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 ...

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...

This paper proposes and discusses an eXtended Pictorial Query Language (XPQL) for geographic data, and its possible use on the Web. This query language is mapped in Geographic Markup Language (GML 3.0), which is used for transport to the Web and storage of geographic information, including spatial and non-spatial properties of geographic features, as well as the temporal and topological propert...

This paper mainly studies attribute reduction which keeps the lattice structure in formal contexts based on the property pictorial diagram. Firstly, the property pictorial diagram of a formal context is defined. Based on such diagram, an attribute reduction approach of concept lattice is achieved. Then, through the relation between an original formal context and its complementary context, an at...

Adults can use pictorial depth cues to infer three-dimensional structure in two-dimensional depictions of objects. The age at which infants respond to the same kinds of visual information has not been determined, and theories about the underlying developmental mechanisms remain controversial. In this study, we used a visual habituation/novelty-preference procedure to assess the ability of 4-mon...