Table 3.
Correlations of rated visual complexity with affective ratings and computational measures of visual complexity.
| Measure | Experiment 2a | Experiments 2b | Experiment 4 |
Experiment 5a |
Experiment 5b |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naïve | bias-aware | difference (Z) | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | naïve | bias-aware | |||
| Ratings | |||||||||
| Visual complexity (Experiment 1) | 0.96∗∗∗ | 0.95∗∗∗ | 0.91∗∗∗ | 0.86∗∗∗ | 6.73∗∗∗ (↓) | 84∗∗∗ | 0.87∗∗∗ | 84∗∗∗ | 0.81∗∗∗ |
| Arousal | 0.55∗∗∗ | - | 0.27∗∗∗ | 0.16∗∗ | 6.26∗∗∗ (↓) | 0.45∗∗∗ | 46∗∗∗ | 0.50∗∗∗ | 40∗∗∗ |
| Valence | 0.29∗∗∗ | - | -0.24∗∗∗ | -20∗∗∗ | 2.34∗ (↓) | -0.22∗∗∗ | 0.29∗∗∗ | -0.35∗∗∗ | -0.35∗∗∗ |
| Computational visual complexity | |||||||||
| Edge density | 0.41∗∗∗ | 0.39∗∗∗ | 0.46∗∗∗ | 0.52∗∗∗ | 3.88∗∗∗ (↑) | 0.39∗∗∗ | 0.34∗∗∗ | 0.32∗∗∗ | 0.41∗∗∗ |
| Feature congestion | 0.47∗∗∗ | 46∗∗∗ | 0.53∗∗∗ | 0.59∗∗∗ | 3.86∗∗∗ (↑) | 0.44∗∗∗ | 40∗∗∗ | 0.33∗∗∗ | 46∗∗∗ |
| Subband entropy | 0.20∗∗∗ | 0.16∗∗∗ | 0.21∗∗∗ | 25∗∗∗ | 2.07* (↑) | 0.14∗∗ | 0.10∗ | 0.11∗ | 0.19∗∗∗ |
For Experiment 4, Z is the statistical test of the difference in dependent correlations (Steiger, 1980). †p < 0.10; ∗p < 0.05; ∗∗p < 0.01; ∗∗∗p < 0.001.