Learning in-depth semantic associations with novel objects facilitates recognition and attenuates viewpoint dependency¶

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q3 i? Associating clusters of distinctive semantic features with novel objects facilitates discrimination across viewpoints, and this attenuation occurs for in-depth semantic associations but not for non-semantic verbal labels. → Collins 2014

Evidence¶

Collins 2014¶

Collins, Jessica A., & Olson, Ingrid R. (2014). Knowledge is Power: How Conceptual Knowledge Transforms Visual Cognition. Psychonomic bulletin & review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-013-0564-3

q3 · i? · review · r2

The review reports three behavioral training studies in which participants learned clusters of three semantic features per novel object and then performed a perceptual matching task with the second object shown at 0°, 30°, 60°, or 120° viewpoints. No effect sizes are printed.

"the viewpoint dependency of object recognition was attenuated for objects that had been associated with in-depth semantic associations (Curby et al., 2004), but not for those associated with non-semantic verbal labels (Collins & Curby, 2013)"

Discussion¶

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