Recognition-by-Components

Irving Biederman; Edward A Wasserman

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334654.003.0012

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Recognition-by-Components

Irving Biederman and Edward A Wasserman

How Animals See the World

Oxford University Press

03/14/2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334654.003.0012

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Abstract

This chapter reviews research that has pursued the comparative psychology of visual object perception by investigating the applicability to pigeons of Biederman's theory of object recognition: recognition-by-components. Pigeons show strong control of the individual components of multipart objects, they are highly sensitive to the spatial organization of an object's several parts, they show some degree of rotational invariance while simultaneously attending to view-specific features of shape stimuli, and they not only learn about shape, but also encode information about such surface properties as color, brightness, and shading.

object recognition

shading

brightness

comparative psychology

color

visual object perception

pigeons

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Title: Subtitle: Recognition-by-Components
Creators: Irving Biederman
Edward A Wasserman
Resource Type: Book chapter
Publication Details: How Animals See the World
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334654.003.0012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Date published: 03/14/2012
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984070989402771

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