When does Human Object Recognition use a Viewer-Centered Reference Frame?
- 1 July 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 1 (4), 253-256
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1990.tb00209.x
Abstract
How do people recognize an object in different orientations? One theory is that the visual system describes the object relative to a reference frame centered on the object, resulting in a representation that is invariant across orientations. Chronometric data show that this is true only when an object can be identified uniquely by the arrangement of its parts along a single dimension. When an object can only be distinguished by an arrangement of its parts along more than one dimension, people mentally rotate it to a familiar orientation. This finding suggests that the human visual reference frame is tied to egocentric coordinates.Keywords
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