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Ecological perception research, visual communication, and aesthetics
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This paper examines the contribution ofcross-cultural studies to our understanding ofthe perception and representation of space. A cross-cultural survey of the basic difficulties in understanding pictures -ranging from the failure to recognise a picture as a representation to the inability to recognise the object represented in the picture -indicates that similar daculties occur in pictorial and nonpictorial cultures. The experimental work on pictorial space derives from two distinct traditions: the study of picture perception in "remote" populations and thestudy of the perceptual illusions. A comparison of the findings on pictorial space perception with those on real space perception and perceptual constancy suggests that cross-cultural differences in the perception of both real and representational space involve two different types of skills: those related exclusively to either real space or representational space, and those related to both. Different cultural groups use different skills to perform the same perceptual tasks.
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