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This approach claims the brain logs our experiences like an endless filing system that requires keys to unlock or access information stored in the past.
What is the Template Approach?
Scientists used this animal to study neuron responses in order to research the Feature-Analysis Approach. Meowch!
What are cats?
This theory was abandoned due to its many weaknesses. One example may CAPTCHA your attention.
What is the Template Approach?
This theory states our mind takes 3-D objects and combines them in a particular order to create one perceptual object.
What is the Recognition-by-components theory?
These scientists used cats to study the Feature-Analysis Approach.
Who are Hubel & Wiesel?
These 3-D objects were what surpassed the 2-D method used in the Feature-Analysis Approach which only helps recognize simple shapes and lines.
What are geons?
This theory says that objects are recognized by a few distinctive features such as lines and curves.
What is Feature-Analysis Approach?
These two primates were used in fMRI research to show that different areas in the cortex other than the visual cortex respond to 3-D objects.
What are humans and monkeys?
The Template Approach lacks this which is necessary for perceiving the various stimuli in the world around us.
What is flexibility?
This theory explains why we are able to easily recognize written numbers and letters.
What is Feature-Analysis Approach?
This scientist developed the Recognition-by-components theory.
Who is Irving Biederman?
The recognition-by-components approach was modified to account for this which is used in the viewer-centered approach.
What is viewpoint?
This theory expresses that an object is perceived in ways that are specific to the beholder.
What is Viewer-centered approach?
This psychologist discovered that it takes us longer to decide if two letters are different if they share characteristics.
Who is Eleanor Gibson?
The use of this has faulted all of these theories of object recognition.
What is Bottom-Up Perception?