The evolution of two new capabilities critical to cognitive performance is discussed: the evolution from non-specific anticipation to specific prediction, and the evolution of simple combinations of landmarks into detailed models of familiar places.
Participants felt or saw 3D plastic models of familiar objects.
Second, our stimuli were scale models of familiar objects, so many of their associated action representations would not be appropriate.
In Experiment 2, participants performed a haptic sequential shape-matching task on 3D plastic models of familiar objects.
In Experiment 1, participants performed a sequential shape matching task using plastic, 3D models of familiar objects.
Together the two studies reported here tested unimodal (HH and VV) and crossmodal (HV and VH) sequential matching of 3D models of familiar objects.
Furthermore, Lawson [4] showed that people can recognise small-scale 3D models of familiar objects, indicating that haptics can generalise across unusual sizes.
This conclusion is not consistent with the results reported by Lawson [4], who used the same sequential matching task and the same 3D plastic models of familiar objects as those used in the present article.
Previous studies suggested that curcumin, apigenin, and tenilsetam are promising compounds due to their pharmacokinetic properties and previous success in animal models of familiar AD or in patients.
Prediction accuracy of the model for familiar and unfamiliar mixes was tested in this study.
