Report

Kippbilder

Author(s) / Creator(s)

Schönhammer, Rainer

Abstract / Description

This lexical essay discusses aspects of the phenomenology of so called "flipping pictures" (synonyms: ambiguous, reversible or multistable pictures) and lists research methods and findings. It highlights the readiness to perceive faces and bodies from sparse cues as a "flipping factor' (besides spatial perception under restricted conditions). At the same time it questions the habit to subsume all pictures with "hidden' faces or bodies (e.g. pictures of faces that contain in the manner of Arcimboldo depictions of human bodies/faces) to flipping or multistable phenomena. (Written in spring 2011 as the psychological part of a third level keyword for the "Glossary Bildphilosophie' — an expert-wiki of a group of German philosophers which will be open to public in autumn 2011 — it developed in part to a reflection which the author wishes to fix as a statement; thus this text will serve as a reference and an external link to the forthcoming philosopher-wiki to which it owes its production.)

Keyword(s)

Gesicht Visuelle Wahrnehmung Vexierbild visuelle Wahrnehmung Kippbild Gesichterwahrnehmung Vexierbild ambiguity multistability reversible pictures flipping pictures puzzle pictures face perception

Persistent Identifier

Date of first publication

2011

Citation

  • Author(s) / Creator(s)
    Schönhammer, Rainer
  • PsychArchives acquisition timestamp
    2022-11-17T11:02:05Z
  • Made available on
    2011-05-24
  • Made available on
    2016-07-14T06:10:02Z
  • Made available on
    2022-11-17T11:02:05Z
  • Date of first publication
    2011
  • Abstract / Description
    This lexical essay discusses aspects of the phenomenology of so called "flipping pictures" (synonyms: ambiguous, reversible or multistable pictures) and lists research methods and findings. It highlights the readiness to perceive faces and bodies from sparse cues as a "flipping factor' (besides spatial perception under restricted conditions). At the same time it questions the habit to subsume all pictures with "hidden' faces or bodies (e.g. pictures of faces that contain in the manner of Arcimboldo depictions of human bodies/faces) to flipping or multistable phenomena. (Written in spring 2011 as the psychological part of a third level keyword for the "Glossary Bildphilosophie' — an expert-wiki of a group of German philosophers which will be open to public in autumn 2011 — it developed in part to a reflection which the author wishes to fix as a statement; thus this text will serve as a reference and an external link to the forthcoming philosopher-wiki to which it owes its production.)
    en
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-psydok-27561
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11780/3666
  • Persistent Identifier
    https://doi.org/10.23668/psycharchives.8920
  • Language of content
    deu
  • Keyword(s)
    Gesicht
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Visuelle Wahrnehmung
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Vexierbild
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    visuelle Wahrnehmung
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Kippbild
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Gesichterwahrnehmung
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    Vexierbild
    de
  • Keyword(s)
    ambiguity
    en
  • Keyword(s)
    multistability
    en
  • Keyword(s)
    reversible pictures
    en
  • Keyword(s)
    flipping pictures
    en
  • Keyword(s)
    puzzle pictures
    en
  • Keyword(s)
    face perception
    en
  • Dewey Decimal Classification number(s)
    150
  • Title
    Kippbilder
    de
  • DRO type
    report
  • Visible tag(s)
    PsyDok