In order to better understand the accumulation of object information over time, within and beyond the period of visual persistence, we compared object capacity estimates (see the Method section) across the four conditions (Figs. 3 and 7).
To elucidate the relationship between columnar organization in IT cortex and the variability among neurons with respect to object selectivity, we used optical imaging technique to locate columnar regions (activity spots) and systematically compared object selectivity of individual neurons within and across the spots.
In the original 1993 study, Gordon L. Shaw and Frances H. Rauscher showed that a small group of college students performed better on certain spatial-reasoning tests after listening to a Mozart sonata -- "seeing" the design of a snowflake, for example, after mentally cutting and folding a piece of paper, or rotating and comparing objects conceptually in space.
Scientists have long been driven by the desire to describe, organize, classify, and compare objects using taxonomies and/or ontologies.
Results suggest that learning strategies prompting students to compare objects of different sizes, may increase their abilities in ordering and classifying objects.
To make recommendations, the system compares objects to find those that seems to be the closest to the user's preferences.
Thus, in order to perform correctly, participants had to compare objects on the basis of a variable other than mass or volume.
Results show that the relative contribution of size depends on stimulus set, but is independent of the method used for comparing objects.
We asked participants to compare objects that are composed of separable features simultaneously, a perception task, and sequentially, a memory task.
