#conceptual processing

[awoefulstudent]

Hello everyone!

My name is Amina and I am a BSc Psychology with Honours student at the University of Hertfordshire. I am also the principal researcher of a study that aims to investigate whether judging category relatedness within semantic memory can be influenced by the level of typicality the items have alongside whether high versus low autistic traits have any effect on the performance of different types of processing.

I am currently taking volunteers for this online study. Any adults aged 18 to 65 can volunteer and you do not need an official Autism diagnosis to take part.

In the study, you will be given an item/ definition/ scenario at the top of your screen and will have to decide which of two following words match best to that using your keyboard. After that is completed you will be given the RAADS-14 questionnaire to complete.

It will take roughly 15 minutes to complete. However, a maximum of 30 minutes is given for the entire study to be completed including the information sheet, consent form, debrief sheet, and the “breaks” given (which are just for momentarily resting your eyes and hands), otherwise I cannot use your data. Please note that this study cannot be completed on a mobile phone or tablet, it must be done on a computer/laptop as the keyboard is required for the study’s completion.

You can completed this study at anytime until 23:59 GMT on Friday 1st of March here:

https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/0D915D45-8D85-44F9-9B63-376AF0C70573

This study has been approved by the Ethics Committee at the University of Hertfordshire and is also being conducted under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Shipp.

Your participation is very important for this study and is very much appreciated.

Thank you for your time!

Many Thanks

Amina

EDIT: Study is now no longer taking participants!!! Thank you all who took part and spread the word of my study, it definitely means a lot to me 💟

#autistic traits #conceptual processing #typicality #processing #mental processing #autism spectrum disorder #psychology study #psychology research #undergraduate #student dissertation

[shepscapades]

Souls in the Sand: Concept Art

As I’ve mentioned here and there, I’ve spent the last two years developing an original story inspired by a small Origins+Empires server a few friends and I started planning. The more I developed plans for my empire to be a sprawling overgrown cityscape of ruins and stone framework inspired by the nether, the more I built up this backstory for the character I wanted to play, a small deerfolk boy named Esra. From there, and over months of working and reworking the story and its characters, I’m proud to say I’m coming up on a 100 piece gallery for my Masters Exhibition to display this story in the form of a song-inspired comic, titled: Souls in the Sand.

Over the next month and beyond the date of my exhibition in April, I wanted to start sharing my work here! I thought it would be fitting to first share all of the concept work I did for the characters last semester as I took each character from their old lineup and reworked them from scratch to see if there were any designs I could make more unique or appropriate for the story. This process consisted of four stages: silhouettes, full-body mock-ups, face and head shapes/designs, and experimenting with the final characters’ designs with a set of unique expressions that best fit their personalities and narrative role.

Since each character was reworked separately, the “new” concept lineup is a little disjointed (and some of the characters’ faces actually ended up different from their full-body designs), but I thought it would be fun to line them up to compare the overall cast to their old designs. With each character(s) I post the concept process for, I may share little bits of the work I’m doing or talk a little about their narrative roles as I go, but for now, have Esra!

I know I don’t post original work here often, but I wanted to share parts of this journey with you guys because it’s been very meaningful to me! And I hope all of the work I’ve been doing may at the very least serve as a bit of inspiration or encouragement for us to keep making silly minecraft stories, to keep drawing the characters we love, and to keep being creative in whatever way is meaningful! <3

#original artwork #original character #character design #concept art #Shep’s oc #Souls in the Sand #sits #art escapades #minecraft original story #esra #alo #deerfolk #boarfolk #piglin #minecraft oc #oc #original characters #conceptualization #process art #rue #wren #gale #lucian #perinnet #harlow #original story #illustration #personal art #drawings #original art

[stil-lindigo]

family resemblance.

