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Depth Pictorial Perception; Culture & Psychological Differentiational
Professor A.Y. Mshelia

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The problem of distinguishing perception from conception as a model of “KNOWING” is a long-standing issue in psychology (Hochberg, 1962). The study of perception, especially as it relates to picture perception, invariably entails a conception of space or what Gibson (1950) called “Visual world/field”. Space to Gibson can theoretically be divided into two visual subcategories of “visual world” and “visual field”. He conceived of visual world to be that which extends in distance and modeled in depth. It is that which is “… without boundaries… and most important of all it is filled with things which have meaning” (Gibson, 1950, p.3). Visual field on the other hand, according to Gibson, has a “pictorial quality” and depicts scenes in “perspectives”.

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