Priming and recognition of transformed three-dimensional objects: Effects of size and reflection.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and CognitionPublished 1 January 1992
Lynn A. Cooper, Daniel L. Schacter, Soledad Ballesteros, Cassandra Moore
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Abstract
In 2 experiments exploring memory for unfamiliar 3-dimensional objects, Ss studied drawings under conditions that encouraged encoding of global object structure. Implicit memory for objects was assessed by a judgment of structural possibility; explicit memory was assessed by recognition. The principal manipulation was the relationship between the sizes or the left-right parities of the studied and tested objects. Priming was observed on the possible-impossible object decision task despite transformations of size or reflection. Recognition, by contrast, was significantly impaired by the transformations. These results suggest that a structural description system constructs representations of objects invariant over size and reflection, whereas a separable episodic system encodes these transformations as properties of an object's distinctive representation in memory.
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