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prints

wolf's story (left)

ash's story (right)

#love and war #who says murder cant be a productive mother daughter bonding activity #just kidding #they dont have that sort of relationship #(for any newcomers - wolf is one of ash's mothers. in a sort of conceptual way. theyre not actually genetically related.) #ive missed doing rendered illustrations #comics are my true love but i cant lie. the shading process is therapeutic #also #ash ends up taller being than both her mothers when she grows up #important information #once again thank you for indulging my oc brainrot #i appreciate it #oc art #hearteaters #stillindigo art

[icewindandboringhorror]

I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud.. #but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

[infernal-lamb]

honestly speaking of, I do genuinely love the official + semi-official characterizations of the Lamb in official/promotional art and collaborations w/other games (monster road trip for ex) because they have no hesitation in showing “hey. The lamb? Yeah that little dude commits absolute heinous abuses of power and has no qualms about it while also being very weird and off-putting in nature. And You Will Love Them” and I’m just like damn ok. I guess I will love them! :-) ❤️

#I’ve mentioned it before that I do interpret the Lamb as somewhat morally complex bc of the system they live in #and what compromises you make to survive #and what the process of apotheosis does to the mind and the preception of the Self. when an individual becomes conceptual rather than #material. but also: this is just a little sheep game. I’m just insane unfortunately #all this to say I love that little freak. What the fuck is wrong with them #though of course to be considerate of their context the lamb IS the last of a species. fucked up!

[brainless-tin-box]

more knight au doodles

(i know jamie is canonically proficient in horseriding i forgor :sob:)

#doctor who #classic who #doctor who fanart #dw knight au #jamie mccrimmon #zoe heriot #the horses in the first image i drew over photos and you can very much tell #especially in comparison to the pencil sketch #why are its legs like that? who knows dude #also will cybermen turn up in the story itself? ive no idea man #my process for thinking up a story is Try Everything and figure out what i like best #edgars art #these are pretty low quality sorry i intend to do some more proper pieces hopefully soon!! #im starting art school in a few days so im hoping thatll get me in The Zone for drawing more conceptual pieces #assuming ill have the time HDFGHD

[7cfc00]

hello! im a beginner artist and i recently found your blog! ive found inspiration in your art (if that's okay) and i really like your shading style but cant really replicate it in a way i like.. (hopefully this isnt inappropriate to admit) do you mind doing a brief tutorial? many thanks! your art is very lovely

HIII sorry it took so long to respond i was kinda busy... but THANKS! heres some process pics and also a long winded rant about art... hope its helpful

i used this piece cus its one of my recent artworks that i did a lot more rendering for... usually its a bit more condensed than this, but yeah. gradients are. poggers

ive only recently gotten comfortable w this "artstyle" so i'm not exactly the. authority here. but yeah! just some notes and thoughts... wish you all the best on your journey soldier. firm handshake.

#also thanks for giving me a reason to ramble about art!! im such a nerd for like. the creative process. and the role of art. #cuz i do fine arts in school so i come from a perspective thats more conceptual almost? more cognizant of art in relation to culture/time #and this type of fandom art for me is more of an outlet and a challenge at communicating specific ideas. or experimenting with style #its also about the recognition and impact on people and likes but uhhhhh heh heh.... #im the type of person who thinks modern art is cool as balls and more people should take the time #to appreciate art because it teaches patience and understanding and expands your worldview #but that is a COMPLETE sidetrack #drop an ask if you have more questions about art i fucking love talking #if its not very relevant to the stuff on this blog then ask it on my sideblog 8cfc00. #dont wanna clog up peoples dashes with my hot takes

[agentravensong]

was just reading about the history of physics for my postmodern literature class (don't ask), and the first chapter of this book called "the quantum moment" talks about how issac newton's work led to a fundamental shift in how most people of his time saw and related to the world, allowing them to understand it as an ordered system where everything that happens is caused by forces that obey unified and consistent laws, with those underlying laws being something people could learn and grasp rather than chalking it up to the world working in "mysterious ways"

and my rotted, poisoned brain went, oh. that's why they gave rosencrantz those newton moments in the movie version of r&g are dead*. to coincide with his and guil's dawning realization that they live in a world where fate is (seemingly) fixed, and their attempts to figure out their world's rules and limits.

i could throw screenshots from the script of the play here to draw the comparison, from any of guil's monologues where he philosophizes and tries to make sense of the situation/setting they've found themselves in, but i need to be getting to bed. y'all get it though, right?

*while the apple falling on ros's end is arguably the only direct newton moment, i'm also lumping in some of his inventions, because of this bit from the same chapter of the book:

#rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead #ragad #for the record this book was published in 2014 and goes on to discuss how quantum mechanics fucked up the newtonian understanding of things #and had its own huge cultural impact on how people conceptualize the universe #i love reading about shit like this at 11 at night. i wouldn't have the brain sparks that lead to posts like this otherwise #i love being normal about the way i process media. i'm so normal you guys. so normal :)

[moe-broey]

I need like. A Don't Make Me Tap The Sign about Alfonse Fire Emblem specifically about his character and how he's perceived sometimes. Like Book 7 Chapter 12 he's just like that. He's always been like that.

