Visual turn as an interpretive model of stage synthesis of arts in the culture of the XX–XXI century

Visual turn as an interpretive model of stage synthesis of arts in the culture of the XX–XXI century Purpose of the Article. The research is related to the definition of visual and virtual dimensions of the interpretation of fashion activity as a certain communicative scene. The research methodology is to apply a retrospective analysis of visual patterns in the stage space of everyday culture. The scientific novelty of the work is that the scene is perceived by the recipient as an optical phenomenon, has a wide space in which the actor of action or event performs certain communicative acts verbally and optically. The components of this synthesis plastically, gesturally, verbally-dramatically and optically-visually present a whole selection of arts that form a stage synthesis. Drama is verbalized as a plastic behavior, where the action, movements determine the high space of mise-en-scène of the tank, which testifies to both the expressive arts known since ancient Greek chorea and the visual-optical patterns. Thus, in the context of visual rotation, ocular centrism is actualized - trust in the picture. Conclusions. It should be noted that there is an artistic critique of the media, producers, galleries, magazines, that is, a space of unification and adequate representation of various art phenomena is formed. It is not the artists themselves, the actors of the big stage, the producers of the great culture of everyday life who live a full life, but those who create art events, local scenes of the presentation. Visual research tends to eclecticism, which turns into a polymorphic set of discourses, which indicates that you need to find a comfort zone, certain attractions of everyday culture. Without them, the realization of a modern art product is no longer possible. Advertising management, imageology are presented in society as an indirect reality, similar to virtual technology. Imagination as a video presentation becomes a problem of interpretation, a problem of vision. Visual culture tries to rehabilitate the image and determine its meaning without a name, without a name. Such a culture without a name leads to the fact that researchers are beginning to determine only what has a name. Art history describes the relationships between objects, chronological order, movement, formal preferences, and iconographic data. Needless to say, the work of art in this case remains an individual creation, a special source of life, and a social text. The culture of everyday life in the context of visual rotation is simultaneously a text, an image, a stage artifact, a pattern, and a flash image. Key words: culture, culture of everyday life, stage synthesis of culture of everyday life, image, visual turn.

EXPRESS: Manual training of mental rotation performance: Visual representation of rotating figures is the main driver for improvements

Studies have demonstrated that manual and mental rotation show common processes. Training studies have shown that a manual and concurrent visual rotation improves mental rotation performance. In this study, we separated the visual rotation from the manual rotation. 121 participants were randomly assigned to visual training, manual rotation training, or manual training without rotational movement. Before and after the training session of 30 minutes, they had to solve a chronometric mental rotation test. Data were analyzed with linear mixed models and showed an improvement in mental rotation performance for all groups. However, this improvement did not differ between groups. Due to the independence of the form and occurrence of the manual activity, this suggests that it is not the motor activity but the concurrent visual rotation that leads to improvements in mental rotation tasks. Therefore, the visual component in mental rotation tasks has to be investigated in more detail.

From logos to image: the trends in transformation of modern culture

The subject of this study is the transformation of modern culture associated with the visual turn. Using the dialectical method and systemic analysis, the author determines the trends in transformation of modern culture. The goal of article is to demonstrate the essence such changes, their vector and impact upon individual and society. The factors of transformation, its manifestations, and consequences are revealed. The works of the representatives of philosophy, culturology, sociology, history, etc. comprise the theoretical framework for this research. The empirical base contains the results of sociological survey conducted 2020 on the premises of two universities in the Altai Krai. The novelty consists in identification of the trends of cultural transformation under the influence of visual turn, their positive and negative consequences for individual and society, as well as generalization of numerous manifestations of these trends. The main conclusion of this study is the author's position about serious and contradictory transformations in society under the influence of visual rotation. The impact of visual rotation has both positive and negative development trends and their consequences. Among the positive effects of the visual turn, the author highlights stimulation of the development of visual thinking, which depends on functioning of the right brain. The author also indicates negative consequences of the visual transformation of culture. Perception through images weans people from thinking. Receiving information through images, rather than through speech, increases the clipping nature of consciousness. This entails the possibility of formation of an individual subject to manipulation. The presentation of images on the Internet and arrangement of visual series develops the habit of expecting “the solution of your problems by someone else” in the situation of choice. Another consequence of the transition from logos to image is the formation of prerequisites for “easy” submersion into virtual situations.

Reduced plantar sole sensitivity facilitates early adaptation to a visual rotation pointing task when standing upright

Humans are capable of pointing to a target with accuracy. However, when vision is distorted through a visual rotation or mirror-reversed vision, the performance is initially degraded and thereafter improves with practice. There are suggestions this gradual improvement results from a sensorimotor recalibration involving initial gating of the somatosensory information from the pointing hand. In the present experiment, we examined if this process interfered with balance control by asking participants to point to targets with a visual rotation from a standing posture. This duality in processing sensory information (i.e., gating sensory signals from the hand while processing those arising from the control of balance) could generate initial interference leading to a degraded pointing performance. We hypothesized that if this is the case, the attenuation of plantar sole somatosensory information through cooling could reduce the sensorimotor interference, and facilitate the early adaptation (i.e. improvement in the pointing task). Results supported this hypothesis. These observations suggest that processing sensory information for balance control interferes with the sensorimotor recalibration process imposed by a pointing task when vision is rotated.