Marc Berman
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So that's fine.
That's interesting.
Then we asked this other question, which was, okay...
If nature images are sort of easier to process, maybe that might also mean that they're less memorable.
And your listeners might be thinking, okay, but being less memorable sounds bad.
But we think it might be good if something is not memorable, it might mean that your brain has not exerted a lot of energy to process it.
So what we wonder, too, is are nature images less memorable than urban images?
So we did an experiment where we show people hundreds of images that vary in how natural or urban they are.
And you see these images, and you basically have to respond if you see an image that's repeated, which is a measure of sort of memory.
And it turns out that people do not remember the nature images as well.
They remember the urban stuff better, which is also kind of consistent.
And to bring these things together a bit, we find statistically that part of the reason why nature images are more forgettable is because they're more compressible.
Yes, and I think I would agree with you.
It is interesting, though, and I can't remember all the details.
I know we've run grayscale entropy measurements on these images, and that, if I remember correctly, doesn't show as big of a difference as we would think.
Now, I don't know why that is.
Maybe we have to do something actually with the color, you know, entropy or maybe the different color channels.
But yes, Sean, it is.
I agree with your conjecture there.
Actually, when I was reading your book, The Big Picture, you have a figure in there.
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