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  2. Depth perception - Wikipedia

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    Depth sensation is the corresponding term for non-human animals, since although it is known that they can sense the distance of an object, it is not known whether they perceive it in the same way that humans do. [1] Depth perception arises from a variety of depth cues. These are typically classified into binocular cues and monocular cues ...

  3. Visual sociology - Wikipedia

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    Visual sociology attempts to study visual images produced as part of culture. Art , photographs , film , video , fonts , advertisements , computer icons , landscape , architecture , machines , fashion , makeup , hair style , facial expressions , tattoos , and so on are parts of the complex visual communication system produced by members of ...

  4. Forced perspective - Wikipedia

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    The technique takes advantage of the visual cues humans use to perceive depth such as angular size, aerial perspective, shading, and relative size. In film, photography and art, perceived object distance is manipulated by altering fundamental monocular cues used to discern the depth of an object in the scene such as aerial perspective, blurring ...

  5. Sensory cue - Wikipedia

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    A cue is some organization of the data present in the signal which allows for meaningful extrapolation. For example, sensory cues include visual cues, auditory cues, haptic cues, olfactory cues and environmental cues. Sensory cues are a fundamental part of theories of perception, especially theories of appearance (how things look).

  6. Social cue - Wikipedia

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    A few examples of social cues include: eye gaze; facial expression; vocal tone; body language; Social cues are part of social cognition and serve several purposes in navigating the social world. Due to our social nature, humans rely heavily on the ability to understand other peoples' mental states and make predictions about their behaviour.

  7. Ambiguous image - Wikipedia

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    The Necker Cube: a wire frame cube with no depth cues. Figures drawn in a way that avoids depth cues may become ambiguous. Classic examples of this phenomenon are the Necker cube, [6] and the rhombille tiling (viewed as an isometric drawing of cubes). To go further than just perceiving the object is to recognize the object.

  8. Sociological Images - Wikipedia

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    Sociological images was founded in 2007 by sociology professor Lisa Wade (Occidental College) and hosted at Blogspot to share ideas and teaching resources with other faculty teaching about sociology. Six professors were invited to serve as the foundational bloggers.

  9. Semiotics - Wikipedia

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    The break from traditional art history and theory—as well as from other major streams of semiotic analysis—leaves open a wide variety of possibilities for pictorial semiotics. Some influences have been drawn from phenomenological analysis, cognitive psychology, structuralist, and cognitivist linguistics, and visual anthropology and sociology.