On first seeing the wallpaper, viewers have "a pleasant visual engagement" with it, Ms. Splan said.
The Peekskill Gallery is so large that Alex Uribe's "New Wave," a sculpture of many parts that rise and fall like a string of dominoes, can cross it on a diagonal and be a serene, rather than an overwhelming, contributor to the gallery's pleasant visual buzz.
The discrimination tasks were administered using a child friendly interface coded in Matlab which provided pleasant visual feedback in the form of a smiley cartoon following each correct response and a sad smiley cartoon following each incorrect one.
This will create a pleasant visual effect and allow each tile that is placed beside it on either side seem centered.
Anti-Robinson loss functions are global criteria for quantifying how far a similarity matrix is from a Robinson matrix and therefore how 'smooth and pleasant' the visual effect of the original matrix is not.
Subjects performed a behavioural task designed for schizophrenia patients in which they could seek exposure to pleasant and cannabis visual stimuli on the basis of internal representations of these stimuli.
In the present study, we asked whether other categories of man-made images that are presumably created to evoke pleasant or enjoyable visual perception in humans also display 1/f2 characteristics in the Fourier domain.
In conclusion, the man-made stimuli studied, which were presumably produced to evoke pleasant and/or enjoyable visual perception in human observers, form a subset of all images and share statistical properties in their Fourier power spectra.
Dopaminergic neurons within the nucleus accumbens play a critical role in reward processing, and past work finds evidence for this brain region's engagement when participants view pleasant or reinforcing visual stimuli 31, 32 or listen to music.
The resulted visual impact tends to be lower where it is less visually pleasant with more buildings in the view, and can be slightly reduced by the visual absorption effect of the scattered trees between the motorway and the viewpoint.
