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alphanumeric
Of or relating to a character set, data set, or variable, consisting of letters of the alphabet, numerals, and usually a few other symbols such as punctuation marks and basic mathematical symbols. ...
ambient optical array
James Gibson's term for the patterning of light and shade that constitutes a perceiver's immediate sensory environment. See also field.
binocular vision
The ability, found only in animals with forward-facing eyes, to produce a focused image of the same object simultaneously on the retinas of both eyes. This permits three-dimensional vision and ...
blind spot
The small area of the retina of the eye where the nerve fibres from the light-sensitive cells (see cone, rod) lead into the optic nerve. There are no rods or cones in this area and hence it does not ...
field theory
Any theory in which phenomena are interpreted as resulting from the dynamic interplay of elements within a field, especially (in psychology) the theory introduced in 1935 by the Polish/German-born US ...
figure and ground
In the psychology of perception, the organization of a perceptual field into a figure (the subject) with a form or structure that stands out against and in front of a relatively undifferentiated ...
film mode
The approximation of the progressive scanning movement of film on video achieved by duplicating either field 1 or field 2 of the video frame. In the early days of nonlinear editing, the software ...
frame
See also framing.1. A physical structure within which a painting, drawing, or photograph is formally displayed: see also landscape format; portrait format.2. A printed border around material on a ...
hemispheric lateralization
The hypothesis that the left and right hemispheres of the human cerebral cortex differ in their psychological functions. For most people (most right-handed people and some left-handers) the left ...
interlace frame
A single frame of video consisting of two fields encoded with separate information representing two successive ‘snapshots’. Compare progressive segmented frame.
life space
A term introduced in 1936 by the Polish/German-born US psychologist Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) to refer to the psychological field, comprising the person P and the person's environment E, jointly ...
literature review
(social sciences) A formal, reflective survey of the most significant and relevant works of published and peer-reviewed academic research on a particular topic, summarizing and discussing their ...
neural adaptation
Adaptive changes in the nervous system in response to training. Neural adaptations are concerned with the ability of the nervous system to activate and coordinate the appropriate muscles for a task. ...
observational study
Any of several varieties of nonexperimental scientific investigation in which the investigator relies on direct or indirect observation of a situation or behavior, for example a natural experiment or ...
persistence of vision
1. A discredited theory explaining the perception of motion pictures which assumes that an impression of the visual field (known as an after-image) either remains on the retina of the eye or is ...
progressive scanning
A method of forming the display on a computer monitor, by scanning the screen line-by-line. It gives higher quality than interlace scanning used in television.
progressive segmented frame
A digital high-definition video format in which both fields of video are encoded with an image that represents the same instant of time. This creates a filmic look to the motion of video which, ...
pull-down
A method used to transfer film running at 24 frames per second via a telecine for transmission on NTSC television systems running at 30 frames per second. The first frame of film occupies three ...
reading direction
The sequential flow of the writing system of a particular language (e.g. for English this is left to right; for Arabic or Hebrew it is right to left). Linguists Ting Ting Chan and Benjamin Bergen ...
Robbers Cave experiment
A field experiment on conflict and cooperation carried out by the US-based Turkish psychologist Muzafer Sherif (1906–88) and several colleagues in the summer of 1954 and published in books entitled ...
