Studies to Know

Issues that effect Object Recognition

• Perspective:
• Palmer et al. (1981) -- recognition depends on perspective
• Objects recognized faster when presented in a canonical (typical) perspective rather than a non-canonical one
• Orientation: Biederman & Gerhardstein
• (1993)
• Ø Investigated
• the effect of orientation on object recognition using priming task
• Procedure
• ü Phase
• 1: Presented objects, and Ss name as quickly as possible
• ü Phase
• 2: Naming task. ½ were same as seen in phase 1, but presented at various
• degrees of rotation; ½ were different exemplars (e.g., different flashlight)

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