This article advances a framework that casts object recognition as a process of discrimination between alternative object identities, in which top-down and bottom-up processes interact iteratively when necessary with attention to distinguishing features playing a critical role.
Some artists print their information on alternative objects and material, such as figurines, buttons, stickers, cloth, and plastic.
This noise can mask the point at which signal-driven eye movements do in fact discriminate between the alternative objects in the display.
This means that determining the precise point at which the system first discriminates between the alternative objects on the basis of the acoustic signal is complicated by a confounding of signal-driven eye movements with what can termed noise-driven eye movements.
A different question (which we did not ask in Altmann & Kamide, 2004) is perhaps more appropriate: When does the eye movement record first indicate discrimination, on the basis of the linguistic input, between the alternative objects to which the eyes can be targeted?
To start each trial, the rat ran from the central holding area to the sample end to explore novel object A. This familiarisation phase was followed by a choice test at the opposite end of the shuttle box between the now familiar, object A and a novel alternative, object B. New sets of objects were used for each trial.
Mally accepted not only Meinong's distinction between object and objective but also the distinction between dignitative (object based on feeling) and desiderative (object based on willing).
A predefined linkage between one object and another.
