The role of scene summary statistics in object recognition.

ABSTRACT: Objects that are semantically related to the visual scene context are typically better recognized than unrelated objects. While context effects on object recognition are well studied, the question which particular visual information of an object's surroundings modulates its semantic processing is still unresolved. Typically, one would expect contextual influences to arise from high-level, semantic components of a scene but what if even low-level features could modulate object processing? Here, we generated seemingly meaningless textures of real-world scenes, which preserved similar summary statistics but discarded spatial layout information. In Experiment 1, participants categorized such textures better than colour controls that lacked higher-order scene statistics while original scenes re

SUBMITTER: Lauer T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6168578 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature