Search for dissertations about: "visual imagery"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words visual imagery.
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1. What Literature Can Make Us See : Poetry, Intermediality, Mental Imagery
Abstract : In this thesis I investigate what kind of mental imagery ekphrastic and pictorial poetry can evoke, how time is represented in this kind of poetry, and how readers experience the temporality it represents. Ekphrasis (a verbal representation of a static, visual, iconic representation) and pictorialism (a phenomenon that occurs when the reality of the fictive world, either psychological or physical, in the text is represented as image) are intermedial concepts: in various ways and to various degrees, ekphrastic and pictorial texts refer to and represent static, visual, iconic media such as painting, photography and sculpture. READ MORE
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2. Political posters in Ethiopia and Mozambique : visual imagery in a revolutionary context
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3. Olfactory Cognition : The Case of Olfactory Imagery
Abstract : The capacity to form olfactory images has received less attention than the formation of visual and auditory images. The evidence in favor of such ability is also inconsistent. This thesis explored some of the characteristics of olfactory imagery through three empirical studies. READ MORE
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4. Towards Robust Visual Localization in Challenging Conditions
Abstract : Visual localization is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with a multitude of applications in robotics, augmented reality and structure-from-motion. The basic problem is to, based on one or more images, figure out the position and orientation of the camera which captured these images relative to some model of the environment. READ MORE
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5. Auditory and Olfactory Abilities in Blind and Sighted Individuals : More Similarities than Differences
Abstract : Blind individuals face various challenges in everyday life because of the lack of visual input. However, since they need to rely on the non-visual senses for everyday tasks, for instance, when navigating the environment, the question has been raised as to whether perceptual and cognitive abilities in these senses may be enhanced. READ MORE