I feel like I've def said it more eloquently before probably in Book 5 (regarding Reginn and Fáfnir), where like. He Will try for and favor a peaceful solution, but if it's clear there's no way out without violence and killing the threat/adversary. He won't hesitate. He won't falter. Crit line literally references this actually, "Above all, the mission".

Like I feel like the difference between Alfonse just doing Alfonse things (most recent chapter Seidr having to kill Kvasir, no way out of it -- plus also even considering killing Seidr herself, if that were to end Gullveig) and the Letizia moment was like. The Letizia moment was a BOLD gambit he played, which is WHY it was so shocking in the story and as an audience member, and why I think it left such a deep impression. Still very in character for him and the way he thinks/problem solves on the fly, carefully evaluating the situation and what would be the best move with the highest rate of success. (THAT LAST BIT ACTUALLY........ he'll do this even with low rates of success, out of sheer stubbornness as well. Which is why I still stand by him being rash at times, a LOT of his rashness is disguised as "calculated risks" and he just has the willpower to pull it off. The worst-best type of guy to me LMFAO)

Going back a bit though, the Letizia moment also stands out as an example of how far Alfonse is willing to go to win, especially if his back is pushed against the wall. It gives you a FASCINATING glimpse into his character and into his mind. A lot of times Lif would be an enigma to me, beyond the basics, character wise. Like yeah I guess that would fuck up a guy. But his methods (working and making contracts with gods when especially as Alfonse he knows better than that??) would be inscrutable to me. But everything absolutely finally clicked when Alfonse made that gambit, playing to Letizia's personality and whatever preconceived notions she may have, that maybe Alfonse could find a weak spot in and take advantage of. Lif is doing the exact same thing. His judgement is maybe a little worse for wear on account of, well *gestures vaguely to all of him* but he's still very much doing The Same Thing.

LIKE. I'm def straying from my point which is. Alfonse isn't shy about having to resort to violence. It Is a resort. But if it has to be done, it will be done. Any damage control (such as Sharena's feelings -- she has CLEARLY been extremely upset these past chapters) can be resolved later. (This.... is also fascinating to me..... bc it's always been clear to me his loved ones are the people who ground him, who stop him from losing himself, from becoming cruel in his practicality and tendency for detachment. There Is his morality as well -- but his loved ones are a huge part in what keeps him kind.)

I guess what I'm really trying to say is. Hit me up next time Alfonse is playing 4D chess with the enemy or throwing himself in a ditch on purpose just to indulge his baby sister's current pet project. THOSE feel like standout examples of Alfonse Off The Shits (but still completely in character for him tbh), while like. The rest is just par for the course for him. Just another (especially traumatizing) Tuesday.

#i'm. vaguing and i am so sorry for commiting the sin of vaguing. #but i do want to make it clear i'm not actually mad or judgy that would be silly #but like that aspect of alfonse specifically is what draws me in so completely... #it's a fascinating study and also. feels like one extreme opposite to my own. #and it's actually really nice to have it be an extreme bc it's easy to pick out what tracks where it frays #and where it crosses a line and becomes hurtful and/or harmful for the parties involved (including the self) #like... i absolutely use both alfonse and sharena as autistic proxys. to help me conceptualize/recontextualize/process info. #things that don't come naturally to me or things that feel beyond me and out of my grasp. #which is to say alfonse's practicality is actually something that is sooooo personal to me LMFAOOO #which is why. i've got to tap the sign. he has ALWAYS been like this it is a HUGE CORE PART OF HIM‼️‼️‼️‼️ #his greatest strength his biggest flaw. ect. the reason why i'm constantly chewing on his arm. #WHATEVER..... #fe alfonse #again i do want to emphasize i'm not mad or judgy LMFAOO i'm just devastatingly autistic about him. #if anything the autism was just. aggro'd. you know how it is.

[awoefulstudent]

Hello everyone!

I currently have a study for my psychology undergraduate degree. The study takes about 15 minutes to complete.

Here's a brief description:

Judging category relatedness within semantic memory can be influenced by the level of typicality the items have and autistic traits. The purpose of this study is to understand whether performance on multiple categorization tasks is affected by autistic traits. You don't need a diagnosis to take part. The only requirement is to be in the age range 18 to 65.

