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From: gerety@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Colin Gerety)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Images vs. Text
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Date: 4 Apr 91 19:34:27 GMT
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>> I'm doing work on hypertext visual interfaces and I
>>would like to be able to prove what seems evident to me,
>>that is,  that people can scan information presented
>>in a visual image-based form FASTER than in a plain
>>textual form.
>
>Yes, this makes sense. I can process an image IN PARALLEL. I can see a
>picture of a horse and immediately I know it is a horse.

  Both text and images are processed through the visual system.  See
the work of Ann Treisman for confirmation that some visual information
is processed in parallel and some serially and for examples of each
type.

Colin Gerety
gerety@hpfclp.sde.hp.com