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  • Cognitive Science
  • Psychology
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Actions are known to inform scene categorization.
  • The hierarchical structure of scenes may be driven by actions.
  • Anchor objects predict local object presence and position within scenes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if anchor objects drive scene hierarchy.
  • To test whether anchor objects inform scene function understanding.
  • To determine the role of action-related objects in scene perception.

Main Methods:

  • Experiment 1: Participants matched action words to scenes with manipulated anchor objects (removed action-related, unrelated, or non-anchor).
  • Experiment 2: Lexical decision task (LDT) on action words primed by scenes with inconsistent or related anchor objects.
  • Control experiment to isolate effects from scene categorization.

Main Results:

  • Impaired matching performance when action-related anchor objects were removed (Experiment 1).
  • Reduced LDT performance with inconsistent or related anchor object primes (Experiment 2).
  • Scene categorization alone did not fully explain the observed effects.

Conclusions:

  • Understanding scene function is strongly linked to action-relevant anchor objects.
  • Contextual scene information is not always sufficient for scene function understanding.
  • Anchor objects play a key role in the functional organization of scenes.