Effects of Spatial Separation in Visual Pattern Matching: Evidence on the Role of Mental Translation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 719-731

  Larsen, Axel ^a   Bundesen, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032089027     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.24.3.719     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Besner, D. (1983). Visual pattern recognition: Size preprocessing re-examined. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 35A, 209-216.
2. Besner, D., & Coltheart, M. (1976). Mental size scaling examined. Memory & Cognition, 4, 525-531.
3. Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
4. Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1991). Evidence for complete translational and reflectional invariance in visual object priming. Perception, 20, 585-593.
5. Biederman, I., & Cooper, E. E. (1992). Size invariance in visual object priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 18, 121-133.
6. Biederman, I., & Gerhardstein, P. C. (1993). Recognizing depth-rotated objects: Evidence and conditions for three-dimensional viewpoint invariance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 1162-1182.
7. Bundesen, C., & Larsen, A. (1975). Visual transformation of size. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1, 214-220.
8. Bundesen, C., Larsen, A., & Farrell, J. E. (1981). Mental transformations of size and orientation. In J. Long & A. Baddeley (Eds.), Attention and performance IX (pp. 279-294). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
9. Bundesen, C., Larsen, A., & Farrell, J. E. (1983). Visual apparent movement: Transformations of size and orientation. Perception, 12, 549-558.
10. Cave, K. R., & Kosslyn, S. M. (1989). Varieties of size-specific visual selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 118, 148-164.
11. Cave, K. R., Pinker, S., Giorgi, L., Thomas, C. E., Heller, L. M., Wolfe, J. M., & Lin, H. (1994). The representation of location in visual images. Cognitive Psychology, 26, 1-32.
12. Cohen, D., & Kubovy, M. (1993). Mental rotation, mental representation, and flat slopes. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 351-382.
13. Cooper, L. A. (1976). Demonstration of a mental analog of an external rotation. Perception & Psychophysics, 19, 296-302.
14. Cooper, L. A., & Shepard, R. N. (1973). Chronometric studies of the rotation of mental images. In W. G. Chase (Ed.), Visual information processing (pp. 75-176). New York: Academic Press.
15. Corballis, M. C. (1988). Recognition of disoriented shapes. Psychological Review, 95, 115-123.
16. Corballis, M. C., & Cullen, S. (1986). Decisions about the axes of disoriented shapes. Memory & Cognition, 14, 27-38.
17. Corballis, M. C., Zbrodoff, N. J., Shetzer, L. I., & Butler, P. B. (1978). Decisions about identity and orientation of rotated letters and digits. Memory & Cognition, 6, 98-107.
18. Dodwell, P. C. (Ed.). (1971). Perceptual processing: Stimulus equivalence and pattern recognition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
19. Edelman, S., & Weinshall, D. (1991). A self-organizing multiple-view representation of 3D objects. Biological Cybernetics, 64, 209-219.
20. Eriksen, C. W. (1995). The flankers task and response competition: A useful tool for investigating a variety of cognitive problems. Visual Cognition, 2, 101-118.
21. Farah, M. J., & Hammond, K. M. (1988). Mental rotation and orientation-invariant object recognition: Dissociable processes. Cognition, 29, 29-46.
22. Foster, D. H., & Kahn, J. I. (1985). Internal representations and operations in visual comparison of transformed patterns: Effects of pattern point-inversion, positional symmetry, and separation. Biological Cybernetics, 51, 305-312.
23. Green, D. M., & Swets, J. A. (1966). Signal detection theory and psychophysics. New York: Wiley.
24. Hake, H. W. (1966). Form discrimination and the invariance of form. In L. Uhr (Ed.), Pattern recognition (pp. 142-173). New York: Wiley.
25. Hinton, G. E., & Parsons, L. M. (1981). Frames of reference and mental imagery. In J. Long & A. Baddeley (Eds.), Attention and performance IX (pp. 261-277). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
26. Howard, J. H., Jr., & Kerst, S. M. (1978). Directional effects of size change on the comparison of visual shapes. American Journal of Psychology, 91, 491-499.
