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The spatiotemporal pattern projected by a moving object is specific to that object, as it depends on both the shape and the dynamics of the object. Previous research has shown that observers learn to make use of this spatiotemporal signature to recognize dynamic faces and objects. In two experiments, we assessed the extent to which the structural similarity of the objects and the presence of spatiotemporal noise affect how these signatures are learned and subsequently used in recognition. Observers first learned to identify novel, structurally distinctive or structurally similar objects that rotated with a particular motion. At test, each learned object moved with its studied motion or with a non-studied motion. In the non-studied motion condition we manipulated either dynamic information alone (experiment 1) or both static and dynamic information (experiment 2). Across both experiments we found that changing the learned motion of an object impaired recognition performance when 3-D shape was similar or when the visual input was noisy during learning. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that observers use learned spatiotemporal signatures and that such information becomes progressively more important as shape information becomes less reliable.
Author(s): Vuong QC, Tarr MJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Perception
Year: 2006
Volume: 35
Issue: 4
Pages: 497-510
ISSN (print): 0301-0066
ISSN (electronic): 1468-4233
Publisher: Pion Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p5491
DOI: 10.1068/p5491
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