To: Color and Vision Network <cvnet@lawton.ewind.com>
From: "Kyle R. Cave" <kc@coglit.soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: CVNet - query; Attneave Shapes
>From: "Timothy J. Vander Velde" <timv@uoneuro.uoregon.edu>
>To: cvnet@kirkham.ewind.com
>Subject: Attneave Shapes
>
>List Members:
>
>My name is Timothy J. Vander Velde, I’m a doctoral student within
>the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon.
>
>I am writing with the hope that you might be able to help me locate
>a set of images I would like to employ in a research project. The
>images I am in search of are refereed to as “ ‘4pt quad’ Attneave
>Shapes “. There are a set of these shapes which were designed to
>be “not easily described” by common verbiage. I hope to locate a
>full set of these images either as hard copies on paper, or in some
>electronic format (graphically designed or a high resolution scan).
>Regardless of the format in which I am able to acquire the images,
>the desired end result is to project them on screen for subjects to
>view under a variety of dual task conditions.
>
>My hopes are the following.
> a) That you may have access to such materials.
> b) That you might be able to provide any information on
> how to acquire them.
> c) That you might recommend a person to contact, or an
> arena in which to post an additional request for information
> that might be helpful.
>
>I would be exceptionally grateful for any suggestions or tips that
>you might be able to provide.
>
My memory is that there is a paper by Fred Attneave published some time in
the 1950's that describes the procedure he used for generating these
shapes. I think it is Attneave (1957). JEP 53: 221-227.
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