title: Object recognition under sequential viewing conditions: evidence for viewpoint-specific recognition procedures.
abstract: In many computational approaches to vision it has been emphasised that object recognition involves the encoding of view-independent descriptions prior to matching to a stored object model, thus enabling objects to be identified across different retinal projections. In contrast, neurophysiological studies suggest that image descriptions are matched to less abstract, view-specific representations, resulting in more efficient access to stored object knowledge for objects presented from a view similar to a stored viewpoint. Evidence favouring a primary role for view-specific object descriptions in object recognition is reported. In a series of experiments employing line drawings of familiar objects, the effects of depth rotation upon the efficiency of object recognition were investigated. Subjects were required to identify an object from a sequence of very briefly presented pictures. The results suggested that object recognition is based upon the matching of image descriptions to view-specific stored representations, and that priming effects under sequential viewing conditions are strongly influenced by the visual similarity of different views of objects.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Science Research Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.forename: G W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Humphreys
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Watson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D011340:Problem Solving; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time