In that situation, widening the eyes increases the scope of one's visual field, which is instrumental in quickly visually processing that stimulus, allowing situation-appropriate reactions (e.g., duck and cover; Shariff & Tracy, 2011; Susskind et al., 2008).
All of the above applications for freehand drawings do not detect what has been drawn by visually processing the results but by detecting the movement of the stylus.
On the more visually challenging Silhouettes and Progressive Silhouettes tests of the VOSP (Warrington and James 1991), the majority of UK patients showed evidence of general visual processing deficits.
Contours were inspected visually after processing to ensure accurate edge detection.
One comprised the fronto-opercular area, intrasylvian area, medial frontal gyrus, and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), possibly associated with processing of visually degraded percepts.
Since both the target and context were visually presented, perceptual processing of visually presented stimuli likely facilitated the formation of source memory in these conditions.
These findings suggest that perceptual processing of visually presented targets and context was critical for promoting the formation of successful source memory, as the contextual feature associated with the target item was a visual attribute of color.
For example, Baker and Jessup (1980) argue that verbal processing is more characteristic of depressive ideation than visual processing; when dysphoric participants were directed to process information visually (with mental images), rather than verbally, visual processing was rated as more euphoric than verbal processing.
One possible cause of DAT object recognition impairments could involve deficits in processing structural aspects of visually presented items.
This integration of sensory and postural inputs at late stages of visual object processing, as well as in other visually responsive areas, reinforces the view of vision as an active, embodied process rather than a passive representational process [63].
