Harries M H, Perrett D I, Lavender A
Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK.
Perception. 1991;20(5):669-80. doi: 10.1068/p200669.
The importance of different perspective views for the recognition of model heads was studied. In experiment 1 subjects were instructed to learn the appearance of six heads placed individually on a turntable free to rotate through 360 degrees. Subjects did not distribute their time evenly but focussed their inspection on particular views (the full face view and a view close to the profile). Despite differential inspection of these two views during the learning phase, the face, half profile, and profile views were recognized with equal efficiency in a subsequent recognition task with static views. Experiment 2 used the inspection paradigm to investigate view preference during the recognition of heads from memory. In this experiment subjects were asked to learn the appearance of three heads each seen rotating at an even speed. In a subsequent retrieval task the subjects actively inspected six model heads on the turntable and were asked to differentiate the three heads previously seen rotating from three novel heads. The pattern of inspection in this retrieval task was equivalent to that in experiment 1. Results suggest that during the encoding into memory subjects construct descriptions of specific prototypical views of the head and that descriptions of these same views are preferentially utilised during recognition.
研究了不同视角视图对于识别模型头部的重要性。在实验1中，受试者被要求学习分别放置在可360度自由旋转的转盘上的六个头部的外观。受试者并未平均分配时间，而是将检查重点集中在特定视图（正视图和接近侧视图的一个视图）上。尽管在学习阶段对这两个视图的检查有所不同，但在随后的静态视图识别任务中，面部、半侧视图和侧视图的识别效率相同。实验2使用检查范式来研究从记忆中识别头部时的视图偏好。在该实验中，受试者被要求学习三个以均匀速度旋转的头部的外观。在随后的检索任务中，受试者主动检查转盘上的六个模型头部，并被要求区分之前看到旋转的三个头部和三个新的头部。该检索任务中的检查模式与实验1中的相同。结果表明，在编码到记忆过程中，受试者构建了头部特定原型视图的描述，并且在识别过程中优先使用这些相同视图的描述。