27. Hummel, J. E., & Biederman, I. (1992). Dynamic binding in a neural network for shape recognition. Psychological Review, 99, 480-517.
28. Jolicoeur, P. (1985). The time to name disoriented natural objects. Memory & Cognition, 13, 289-303.
29. Jolicoeur, P. (1990). Orientation congruency effects on the identification of disoriented shapes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 351-364.
30. Jolicoeur, P., & Besner, D. (1987). Additivity and interaction between size ratio and response category in the comparison of size-discrepant shapes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 478-487.
31. Jolicoeur, P., & Landau, M. J. (1984). Effects of orientation on the identification of simple visual patterns. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 38, 80-93.
32. Kahn, J. I., & Foster, D. H. (1981). Visual comparison of rotated and reflected random-dot patterns as a function of their positional symmetry and separation in the field. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 33A, 155-166.
33. Korte, A. (1915). Kinematoskopische Untersuchungen [Kinetoscopic investigations]. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 72, 193-296.
34. Larsen, A. (1985). Pattern matching: Effects of size ratio, angular difference in orientation, and familiarity. Perception & Psychophysics, 38, 63-68.
35. Larsen, A., & Bundesen, C. (1978). Size scaling in visual pattern recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 4, 1-20.
36. Larsen, A., & Bundesen, C. (1992). The efficiency of holistic template matching in the recognition of unconstrained handwritten digits. Psychological Research, 54, 187-193.
37. Larsen, A., & Bundesen, C. (1996). A template-matching pandemonium recognizes unconstrained handwritten characters with high accuracy. Memory & Cognition, 24, 136-143.
38. Larsen, A., Farrell, J. E., & Bundesen, C. (1983). Short- and long-range processes in visual apparent movement. Psychological Research, 45, 11-18.
39. Marr, D. (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information. New York: Freeman.
40. Marr, D., & Nishihara, H. K. (1978). Representation and recognition of the spatial organization of three-dimensional shapes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 200, 269-294.
41. Rock, I. (1973). Orientation and form. New York: Academic Press.
42. Sekuler, R., & Nash, D. (1972). Speed of size scaling in human vision. Psychonomic Science, 27, 93-94.
43. Shepard, R. N. (1984). Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming. Psychological Review, 91, 417-447.
44. Shepard, R. N., & Cooper, L. A. (1982). Mental images and their transformations. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
45. Shepard, R. N., & Judd, S. A. (1976). Perceptual illusion of rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 191, 952-954.
46. Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171, 701-703.
47. Simion, F., Bagnara, S., Roncato, S., & Umilta, C. (1982). Transformation processes upon the visual code. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 13-25.
48. Sternberg, S. (1969). The discovery of processing stages: Extensions of Donders' method. Acta Psychologica, 30, 276-315.
49. Sternberg, S. (in press). Discovering mental processing stages: The method of additive factors. In D. Scarborough & S. Sternberg (Eds.), An invitation to cognitive science: Vol. 4. Methods, models, and conceptual issues. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
50. Sutherland, N. S. (1968). Outlines of a theory of visual pattern recognition in animals and man. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 171, 297-317.
51. Tarr, M. J. (1995). Rotating objects to recognize them: A case study on the role of viewpoint dependency in the recognition of three-dimensional objects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2, 55-82.
52. Tarr, M. J., & Bülthoff, H. H. (1995). Is human object recognition better described by geon structural descriptions or by multiple views? Comment on Biederman and Gerhardstein (1993). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 1494-1505.
53. Tarr, M. J., & Pinker, S. (1989). Mental rotation and orientation-dependence in shape recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 21, 233-282.
54. Ullman, S. (1989). Aligning pictorial descriptions: An approach to object recognition. Cognition, 32, 193-254.
55. Wagemans, J., Van Gool, L., & Lamote, C. (1996). The visual system's measurement of invariants need not itself be invariant. Psychological Science, 7, 232-236.
56. Winer, B. J. (1962). Statistical principles in experimental design. New York: McGraw-Hill.