Karya Patung Abstrak Lisa Widiarti Ditinjau Dari Bentuk Dan Medium

This study discusses the form and medium used by Lisa Widiarti in making abstract sculptures. This study also briefly discusses Lisa Widiarti's short artistic journey. The discussion uses qualitative research methods, which include: observation, interviews, and literature study as well as research conducted in the city of Padang, West Sumatra. Based on the results of research on Lisa Widiarti's abstract sculpture, Lisa has produced dozens of abstract sculptures and almost every year always participates in exhibition events. Lisa tends to bring objects with the themes of love, social, everyday life, and beauty into her sculptures which are made with abstract shapes, and the mediums used in her work are various such as resin, stone, wood, cement, gypsum, metal plate and slurry. paper. Lisa is a female sculptor who is also a lecturer at Padang State University. Lisa is still able to survive with her abstract sculptures and become a resilient, creative, and active female sculptor in West Sumatra. Much can be learned andresearched from Lisa Widiarti's sculptures, especially abstract sculptures in terms of form and medium. It is hoped that research on Lisa Widiarti's abstract sculpture can be a reference so that there are opportunities for other researchers to research from a different scientific point of view.

The testing effect for visual materials depends on pre-existing knowledge

Remembering facilitates future remembering. This benefit of practicing by active retrieval, as compared to more passive re-learning, is known as the testing effect, and is one of the most robust findings in the memory literature. However, it has typically been assessed using verbal materials such as word-pairs, sentences, or educational texts. We here investigate if memory for visual materials equally benefits from retrieval-mediated learning. Based on cognitive and neuroscientific theories, we hypothesise that testing effects will be limited to meaningful visual images that can be related to pre-existing knowledge. In a series of four experiments, we systematically varied the type of material (meaningful object images vs non-meaningful “squiggle” shapes), the format of the test used to probe memory (a more visually driven alternative forced-choice test vs a remember/know recognition test), and the delay of the final test (immediate vs 1 week delay). We found that abstract shapes never showed a significant testing benefit, irrespective of test format, and even benefitted more from restudy than retrieval at longer delays, where testing effects are typically most prominent. Meaningful object images did benefit from testing, particularly at long delays, and with a test format probing the recollective component of recognition memory. Together, our results indicate that retrieval enhances memory for visual materials only when they have a unique, distinct meaning. This pattern of results is predicted by cognitive and neurobiologically motivated theories proposing that retrieval’s benefits emerge through spreading activation in pre-existing semantic networks, producing better integrated and more easily accessible memory traces.

Aachen-Heerlen annotated steel microstructure dataset

Studying steel microstructures yields important insights regarding its mechanical characteristics. Within steel, microstructures transform based on a multitude of factors including chemical composition, transformation temperatures, and cooling rates. Martensite-austenite (MA) islands in bainitic steel appear as blocky structures with abstract shapes that are difficult to identify and differentiate from other types of microstructures. In this regard, material science may benefit from machine learning models that are able to automatically and accurately detect these structures. However, the training process of the state-of-the-art machine learning models requires a large amount of high-quality data. In this dataset, we provide 1.705 scanning electron microscopy images along with a set of 8.909 expert-annotated polygons to describe the geometry of the MA islands that appear on the images. We envision that this dataset will be useful for material scientists to explore the relationship between the morphology of bainitic steel and mechanical characteristics. Moreover, computer vision researchers and practitioners may use this data for training state-of-the-art object segmentation models for abstract geometries such as MA islands.

Children’s Perception of Animacy: Social Attributions to Moving Figures

Adults describe abstract shapes moving in a goal-directed manner using animate terms. This study tested which variables affect school-aged children’s descriptions of moving geometrical shapes. Children aged 5 to 9 years were shown displays of interacting geometrical shapes and were asked to describe them. Across participants, instructions, number of moving figures, whether a figure caught another, and complexity of the scene were manipulated. Nine-year-olds used significantly more animate phrases than 5-year-olds. Furthermore, we found an Age by Condition interaction. Five-year-olds made significantly more animate statements in the animate condition, while 7-year-olds and 9-year-olds were less affected by instructions. Scene complexity increased children’s use of animate phrases. Number of agents present on the screen and whether a catch occurred did not impact children’s animate attributions. Our results support the hypothesis that children, like adults, are attuned to animacy cues and describe chasing agents in animate terms.

