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Published on: March 18, 2019
Lateralized effects of categorical and coordinate spatial processing of component parts on the recognition of 3D
Ayako Saneyoshi1, Chikashi Michimata
1Department of Psychology, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. a-sane@main.teikyo-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
Participants performed two object-matching tasks for novel, non-nameable objects consisting of geons. For each original stimulus, two transformations were applied to create comparison stimuli. In the categorical transformation, a geon connected to geon A was moved to geon B. In the coordinate transformation, a geon connected to geon A was moved to a different position on geon A. The Categorical task consisted of the original and the categorically transformed objects. The Coordinate task consisted of the original and the coordinately transformed objects. The original object was presented to the central visual field, followed by a comparison object presented to the right or left visual half-fields (RVF and LVF). The results showed an RVF advantage for the Categorical task and an LVF advantage for the Coordinate task. The possibility that categorical and coordinate spatial processing subsystems would be basic computational elements for between- and within-category object recognition was discussed.
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