This paper describes an experiment to distinguish between two theories of human visual
object recognition. According to the view-specificity hypothesis, object recognition is based …

Successful vision systems must overcome differences in two-dimensional input shapes
arising from orientation changes in three-dimensional objects. How the human visual system …

Visual object recognition is complicated by the fact that the same 3D object can give rise to a
large variety of projected images that depend on the viewing conditions, such as viewing …

Human performance in the recognition of 3-D objects, as measured by response times and
error rates, frequently depends on the orientation of the object with respect to the observer …

We report four experiments that investigated the representation of novel three-dimensional
(3D) objects by the human visual system. In the first experiment, canonical views were …

Successful object recognition is essential for finding food, identifying kin, and avoiding
danger, as well as many other adaptive behaviors. To accomplish this feat, the visual system …

Depth rotations can reveal new object parts and result in poor recognition of “static” objects
(Biederman & Gerhardstein, 1993). Recent studies have suggested that multiple object …

When we look at an object as we move or the object moves, our visual system is presented
with a sequence of different views of the object. It has been suggested that such regular …

The debate on viewpoint dependency (VD) of internal representations focuses only on the
VD of the performance and equates it directly with VD of the representation, excluding the …

Many previous studies of object recognition have found view-dependent recognition
performance when view changes are produced by rotating objects relative to a stationary …