Do keep in mind this study cannot be completed on mobile phones, it must be done on a computer/laptop as the keyboard is required for completion. Also, the study has built in breaks but the maximum amount of time you can spend on this is 30 minutes and if you exceed this time I won’t be able to use your results.

#psychology #psychology research #conceptual processing #autistic traits #student #university #dissertation #student dissertation #study #experiment #college #college student #college studies #university student

[izzyspussy]

i think a lot of people have never been in a truly desperate situation but think they have, and this causes them to pass really harsh judgment on people who made bad choices when either irrational or having no good choices to pick instead, and i really wish people could get some fucking self-perception and work on their compassion skills and not fucking do that as much anymore

#jack facts #people be banging on about empathy this empathy that #and like sure maybe people have a measurable capacity for it but i can tell you what #that sure as fuck don't mean any fucking one of them ever bothers to make use of it when it matters lol #and i mean on the other hand it's hard to conceptualize how you would feel going through something you've never experienced before #i just wish people would be AWARE of the fact they don't know! #or like that there's a difference between ''i can't afford anything but instant ramen'' and ''i can't get any food or water'' #or a difference between being freaked out by spiders and having clinical arachnophobia #or a difference between ''my loved one is sick and i'm really worried about them'' and ''my loved one is dying in front of me'' #etc etc etc etc etc #anyway the longer i live the more i'm convinced that empathy is a garbage concept #and actually a more reliable way to act with true compassion is through at least some capacity for relative objectivity #the ability to say ''i don't know how that feels and i cannot understand it through comparison'' and to be able AND WILLING #to take people's self reports on their feelings thought processes or lackthereof in good faith and with sympathy #and also the ability to acknowledge that doing a bad thing for good reasons does not negate the bad thing being bad #but also should and does change what consequences are appropriate and/or most effective #and also like............... things people do in desperation or other irrational states do not represent Who They Are As A Person #or what it's like to hang out with them in a day to day situation #another thing i keep getting more and more aware of is like. if y'all can't even handle an irrational or impulsive choice that does harm #done by an otherwise ''good'' person under short term desperate situations #that they then do their best to reduce the harm of after the situation is over #i can not even imagine how absolutely unforgiving you must be of anyone who has delusions #and i mean real delusions and real psychosis not the hyperbolic babytalk version lol #like i don't think most of you even know what the fuck a delusion even is the way you act about things as simple & straightforward as like #fear. hunger. pain. #absolutely fucking exhausting

[745voiceofthepeople]

Been thinking and writing (drafts) about the Kryptonian Azula Au/endgame Azutara that @waterfire1848 and I were briefly discussing.

I feel that the following (incorrect) quote perfectly encapsulates the planned story idea that I have. Before Azula’s (planned) redemption arc in the story anyway. Let me know if anyone has any opinions!

Admittedly, I got this idea from watching Smallville while scrolling through the ATLA/Azula/Azutara corner of tumblr.

Scene: Aang and Katara were fighting Azula and Zuko in the crystal catacombs beneath the Earth Kingdom palace.

Aang tried to persuade Azula to surrender. Wanting to resolve Azula’s usurpation of the Earth Kingdom as peacefully as he could attempt to. While Katara was torn between wanting to drown Azula in a tidal wave, and wanting to wipe that insufferable smirk off her face. Though Katara would deny to her dying breath that her preferred method would be to kiss it off.

Aang: The fight is over Azula, even now King Keui is being freed from imprisonment. Your coup is at an end.

Azula: What a fool you are… I’m a god! How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? There is no escape, no recall or intervention can work in this place. Come, lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy.

#azutara #Kryptonian Azula Au #in process of writing and conceptualizing #daughter of Zod #avatar incorrect quotes #source: Dagoth Ur #self promotional post

[tanadrin]

the SHWEP host does that really annoying thing where he tries to give ancient philosophers credit for anticipating modern developments, like comparing the Stoic idea of sympatheia to quantum entanglement, and like... okay, even if you have the qualitative understanding of quantum entanglement correct (which I doubt; what little of quantum entanglement and I understand and less of stoicism makes them sound like very different ideas), even a passing similarity can’t paper over the fact that there’s a strict mathematical formalism underlying the model of any quantum behavior, which is entirely absent from ancient philosophical ideas like stoicism

and i think--especially if you are an academic who studies philosophy and doesn’t actually know that much about or have much direct exposure to physics--it’s easy for a layman to make the mistake of assuming that the big idea behind something like quantum physics is the important part, and the formalism is, like, an ancillary set of details you need to figure out the answer only to specific technical questions.

