Visual-object ability: A new dimension of non-verbal intelligence

Blazhenkova, Olesya; Kozhevnikov, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.021

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“…The data from a qualitative interview study, partially reported by Blazhenkova and Kozhevnikov (2010), provided further support for the above findings and indicated that, even at the highest levels of information processing, scientists tend to deal with information more analytically, whereas artists tend to deal with information more intuitively. Despite the reported differences between the analytical, rule-based approach style adopted by scientists and the intuitive style adopted by artists, substantial historical evidence suggests that intuition plays a major role in scientific work.…”

Section: Context Independence Versus Context Dependencesupporting

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Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition

Kozhevnikov

Evans

Kosslyn

2014

Psychol Sci Public Interest

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The key aims of this article are to relate the construct of cognitive style to current theories in cognitive psychology and neuroscience and to outline a framework that integrates the findings on individual differences in cognition across different disciplines. First, we characterize cognitive style as patterns of adaptation to the external world that develop on the basis of innate predispositions, the interactions among which are shaped by changing environmental demands. Second, we show that research on cognitive style in psychology and cross-cultural neuroscience, on learning styles in education, and on decision-making styles in business and management all address the same phenomena. Third, we review cognitive-psychology and neuroscience research that supports the validity of the concept of cognitive style. Fourth, we show that various styles from disparate disciplines can be organized into a single taxonomy. This taxonomy allows us to integrate all the well-documented cognitive, learning, and decision-making styles; all of these style types correspond to adaptive systems that draw on different levels of information processing. Finally, we discuss how the proposed approach might promote greater coherence in research and application in education, in business and management, and in other disciplines.

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Section: Context Independence Versus Context Dependencesupporting

confidence: 69%

Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition

Kozhevnikov

Evans

Kosslyn

2014

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“…Mathews and Mackintosh (2004) found that scene extrapolation interacts with individual differences in emotionality: BE for very negative scenes was reduced in hightrait-anxious individuals. Blazhenkova and Kozhevnikov (2010) indicated positive association between individual differences in emotion and object, but not spatial, imagery. Therefore, in the present study, it was expected that both, individual differences in emotional ability and object imagery, similar to each other, would be positively related to BE in face processing.…”

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Boundary Extension in Face Processing

Blazhenkova

2017

i-Perception

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Boundary extension is a common false memory error, in which people confidently remember seeing a wider angle view of the scene than was viewed. Previous research found that boundary extension is scene-specific and did not examine this phenomenon in nonscenes. The present research explored boundary extension in cropped face images. Participants completed either a short-term or a long-term condition of the task. During the encoding, they observed photographs of faces, cropped either in a forehead or in a chin area, and subsequently performed face recognition through a forced-choice selection. The recognition options represented different degrees of boundary extension and boundary restriction errors. Eye-tracking and performance data were collected. The results demonstrated boundary extension in both memory conditions. Furthermore, previous literature reported the asymmetry in amounts of expansion at different sides of an image. The present work provides the evidence of asymmetry in boundary extension. In the short-term condition, boundary extension errors were more pronounced for forehead, than for chin face areas. Finally, this research examined the relationships between the measures of boundary extension, imagery, and emotion. The results suggest that individual differences in emotional ability and object, but not spatial, imagery could be associated with boundary extension in face processing.

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“…Moreover, they tend to regard originality as an aesthetic quality more so than non-experts [9]. In the abstract art interpretation task, Blazhenkova and Kozhevnikov [12] found that visual artists (designers and painters) tended to see abstract art as abstract representations, but scientists and humanities/social science professionals tended to provide literal interpretations. Conversely, in the graph interpretation task, visual artists interpreted graphs literally (graphs-as-pictures), but scientists interpret graphs schematically.…”

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The Influence of the Designer’s Expertise on Emotional Responses

Hsieh

2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This study examined whether people who had received design training responded differently to non-verbal risk communication materials. More specifically, it examined whether the level of expertise affected the emotions. The study measured emotional responses to visual stimuli in 324 Taiwanese participants (users, novice designers, intermediate designers and expert designers), using a Chinese translation of the abbreviated PAD Emotion Scales. Significant main effects of varying levels of expertise were found on all three dimensions of the PAD. Design expertise was inversely related to pleasure; the more design experience, the more unpleasant they rated the stimuli. Design expertise was positively related to arousal; the more design experience, the more arousing they perceived the stimuli. Design expertise was negatively related to dominance; the more design experience, the more 'submissive' they rated the stimuli.

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Visual-object ability: A new dimension of non-verbal intelligence

Cited by 100 publications

References 73 publications

Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition

Cognitive Style as Environmentally Sensitive Individual Differences in Cognition

Boundary Extension in Face Processing

The Influence of the Designer’s Expertise on Emotional Responses

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