Recently some colleagues shared an interesting documentary video (embedded above, from 3:00 onwards) about how the Himba perceive colors, and how language plays an important role in shaping color perception. It seems intuitive to us that visual perception, especially pre-attentive processing, is hard-wired in the brain. That is, endowed with the same neurological machinery, every [...]
Q: All these terms, mental models, schemas, coordination, etc. they are pretty fuzzy and not definite. I believe that to understand how InfoVis works we must understand how the brain works. A: First, understanding a phenomenon often involves multiple levels of description and explanation (e.g. the famous AI researcher David Marr proposed three levels of [...]
An interesting talk, but the main idea is not new. Gibson has rejected 20+ years ago the idea that vision is simplest when the eyes are fixed as if they are a camera taking a static snapshot to be transmitted to the brain. Visual information does not arrive at the eyes in the form of [...]