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Are You a Top-Down or Bottom-Up Viewer?

June 22, 2017

 

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A recent study has shown that children and adults look at art in very different ways. Adults use top-down processing — driven by voluntary factors that are internal to the observer – such as prior knowledge of the work. On the other hand, children use bottom-down processing — involuntary and driven purely by what viewers are seeing. So, which are you … an adult or a child?

 

Source: Prior knowledge may influence how adults view van Goghs

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