The role of gender and academic degree on preference for smooth curvature of abstract shapes

Background Preference for smooth contours occurs for a variety of visual stimuli. However, there are individual differences. Openness to experience, a trait associated with aesthetic appreciation, emotional sensitivity and abstract thinking, correlates with this preference. The evaluation of meaningless stimuli entails automatic associations influenced by knowledge, intellectual interests and individual experiences which are diverse. However, it is difficult to capture this variability in studies restricted to Undergraduate students in Psychology with a prevalence of female participants. Methods Here we examined preference for curvature with 160 undergraduate students in Psychology, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science, balanced for gender. Participants viewed abstract shapes varying for contour (angular vs. curved). The shapes presented variations in Vertices (10, 20, 30) and Concavity (30%, 40%, 50%) to increase complexity. Participants rated how much they liked each shape on a 0 (dislike) to 100 (like) scale. Furthermore, because students in pure Science disciplines present autistic-like traits as measured with the Autism Quotient (AQ), and there is evidence that individuals with autism respond positively to edgy abstract shapes, participants also completed the AQ. Results Overall participants preferred curved shapes to angular shapes. We confirmed past research showing that complexity played a key role, with simple shapes with less vertices (10 vertices) being preferred over shapes with larger number of vertices (20 and 30 vertices). Furthermore, simple shapes (10 vertices) were preferred more with more concavities (50%). Importantly, an interaction between academic degree and gender revealed that preference for smooth curvature was stronger for Psychology female participants. Science students scored higher than Psychology students on the AQ. Interestingly, multilevel analyses showed that the variability of AQ traits in the sample did not contribute to this interaction. The results are discussed in relation to theories of preference formation and individual differences.

No evidence that monkeys attribute mental states to animated shapes in the Heider–Simmel videos

Human Theory of Mind (ToM) is so automatic and pervasive that we spontaneously attribute mental states to animated abstract shapes, as evidenced by the classic Heider–Simmel findings. The extent to which this represents a fundamental characteristic of primate social cognition is debated. Prior research suggests that monkeys spontaneously predict behavior and attribute basic goals to conspecifics, but it remains unclear whether, like humans, they spontaneously ascribe mental states to animated shapes. Here, we address this question by analyzing rhesus monkeys’ viewing patterns of the classic Heider–Simmel animations. We hypothesized that if rhesus monkeys also spontaneously attribute mental states to animated shapes, then, like humans, they would have the longest fixation durations for theory of mind animations, medium duration fixation for goal-directed animations, and shortest fixations for animations with random motion. In contrast, if attributing mental states to animations is specific to humans and perhaps other apes, then we predict no differences in looking time across animation categories. Unlike humans, monkeys did not fixate longer on ToM videos. Critically, monkeys’ viewing patterns did not correlate with humans’ viewing patterns or intentionality ratings from previously published research. The only major difference in viewing patterns between animation categories tracked differences in low-level visual motion. Thus, monkeys do not view the classic Heider–Simmel animations like humans do and we found no evidence that they spontaneously attribute mental states to animated shapes.

Thalamic Functional Connectivity during Spatial Long-Term Memory and the Role of Sex

The thalamus has been implicated in many cognitive processes, including long-term memory. More specifically, the anterior (AT) and mediodorsal (MD) thalamic nuclei have been associated with long-term memory. Despite extensive mapping of the anatomical connections between these nuclei and other brain regions, little is known regarding their functional connectivity during long-term memory. The current study sought to determine which brain regions are functionally connected to AT and MD during spatial long-term memory and whether sex differences exist in the patterns of connectivity. During encoding, abstract shapes were presented to the left and right of fixation. During retrieval, shapes were presented at fixation, and participants made an “old-left” or “old-right” judgment. Activations functionally connected to AT and MD existed in regions with known anatomical connections to each nucleus as well as in a broader network of long-term memory regions. Sex differences were identified in a subset of these regions. A targeted region-of-interest analysis identified anti-correlated activity between MD and the hippocampus that was specific to females, which is consistent with findings in rodents. The current results suggest that AT and MD play key roles during spatial long-term memory and suggest that these functions may be sex specific.

Observing conflicting actions elicits conflict adaptation

A key prediction of ideomotor theories is that action perception relies on the same mechanisms as action planning. While this prediction has received support from studies investigating action perception in one-on-one situations, situations with multiple actors pose a challenge because in order to co-represent multiple observed actions, observers have to represent more actions in their motor system than they can physically execute. If representing multiple observed actions, like representing individual observed actions, recycles action planning processes, this should lead to response conflict by observation. In 5 experiments, we tested this hypothesis by investigating whether simply seeing two conflicting actions is sufficient to elicit response conflict and therefore adaptive control, in the same way as planning conflicting actions does. Experiments 1-3 provided meta-analytical evidence (N = 262) that seeing two conflicting gestures triggers a reverse congruency sequence effect on a subsequent, unrelated prime-probe task. Experiment 4 (N = 250) replicated this finding in a high-powered study. Finally, Experiment 5 (N = 253) revealed that the same effect was not present when using unfolding abstract shapes instead of moving hands. Together, these experiments show that not just planning but also seeing two conflicting actions elicits adaptive control and provide initial evidence that this is driven by motor conflict. These findings have important implications both for theories of action representation and research on cognitive control.