Picture Perception in Nonhuman Subjects

Cabe, Patrick A.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-313602-2.50017-5

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“…Workers have just begun to examine the importance of spatial organization (Van Hamme, Wasserman, & Biederman, 1992) and three-dimensionality (Cabe, 1980;Cerelia, 1977;Delius, 1992) to the pigeon's visual discriminations. The present results indicate that the pigeon's representation of the shape of a complex object involves the individual parts of the object as well as the spatial arrangements among them.…”

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Pigeons Are Sensitive to the Spatial Organization of Complex Visual Stimuli

et al. 1993

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Two experimellts investigated the role ofspatial organization in the discrimination and generalization of complex visual stimuli by pigeons. In Experiment I, after pigeons had been trained to discriminate line drawings offour objects, they were tested with novel pictures in which the same componellt parts ofthe objects were spatially rearranged. The spatially scrambled pictures led to a dramatic drop in recognition accuracy, but responding remained above chance. In Experimellt 2, pigeons reached a high level of discriminative performance when required to choose among four different spatial arrangements of the same object parts. These results confirm Cerelia's (1980) conclusion that pigeons discriminate the componellt parts of complex visual stimuli, but, unless it is assumed that the scrambling deleted or created emergent features, the results disconfirm his conclusion that spatial organization plays no role in pigeons' picture perception.

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Pigeons Are Sensitive to the Spatial Organization of Complex Visual Stimuli

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“…There may be other explanations; one could speculate that the real doll and the real banana are seen as more prototypical instances of their respective categories; alternatively, that they may simply be more interesting because of having more perceptual predicates (Sonesson 2009). Doves have been known to react differently to a picture and its referent (Cabe 1980). Even though children start to react differently to a real object and the corresponding picture at around the age of 1 year, they require about another 1.5 years to develop the ability to use pictures and videos as a source of information guiding their search behavior in a real setting.…”

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From sign to action: Studies in chimpanzee pictorial competence

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Hribar

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2014

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Many studies of children and apes realized in psychology address issues that are highly relevant to semiotics, but they often do so indirectly, or they use a terminology that is confusing and/or too vague from a semiotical point of view. The studies reported here, however, follow the paradigm of these psychological studies, but they are couched in an explicit semiotical terminology. They involve three classical semiotical issues: the nature of the sign, as opposed to other meanings; degrees and/or types of iconicity and their relevance for understanding; and the importance of temporal focus in different kinds of semiotical resources. The studies all involve one subject, the chimpanzee Alex, and all issues were studied looking at the actions accomplished by the subject after being exposed to different semiotic resources.(CS4) WDG (155×230mm) DGMetaScience J

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“…There is general agreement in the literature that animals do not produce pictures. Whether animals can perceive markings-and in particular, pictures-produced by humans is less clear (Cabe, 1980). A comprehensive up-to-date review of this work is needed but is beyond the scope of this paper and the expertise of the author.…”

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