I really like this quote from C.M. Barry author of Visual intelligence: Perception, image, and manipulation in visual communication. She states "Yet what our eyes register is not a picture of reality as it is. Rather our brains combine information from our eyes with data from our other senses, synthesize it, and draw on our past experience to give us a workable image of our world." (p. 14)
We take in information through our senses, refer to our prior knowledge structures, and synthesize the data, which inevitably creates a meaningful, image experience. Humans need these symbols to relate to and to find there own meaning from. Barry (1997) reveals that people can be influenced by what they see, whether it is real or fake, simply because of the combination of factors that work together while viewing the image or images. Therefore, it is not whether or not an image can influence a viewer, but how great the influence depends on what exactly is being synthesized.
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