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This research aims to investigate relation between for mative expression and observer's cognitive characteristics in visual perception. Words which expresses characteristics of formed object were collected from literature and narrowed down by a questionnaire. Some kinds of patterns were evaluated by using those words. Cognitive structures in visual perception of pattern design were classified into 5 types, and impression of each type to a pattern was evaluated. Result of the experiment was analyzed by quantitative analysis model-1 .The terms with strong influence on each type of cognitive structure were clarified As a result, the information for pattern design matched to observer's cognitive characteristics was extracted.