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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Nurs Health. 2013 Mar 26;36(4):330–348. doi: 10.1002/nur.21544

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The Integrated Representational and Behavioral Framework (the framework) with minor revisions from the original version (Severtson & Vatovec, 2012) to illustrate the theoretical concepts used in this study. Pinker’sFactors are proposed to explain what people see from the visual stimuli detected by the retina. Properties of features are proposed to explain the meaning (beliefs and emotion) derived from what is seen. Top-down and bottom-up information processing were not measured in this study thus depicted with dotted lines. Top-down and bottom-up information processing are important concepts that explain how images influence cognitive and emotional representations. Information processing is influenced by personal characteristics of the viewer.