PERCEPTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF MIRROR-REVERSED PATTERNS
PERCEPTION AND IDENTIFICATION OF MIRROR-REVERSED PATTERNS
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DOI:
10.1080/14640747608400553
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
PATTERSON, K
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作者:
BRADSHAW, J;BRADLEY, D;PATTERSON, K
Many species [e.g., children, monkeys, cats, rats, pigeons, fish and octopuses] have difficulty in discriminating between mirror-image stimuli, especially those about a vertical axis, and when identificatory rather than purely perceptual processes are involved. Various theories are reviewed. In 2 experiments involving same-different judgments for pairs of stimuli, triangles or semicircles, these were simultaneously presented either unilaterally or bilaterally, and in mirror or aligned orientations with respect to each other. Mirror oriented stimuli presented to opposite cerebral hemispheres were no more readily matched than those possessing the same orientations (aligned), thus suggesting that at the perceptual level there is no interaction between mirror-corresponding points in the 2 visual cortices. Foreknowledge of stimulus orientations failed differentially to affect the findings. Two other studies were performed involving manual identification of single letters, correct or mirror oriented, in either visual field. For most human subjects mirror reversal proved either less disruptive or even advantageous when in the visual field which is normally inferior with correctly oriented material. Mirror-image confusion at the level of memory is almost certainly a consequence of reversed coding, in some form, in the opposite sides of the brain. A number of incidental findings were made with respect to visual field effects.