Learning an object from multiple views enhances its recognition in an orthogonal rotational axis in pigeons

Jessie J Peissig; Edward A Wasserman; Michael E Young; Irving Biederman

doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00128-1

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Learning an object from multiple views enhances its recognition in an orthogonal rotational axis in pigeons

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Learning an object from multiple views enhances its recognition in an orthogonal rotational axis in pigeons

Jessie J Peissig, Edward A Wasserman, Michael E Young and Irving Biederman

Vision research (Oxford), Vol.42(17), pp.2051-2062

2002

DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00128-1

PMID: 12169424

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In the natural environment, most objects are seen from several different viewpoints. We explored the nature of recognition after training with multiple views and compared it to recognition after training with only one view. Pigeons were taught with either five views or one view of each of four single-geon objects. Pigeons trained with five views responded more accurately to novel views of an object than did pigeons trained with only one view. This result held even when the novel views came from a rotational axis that was orthogonal to the training axis. These results do not accord with recognition processes involving mental rotation or direct interpolation. Pigeons trained with five views may have formed a view-invariant representation [Psychol. Rev. 94 (1987) 115; Vision Res. 39 (1999) 2885]; alternatively, they may have acquired a more detailed shape space of the objects in which to measure object similarity [Representation and recognition in vision, MIT Press, MA, 1999], or learned to attend to a broader range of features of each object [J. Exp. Anal. Behav. 54 (1990) 69].

Pigeon ( Columba livia)

Object recognition

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Title: Subtitle: Learning an object from multiple views enhances its recognition in an orthogonal rotational axis in pigeons
Creators: Jessie J Peissig - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Edward A Wasserman - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Michael E Young - Department of Psychology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901, USA
Irving Biederman - Department of Psychology, The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Vision research (Oxford), Vol.42(17), pp.2051-2062
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00128-1
PMID: 12169424
NLM abbreviation: Vision Res
ISSN: 0042-6989
eISSN: 1878-5646
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Language: English
Date published: 2002
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984070768402771

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