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Rebecca J Sharman¹, P George Lovell¹

¹Division of Psychology, Abertay University, Dundee, UK.

|September 27, 2019

Summary

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Disruptive colouration (DC) with edge enhancement (EE) impairs shape discrimination, even without a textured background. This camouflage may lead to misidentification of animals exhibiting edge enhancement disruptive colouration.

Keywords:

camouflage contours/surfaces features/parts object recognition objects and features shape shapes/objects

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Area of Science:

Animal coloration and camouflage
Visual perception and pattern recognition

Background:

Disruptive colouration (DC) uses pigmentation to create false edges, masking an animal's outline.
Edge enhancement (EE), often seen with DC, involves lighter areas having lighter edges and darker areas having darker edges.
EE DC can hinder target localization and identification, even in non-hidden subjects.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how disruptive colouration (DC) and edge enhancement (EE) affect shape discrimination.
To determine if EE DC impairs shape discrimination independently of background texture.

Main Methods:

A novel task was designed to measure shape discrimination performance.
Participants judged the 'wiggliness' of snake targets with three colouration types: uniform, DC, and EE DC.
Targets were presented against two background types: uniform and leafy.

Main Results:

Edge enhancement disruptive colouration (EE DC) significantly impaired shape discrimination performance.
This impairment occurred even when targets were not concealed within a textured background.
Shape discrimination was hindered by EE DC irrespective of the background type.

Conclusions:

Edge enhancement disruptive colouration (EE DC) negatively impacts an observer's ability to discriminate target shapes.
The mechanism of EE DC may contribute to the misidentification of targets in natural environments.
Further research into the perceptual effects of EE DC is warranted.