“Visual Zen art: aesthetic cognitive dissonance in Japanese dry stone garden measured in visual PageRank”

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    Visual Zen art: aesthetic cognitive dissonance in Japanese dry stone garden measured in visual PageRank

Session/Category Title:   Explorations in Art and Design


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    Using eyetracker to measure visual PageRanks of landscape garden objects (mainly rocks_ in one of the most famous Japanese dry-stone Zen gardens and discover the surprising visual effect hidden in this garden. The effect was totally unknown 560 years ago. Today it is called “cognitive dissonance”

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