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What rules are used to group objects?. Definitions (Feature Lists) Family Resemblance Similarity to Prototypes Exemplar models. Definitions and Features. Dogs are animals that have four legs, have fur, bark, wag their tails…. Family Resemblance. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What rules are used to group objects?
• Definitions (Feature Lists)• Family Resemblance• Similarity to Prototypes• Exemplar models
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Definitions and Features
• Dogs are animals that have four legs, have fur, bark, wag their tails…
Animal Four legs Fur Barks Wags tail
Banyan Tree X X X X X
Goldish √ X X X X
Persian Cat √ √ √ X X
German Shepherd √ √ √ √ √
Dachshund √ √ √ √ √
Mexican Hairless √ √ X √ √
Barking Deer √ √ √ √ ?
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Family Resemblance
• Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953) proposed that games could not be defined or categorized by features.
• Rather, any game shares some resemblance to some (but not all) other games.
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Similarity to Prototypes
• Rosch (1978). Prototype is a central, average, representation (real or constructed) of a category.
• Tokens sufficiently similar to the prototype are considered members of that category.
• Memory for specific exemplars.
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Exemplar Models
• To remember a category, just remember all the members of the category.
• Head-filling-up problem.
• Evidence for abstractions.
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Perception
Top-down
Or
Bottom-up?
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The problem of perception
• How does our perceptual system arrive at a “best” representation of the world?
• Conflicting demands:– Accuracy– Efficiency
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Data-driven processing(bottom-up)CognitionNeural ProcessingThe Real World
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• Standard (naïve) assumption is that perception is entirely data-driven
• Why is this naïve?– Perception must be accomplished in
sub-optimal conditions• Need for speed• Need for computational efficiency• But also need for accuracy!
– A common solution: “Best guess”
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Concealed and bi-stable figures: Evidence for a role of knowledge in perception
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Application of knowledge changes the way concealed
and bi-stable figures are perceived
Cognition
Neural Processing
The Real World
• Changes conscious processing (interpretation, object recognition)
• Changes unconscious processes (patterns of eye movements)
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Application of Knowledge
• Can be automatic – Either innately, or once learned
• Can also be controlled
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Rabbit/Duck
Jastrow (1900)
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Impossible Trident
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Illusions: Obligatory application of
knowledge in contradiction to available data.
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Application of knowledge is obligatory in these illusions
Cognition
Neural Processing
The Real World
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Sources of Illusions
• Illusions arise because our perceptual system is structured to act as if certain assumptions about the world are true.
• We can construct situations in which those assumptions appear to be true, but in fact are not. These situations are called illusions.
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Sources of Illusions
• Knowledge of visual cues to distance – The Müller Lyer Illusion
• Filling in missing information– Object occlusion
• Using context– Circles of relative size
– Text tricks
– Shades of white
– Circularity in pitch perception
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The Müller-Lyer Illusion
• Which vertical line is longer?
• Neither! They are the same length!
Müller-Lyer (1889)
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Explanation
• We need to be able to adjust our knowledge of an object’s size based on our perception of how far away from us it is.
• The arms of the arrows make the vertical lines look like the edges of corners – one pointing toward us, one pointing away.
• That makes it appear as if the vertex of the corner (the vertical line) is a different distance from us in each figure.
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What triangle?
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Explanation
• Most things in the world do not have abrupt, regular discontinuities.
• It makes more sense to assume that the black spots are circles rather than Pac Men.
• It also makes sense, then, to assume that the 3 “bites” are caused by the same object which lies in front of the circles.
• “Makes sense” means is more likely to be a correct representation of the world.
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Contextual cues
Which of the two middle circles is smaller?
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Is this a letter or a number?
BBAC12B14
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Circularity in pitch perception
Waterfall (M. C. Escher)
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Bibliography• Sheperd, R. N. (1964). Circularity in judgements of relative pitch. Journal of the Acoustical Society
of America, 36, 2346-2353.• Rosch, E. (1978). Principles of categorization. In Rosch, E. & Lloyd, B. (Eds.) Cognition and
Categorization. Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.• Wittgenstein, L. (1953). Philosophical Investigations. New York, Macmillan.
• Note: The illusions used in this demonstration come from various sources. When the original source is identifiable, it is given above. Otherwise, as much information as possible is provided to identify the illusion’s original author. Many illusions are so widely distributed that they appear to be in the public domain. The following texts and other sources are recommended:
• Deutsch, D. (1975). Musical Illusions. Scientific American, 233(4), 92-104.• Ernst, B. (1976). The Magic Mirror of M. C. Escher. New York, Ballantine.• Ernst, B. (1992). Optical Illusions. Trans. K. Williams. Originally published as Het Begoochelde
Oog. Taschen Verlag.• Held, R. (1974). Image, Object, and Illusion: Readings from Scientific American. Scientific
American, Inc.• Houtsma, A. J. M., Rossing, T. D., Wagenaars, W. M. (1987). Auditory Demonstrations (CD).
Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Institute for Perception Research (IPO) and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
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