now, i’m just a small town english major, but from where i’m sitting it looks to me like important part, the thing that makes physics, well, physics, the whole point of working within that system of knowledge as opposed to another one, is the mathematical formalism; the mathematical formalism, in other words, is the big idea, and the qualitative description is an attempt (frequently flawed) to simplify and analogize that formalism until you can convey at least something approaching its meaning to people who lack the training to engage with the formalism directly. attempting to engage with the ideas behind quantum mechanics without doing anything involving the mathematical formalism is just... not physics. it’s not even close. so unless and until they find a papyrus in some archeological site in egypt with an ancient greek version of the hamiltonian of an electron scrawled on the back, i’m gonna say the ancients did not in fact anticipate any of the significant developments of 20th century physics

#the problem with reading qualitative descriptions of physics #and thinking that means you really understand physics #is that the qualitative descriptions are not actually very good! #partly this is because trying to convert a formalism into a non-formal #analagous description #is going to be very lossy #just as an inherent part of the process #but also because reporting on scientific topics is in the popular press is just... bad #and because the reporting is so bad #and losing the formalism means losing all actual conceptual precision #and there are many different ways to try to convey a qualitative understanding of these difficult technical subjects #you can pattern match almost *anything* to a bad description of quantum mechanics #hence the proliferation of quantum woo

[passiveslthrn]

China

Process. I’m really relaxing with drawing environment arts🤤

#artists on tumblr #art blog #concept art #conceptual #environment #environment art #china #process #art tumblr #artwork

[catilinas]

your haunted photos are so beautiful. out of curiosity, are they purposefully double exposed, or are they just random creations?

wah thank you! they are intentional but the level of intent / planning beyond Ooh I Could Do A Double Exposure really varies. the first time i tried it i exposed the whole roll then wound it back and did it again, so the matchup between the two sets Was almost entirely random. it was only Not random in that a lot of the shots were me thinking like. well if i take a picture of a framing device then maybe something will end up inside the framing device. and sometimes it worked and sometimes it really did not! but now i take them by preventing the camera from winding on between shots so i am consciously choosing two images to superimpose… but also often it’s like. oh that’s a cool texture i hope whatever i decide to take a picture of next goes well with it. or the framing devices again. but then also with things like the mirror dimension ones that is extremely intentional. like i’m not accidentally taking a photo upside down. how would that even happen!

#i have this evil poem about the thought processes behind taking one million pictures of empty doors and windows hoping the future will #appear through them but alas while that method of double exposing is conceptually infinitely superior #it is also way easier to fuck up And you have to commit to it for the whole roll and. i can’t be bothered to do that :/ #double exposure #beeps

[aldoodles]

Also any tips for wannabe artists in general and for finding their style?

Sure! My tips for both improving in art and in finding your style are actually the same: draw what you love. Draw it over and over again, ad nauseam. Find (or make) a character you're obsessed with, and draw them doing random things on any scrap of paper you can find.

Practice really does make improvement!

That being said, I used to wonder about how to find and keep a consistent style all the time, and if someone had been like "lol just draw :o)!! " to me I would've found it incredibly unhelpful, so I’ll go a little more into why I think that drawing frequently will help.

I think "art style" in drawing comes from any deviations we make from life-- whether these deviations are by way of intentional artistic decision-making or by way of errors lol. The best news about this is that what you draw will always look like you drew it, which lends an intrinsic style all its own.

When I get stressed about "consistency" in my art style, I always think back to this tweet:

No matter what we draw, our artistic fingerprints will always remain.

As you draw (ideally frequently and without shame,) you'll notice things about your work that you like and things that you want to improve. Lean into what you like–that's what gives your work a stylized feel to it– and experiment with each new drawing! Playing around is the best way to make breakthroughs and improve!

#al chatters #ask #art advice #i hope this made sense! i just love art sm #i get a little hippie and 'deep' about things sometimes because i was a conceptual and process based sculptor in college lol #i seriously draw like. constantly. 99% of my drawings are never shown to anyone. I draw on EVERyTHING haha