As such, they are at odd with many earlier and later findings, presented in the previous and next sections, about visual shape processing in rats, especially those of Gaffan and colleagues [147,160] (see Section 4.2) and Zoccolan and colleagues [118 120] (see Sections 5.1 and 5.2).
Such is the difference between two brain areas involved in perceiving visual shapes.
The areas BA37 [21], [21] and V3 (BA19) [22] have been implicated in object and shape recognition, and BA7 in categorizing or discriminating a visual shape from others [23].
We claim that it is the re-cognition of visual shapes and images in design that enables emergence.
Second, a visual dominance is often observed in adults: the bimodal exploration (simultaneous visual and haptic exploration) of spatial properties of shape is not more efficient (when the test is visual) than unimodal visual shape exploration.
These tests confirmed and extended Lashley's early reports about rat capability to discriminate visual shapes in spite of size variation (i.e., both larger and smaller versions of the rectangles) and changes to their surface/outline (i.e., breaking the rectangles into discontinuous segments).
There were 72 visual shapes and 72 tactile shapes in total.
Other pieces are devoted to specific artists or to Ms. Schapiro's life, and everything she does -- bright in color, dense in visual texture -- is shaped by a painter's eye.
Scape, Bloom, and Trope are all exercises in visual music making, using shapes, colors, and drawing in place of traditional composition (Oblique Strategy: "Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them").
Importantly, earlier behavioral studies have ruled out the tendency to perceive shapes in visual dot displays as a critical factor for rapid enumeration (subitizing) of visual dot displays (Trick and Pylyshyn 1994).
In 1983, astronomers observing NGC 6240 in visual light found that its shape is strongly distorted--an indication that it consists of two galaxies that have collided.
