PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION AS A BASIS OF DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE TYPES OF TEXTS // BSU bulletin. Philosophy. - 2017. №3. Филология. Philology. - С. 52-57.

PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY OF VISUAL PERCEPTION AS A BASIS OF DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE TYPES OF TEXTS

DOI: 10.18101/1994-0866-2017-3-52-57 UDK: 811: 159.91

The article considers the ways the main material substances — time and space — are percepted visually. The examples in the Russian and English languages help to prove that psychophysiological peculiarities of visual perception underlie two different types of text — descriptive and narrative. We have attempted to explain, that the objects of our world percepted by central type of viosion are projected into descriptive type of text; while the motion, as well as any kind of change, percepted by peripheral type of vision is transmitted by narrative text. As a result, it is concluded that psychophysiolog- ical peculiarities of visual perception can be considered as one of the principles for veri- fying texts of the ascertaining type.

descriptive text; narrative text; space; motion; psychophysiology; visual ana- lyzer; central vision / field; peripheral vision / field.