Annotated Bibliography: Human Body

The human brain is capable of perceiving and interpreting information or stimuli received through the sense organs (i.e., eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and skin) (Weiten, 1998). This ability to perceive and interpret stimulus allows the human being to make meaningful sense of the world and environment around them. However, even as the human being is able to perceive and interpret stimuli information through all sense organs, stimuli is most often or primarily interpreted using the visual (eyes) and auditory (ears) sense organs (Anderson, 2009). However, for the purpose of this paper, the visual information process will be examined.

Description draws on perception of the 5 senses to help convey a particular experience. Name the 5 senses.

Other practical uses that affect how human perception works are our experiences and the things we have seen while growing up. This is a very important part of how human perception works because the stuff we have experienced or seen everyday can affect the way we view things. Everyone views things differently because of things they have seen or been through in the past.

Professor Fisher, in 2004, said that color affects human beings in many ways, on both the conscious and subconscious levels, every day of our lives. As Professor Fisher stated, color affects us so many times a day, that often times we don’t even realized it’s happening. Think about all the things you have done today, that in someway involved color. For example, think of a stoplight and what each color on it means; without those colors we would not have the technology of a stoplight and therefore our everyday driving wouldn’t be quite as easy.

Cross-cultural differences in perception have been researched in psychology for many years. This type of research in perception enables psychologists to determine to what extent perception is controlled by the nervous system, and is thus universal, and to what extent perception is influenced by environmental factors and

The human muscular system is made up of over 600 connecting muscles. All of the muscles work together in sync to make your body move in inumerable different ways.

The article discussing “Skin as Art” followed artist Spencer Tunick, and his quest to photograph human bodies for art. Tunick is fascinated by the different shades of color that the humans body can produce and considers it to be the most beautiful thing (Mayell, 2002). The photographs that Tunick take can provoke different reactions or emotions to the viewers of the nakedness of several bodies in a single photograph. The models he uses for his photographs are of all ages, sizes, and colors and each model has a unique reason for posing nude for Tunick (Mayell, 2002). The article continues by explaining the biological function of skin and how color variations produce different colors according to adaptations to UV radiation levels. What was most interesting about the article was the use of modern day photography using the body as

The modern era is characterized by passion for the visual identity (visual display), which in the current socio-economic conditions becomes a commodity (Frost 2003: 54). Body representations play an important role in assessing the personal qualities

Bellatoni (1995) said that color influences one's choices, opinions, and emotional state. Colors in our environment can intensify feelings of euphoria or rage, calm or agitation. This information is very powerful for video maker. Each color affects us in their own unique way. Even the slightest variation of one color can have a huge influence on one’s behavior. Color can become a strong tool for filmmakers to make a situation look ironic, or absurd in a video. Audience rarely recognize that color is one of the elements used to manipulate them. This thoughtful quality may be magic in the hands of the director, or may not. To make it clearer, if we have to realize the powerful impact of a color or else we might abandon a large part of our control to chance. Color will not stop resonating, sending out signals, and irrespective of our goals (Bellantoni, 2005). The writer will show a few of colors and their meaning in Table 2.1.

6. What are monochromatic colors (2 points)? Find one example of any artwork in your textbook that uses monochromatic colors and explain how. List the artist, title and date (4 points).

Throughout the course of this semester, we have been learning about how and why we perceive our sensations the way that we do. We have learned about color and how vision is the most important out of our senses. If our eyes are the most valuable, what happens when one can’t perceive color the way most people do?

experiment, called Judgment of Silhouettes, where the made a booklet of different body types in

Humans associate colors with meaning and interpret them differently. These associations have been done in the extensive amount of marketing and psychology research. This short research analyses why color matters to the brand identity and product recognition concerning how consumers from different cultures perceive the color diversely.

The unique colour and texture of various species have a beautifying effect on the interior and exterior of our

Throughout Guy Deutscher’s “Through the Language Glass” the discoveries and the idea of color is discussed. This includes the theories of Geiger, he predicted that certain cultures were not as evolved and that a color sequence existed that said the order of colors as they come into language. Next was W.H.R. Rivers, Rivers predicted that certain cultures could not see colors as vividly as other cultures. The last being Berlin and Kay, who predicted that the differences in color was not because of biological factors, but rather environmental and language factors. It is true that color is not an arbitrary concept because of environmental and language factors because of the findings of Geiger, W.H.R. Rivers, and Brent Berlin and Paul Kay.