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Information visualization is central to how humans communicate. Designers produce visualizations to represent information about the world, and observers construct interpretations based on the visual input as well as their heuristics, biases, prior knowledge, and beliefs. Several layers of processing go into the design and interpretation of visualizations. This review focuses on processes that observers use for interpretation: perceiving visual features and their interrelations, mapping those visual features onto the concepts they represent, and comprehending information about the world based on observations from visualizations. Observers are more effective at interpreting visualizations when the design is well-aligned with the way their perceptual and cognitive systems naturally construct interpretations. By understanding how these systems work, it is possible to design visualizations that play to their strengths and thereby facilitate visual communication.
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The Annual Review of Vision Science reviews progress in the visual sciences, a cross-cutting set of disciplines which intersect psychology, neuroscience, computer science, cell biology and genetics, and clinical medicine. The journal covers a broad range of topics and techniques, including optics, retina, central visual processing, visual perception, eye movements, visual development, vision models, computer vision, and the mechanisms of visual disease, dysfunction, and sight restoration. The study of vision is central to progress in many areas of science, and this new journal will explore and expose the connections that link it to biology, behavior, computation, engineering, and medicine.
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