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    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Multidimensional Scaling
    • Perception

    Background:

    • Understanding how humans process complex visual information is crucial.
    • Multidimensional data often contains both categorical (typal) and continuous (dimensional) variations.
    • Previous methods struggled to simultaneously account for both variation types in perceptual tasks.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the simultaneous processing of typal and dimensional variations in multidimensional visual patterns.
    • To evaluate the effectiveness of different multidimensional scaling (MDS) rotation techniques in recovering these variations.
    • To determine if human perception can differentiate between class membership and inherent dimensional differences.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized the TORSCA nonometric multidimensional scaling (MDS) procedure.
    • Scaled similarity judgments for pairs of 14 polygons from two physical classes.
    • Applied both vari-max and Degerman rotation techniques to the TORSCA solutions.
    • Conducted confirmatory regression analysis using physical measures of variation.

    Main Results:

    • Vari-max rotation of TORSCA solutions did not reveal processing of dimensional variation.
    • Degerman rotation successfully recovered both typal (class) and dimensional variation sources.
    • Confirmatory regression analysis supported the effectiveness of Degerman rotation.

    Conclusions:

    • Human perception can simultaneously process both class-based and dimensional variations in visual patterns.
    • Degerman rotation is a more appropriate method than vari-max rotation for analyzing such multidimensional perceptual data.
    • This finding advances our understanding of how perceptual systems disentangle different sources of variation.