This visual image is a good example of the Top-Down Visual Processing. The goal of the image is to drive the viewer's attention to the main picture of a young girl looking away. However, it has a cognitive goal as well, which is understanding that is expressed in the image. In the visual queries article, it is stated that " there is a constant linking and re-linking of different visual information with different nonvisual information" (pg.12). If you look from far away, the viewer will be able to see that the image also shows an old woman looking to the left and with long hair. The eye of the "old lady" visual communication is where the ear of the younger woman is, the nose of the old lady is where the younger girl's chin is, the old lady's mouth is where the younger girl's chocker is and the old lady's chin is the rest of the throat stucture from the younger girl's image. So the goal of this image is to portray two images in one visual image to make the viewer constantly link and relink between actions and cognitions (looping). This picture comes from
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