title: Object recognition: view-specificity and motion-specificity.
abstract: This paper describes an experiment to distinguish between two theories of human visual object recognition. According to the view-specificity hypothesis, object recognition is based on particular learned views, whereas the motion-specificity hypothesis states that object recognition depends on particular directed view-sequences. Both hypotheses imply a degree of view-bias (i.e. recognition of a given object is associated with a small number of views). Whereas the view-specificity hypothesis attributes this view-bias to a preference for particular views, the motion-specificity hypothesis attributes view-bias to a preference for particular directed view-sequences. Results presented here suggest that recognition of 3D rotating objects involves significant view-bias. This view-bias appears to be associated with an underlying bias for particular directed view-sequences, and not for particular views.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Sheffield University, UK. j.v.stone@sheffieldac.uk
authors.forename: J V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Stone
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008568:Memory; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011601:Psychophysics; D012399:Rotation