Perception of fragmented images of three-dimensional objects as the observation angle changes

Neurosci Behav Physiol. 2010 Jun;40(5):565-72. doi: 10.1007/s11055-010-9300-x. Epub 2010 May 14.

Abstract

Recognition thresholds for incomplete two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects were measured as the observation angle was changed. A new experimental psychophysical method was developed and programmed for this purpose, this being a modification of the Gollin test, which measures perception thresholds of incomplete outline images. After training to a stimulus alphabet, observers' responses were found to be invariant to changes in the observation angles of three-dimensional objects from 15 degrees to 60 degrees. It is suggested that possible algorithms for the formation of models of three-dimensional images in the human visual system do not operate on the basis of simple section, but involve invariance mechanisms.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual / physiology
  • Visual Perception / physiology*