On the left side of the painting are the hyacinths, two small colorful bunches of flowers, one blue and the other red. ... The bright yellow flowers flow from right to left, naturally drawing the viewer's eye 1 toward the smaller flowers on the left, thus creating asymmetrical balance. ... For example, the yellow flowers are concentrated in a small area that stretches all the way across the painting; therefore, instead of concentrating the brightest color in one area, Nolde has arranged the flowers in a way that the yellow flowers first catch one's attention and then draws the ...
As an example a large red object in a London street scene might be 'bound' as a bus, although another individual might favor another interpretation. ... Most recently [Goldfarb & Triesman 2010] she has considered the effects of incongruent visual cues to show that effects such as having the word 'blue' colored in red will slow perception and may also lead to, firstly, complete rejection or, less likely correction of the reported to avoid the incongruent. ... That seems natural enough given the physical details of the eye. ... Treisman and her colleagues debated th...