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Perception & psychophysics

Publication date: 1998-07-01
Volume: 60 Pages: 900 - 907
Publisher: Psychonomic soc inc

Author:

Boutsen, L
Lamberts, K ; Verfaillie, Karl

Keywords:

generic viewpoint assumption, 3-dimensional objects, orientation-dependence, representation, specificity, invariance, perception, constancy, routes, Social Sciences, Psychology, Psychology, Experimental, GENERIC VIEWPOINT ASSUMPTION, 3-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS, ORIENTATION-DEPENDENCE, REPRESENTATION, SPECIFICITY, INVARIANCE, PERCEPTION, CONSTANCY, ROUTES, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Rotation, 1701 Psychology, 1702 Cognitive Sciences, Experimental Psychology, 5202 Biological psychology, 5204 Cognitive and computational psychology

Abstract:

The present study examines the effect of the goodness of view on the minimal exposure time required to recognize depth-rotated objects. In a previous study, Verfaillie and Boutsen (1995) derived scales of goodness of view, using a new corpus of images of depth-rotated objects. In the present experiment, a subset of this corpus (five views of 56 objects) is used to determine the recognition expo sure time for each view, by increasing exposure time across successive presentations until the object is recognized. The results indicate that, for two thirds of the objects, good views are recognized more frequently and have lower recognition exposure times than bad views.