What is it about?
This work explores how visual features (luminance, color, orientation, size) are able to represent numerical information, as done in various kinds of visualization. In particular, it looks at whether numerical information is conveyed as abstract number, without any direct connection with the sensory experience itself.
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Why is it important?
It shows that visual features have a characteristic kind of behavior, one which indicates that numerical information is conveyed as abstract number, without any direct tie-in with the sensory experience itself. This shows that a considerably amount of visual intelligence exists at early levels of visual processing.
Perspectives
It also shows how information visualizations can be investigated in a rigorous way, one which leads to new findings about human visual perception.
Ronald Rensink
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: Visual features as carriers of abstract quantitative information., Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/xge0001165.
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