A semantics of pictorial representation should provide an account how signs are associated with the contents they express. Unlike familiar spoken languages, this problem has a distinctively spatial cast for depiction. Pictures themselves two-dimensional artifacts, and their take form spaces, perspectival arrangements objects properties in three dimensions. basic challenge is to explain pictures...

Recent investigators have proposed that amodal completion is a sequential process requiring a preliminary mosaic stage. Results of 6 studies of the time course of completion processes show support for this mosaic-first view with pictorial displays, but not with displays involving occlusion specified by binocular parallax or when pictorial displays were observed monocularly. These results still ...

Anybody who grows flowers in their garden in temperate regions will likely owe a debt to South Africa. The country has one of the most diverse and brash flora in the world. The Western Cape is a magnet for plant lovers. More than 8,000 species are found here compared with a mere 1,500 species in Britain. And there is an extraordinary number of endemics — 70 per cent of species here are not foun...

Studies of implicit memory for novel associations have focused primarily on verbal materials and have highlighted the contribution of conceptually unitized representations to such priming. Using pictorial stimuli in a perceptual identification task, we examined whether new association priming can occur at a purely perceptual level. By manipulating the spatial contiguity of stimuli, we also eval...