| Abstract | Used the concepts of iconic and schematic memory to examine 2 fundamental and related features of the contemporary theory of visual information processing: (a) the orientation of indirect realism which emphasizes the equivocality and inadequacy of the light at the eyes and the necessity of epistemic mediation, and (b) the analysis of visual processing into discrete temporal cross sections perpendicular to the flow of optical information. That the 2 features are closely cognate is revealed in the interpretation of event perception--the perception of change wrought over an object or object complex--as a deduction from or assimilation of (epistemic mediators) a sequence of static arrangements (discrete, temporal cross sections) represented iconically or schematically. On rational and empirical grounds, it is argued that (a) the discrete sampling of a continuous optical flow is not a tenable assumption, (b) the informational support for event perception cannot be static iconic or schematic memories, and (c) the perception of style of change cannot be epistemically mediated. Insofar as indirect realism receives little support from the analysis of event perception, direct realism is given due consideration as an alternative and radically different orientation to the theory of visual information processing. |
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