Abstract
Bishop Berkeley suggested that the distance of an object can be estimated if the object’s size is familiar to the observer. It has been suggested that humans can perceive the distance of the object by using such “familiarity” information, but most or many of the prior experiments that found an effect of familiarity were not designed to minimize or eliminate potential influences of: higher cognitive factors on the observers’ responses, or the influences of low-level image features in the visual stimuli used. We looked for the familiarity effect in two experiments conducted both in Russia and Japan. The visual stimuli used were images of three coins used in Russia and Japan. The participants’ depth perception was measured with a multiple-choice task testing the perceived depth-order of the coins. Our expectation was that any effect of “familiarity” on depth perception would only be observed with the coins of the participant’s country. We expected a substantial familiarity effect based on our meta-analysis of the “familiarity” effects observed in prior experiments. But, our results in both experiments showed that the familiarity effect was virtually zero. These findings suggest that the importance of a familiarity effect in depth perception should be reconsidered.
Highlights
We perceive the shapes of objects and their positions within a scene veridically based on visual information, and we can interact with them effectively in our everyday life
The effect size of the familiarity cue was estimated on the basis of a meta-analysis experiments
The effect size of the familiarity cue was estimated on the basis of a meta‐analysis of of past
Summary
We perceive the shapes of objects and their positions within a scene veridically based on visual information, and we can interact with them effectively in our everyday life. An early highlight in these discussions includes Berkeley’s [3] realization that recovery of 3D information contained in a scene from the 2D information in its retinal image was problematic He went on to suggest that early experience with the tactile perception of an object could be important for establishing the shape and distance of the object based only on visual information. The human human cognitive cognitive system system may may require require aa longer longer viewing viewing duration duration to generalization of of our our results. It is is possible possible that that the the effect effect of of the retrieve memorized memorized size size of of the the familiar familiar objects. Studying any familiarity on visual perception is challenging because the systematic control
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