small. From the results of present study, we conclude that factors of gathering and repetition affect impression of order and disorder. We suggest that the gathering value indicates whether there are any objects or not in the pattern and the repetition value indicates whether there are any texture or not. Objects and textures seem to be the important concept to analyze or recognize visual patterns for human. Therefore, we can suppose the impression of order and disorder tells us whether there is meaningful information in visual patterns.

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Aesthetic Preferences in the Size of Images of Real-World Objects

Cited by 24 publications

References 3 publications

A familiar-size Stroop effect: Real-world size is an automatic property of object representation.

A familiar-size Stroop effect: Real-world size is an automatic property of object representation.

Effects of content and viewing distance on the preferred size of moving images

Gathering and Repetition of the Elements in an Image Affect the Perception of Order and Disorder

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