2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Understanding Pictorial Perception
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16K02109
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
オデイ ジョン 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (50534377)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | perception |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Pictures are odd because they are both illlusory and not illusory, simultaneously. The ability to (in some sense) literally see a 3D scene where there is merely a flat 2D surface is both extrmely useful, and hard to explain. Hence, for one thing, it was a terrible explanation for how ordinary vision works. Of the three main extant theories of picture perception, only one is specific to vision, but it is the most widely held. Given that it is often assumed that pictures are specific to vision, it is an important to know whether this assumption holds. Papers I presented this year bore on this question. I argued that picture perception is indeed specific to vision, and this has important consequences for theories both of picture perception and the sense modalities.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research is proceeding as planned.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
My tentative conclusions that picture perception is unique to vision are truly tentative, and it is still unclear exactly why this is so. In the final year of this research, I plan to investigate this further, with a view to drawing solid conclusions about the nature of picture perception and the division of the sense modalities.
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