Looking at rubbish is hard. It’s hard to discriminate actual object. Scale is tricky. There will be more rubbish soon..

Above are some recognition stimulus images paired with their ‘degraded/abstracted” image. Apparently the neurons involved in the recognition process prefer the more abstract stimuli.

Two article by Tanaka on Object Recognition and Deformation Column Matrices in the Inferotemopral Cortex

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Sven Panis, Joris Vangeneugden, Hans P. Op de Beeck, Johan Wagemans on Object Deformation and Recognition

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SVO Stimulus Set