Deck 3: Object and Face Recognition

Question 1

According to Biederman (1987), which of the following is NOT one of the invariant properties of edges?

A) Collinearity
B) Colour
C) Cotermination
D) Curvature
E) Symmetry

Answer 1

Colour

Question 2

Pylsyhyn's (2002) propositional theory of mental imagery emphasises the importance of:

A) Depictive representations
B) Geons
C) Verbal skills
D) Tacit knowledge
E) Quasi-pictorial representations

Answer 2

Tacit knowledge

Question 3

Which brain area responds more strongly to faces than other stimuli categories?

A) Amygdala
B) Occipital lobe
C) Temporal sulcus
D) Frontal lobes
E) Fusiform gyrus

Answer 3

Fusiform gyrus

Question 4

Which of the following is a criticism of gestaltist ideas concerning perceptual organisation?

A) They did not take into consideration the importance of past experience and learning
B) They rarely provided adequate explanations for the descriptions of perceptual phenomena
C) They did not identify all the principles of perceptual organisation
D) Their findings were mostly based on 2-D line drawings
E) All of the above

Question 5

The gestaltist law that states that visual elements that are located close to each other, tend to be grouped together, is the law of:

A) Proximity
B) Good continuation
C) Similarity
D) Closure
E) Common fate

Question 6

According to Bruce and Young's (1986) model, which process produces various descriptions or representations of faces

A) Directed visual processing
B) Structural encoding
C) Face recognition units
D) Person identity nodes
E) Name generation

Question 7

Milivojevic et al. (2012) stated that object-recognition is typically not influenced by ____ when categorisation is required?

A) object orientation
B) colour constancy
C) within-object discriminations
D) the identification of voxels
E) viewpoint change

Question 8

Biederman's recognition-by-components theory held that objects consist of components known as what?

A) Gabors
B) Geons
C) Voxels
D) Pixels
E) Gratings

Question 9

Kosslyn used which of the following terms to refer to the brain areas in which depictive representations are formed?

A) Visuo-spatial sketchpad
B) Episodic buffer
C) Visual buffer
D) Working memory
E) Brodmann Area 13

Question 10

In which disorder do patients have an inability to access facial memories?

A) Associative prosopagnosia
B) Apperceptive prosopagnosia
C) Optic ataxia
D) Prosopagnosia
E) Aphasia

Question 11

Configural processing is otherwise known as:

A) Local processing
B) Feature processing
C) Semantic processing
D) Holistic processing
E) Detailed processing

Question 12

The condition in which people cannot recognise faces, but can recognise common objects, is called:

A) Associative agnosia
B) Apperceptive agnosia
C) Optic ataxia
D) Prosopagnosia
E) Aphasia

Question 13

In Marr's theory of object recognition, which representations are observer-centred?

A) The primal sketch
B) The 2 1/2-D sketch
C) The 3-D sketch
D) The primal and 2 1/2-D sketch
E) The primal and 3-D sketch

Question 14

Neurons responding strongly to one visual object, but weakly (or not at all) to other objects, possess high:

A) Invariance
B) Tolerance
C) Dimensionality
D) Selectivity
E) Greebles

Question 15

Which disorder involves problems with object recognition that result from deficits in face processing?

A) Associative prosopagnosia
B) Apperceptive prosopagnosia
C) Optic ataxia
D) Prosopagnosia
E) Aphasia

Question 16

The gestaltist law that states that similar elements will be grouped together perceptually is called the law of:

A) Proximity
B) Good continuation
C) Similarity
D) Closure
E) Common fate

Question 17

According to Kosslyn, depictive representations are created in which brain area, also known as BA17?

A) Early visual cortex
B) Superior temporal cortex
C) Amygdala
D) Fusiform gyrus
E) Thalamus

Question 18

The principle of visual organisation proposed by Palmer and Rock (1994) is termed:

A) The law of Prägnanz
B) The law of good continuation
C) The grouping principle
D) The principle of uniform connectedness
E) The isomorphism principle

Question 19

According to the recognition-by-components theory, the first stage in object recognition involves:

A) Edge extraction
B) Detection of non-accidental properties
C) Parsing of areas of concavity
D) Determination of components
E) Matching of components to object representations

Question 20

The fundamental principle that guides gestaltists is:

A) Koffka's Principle
B) Weber's Law
C) The principle of conservation
D) The law of Prägnanz
E) The principle of good contiguity

Question 21

Which gestaltist law was revealed when Johansson's (1973) participants perceived human motion, despite only actually seeing lights that had been strapped to an actor's joints?

A) Proximity
B) Good continuation
C) Similarity
D) Closure
E) Common fate

Question 22

Why was Marr's computational approach influential?

A) He realised bottom-up processing was highly influential in object recognition
B) He successfully combined ideas from different approaches
C) He realised vision told the truth about what is out there
D) The processess he proposed are simple computationally
E) All of the above

Question 23

According to Hubel and Wiesel (1962), simple cells are:

A) Respond to straight-line stimuli in a particular orientation
B) Are end-stopped cells
C) Cells that respond to dark bars in a light field and have an "on/off" rectangular region
D) Have large receptive fields that have "off" regions
E) Cells that respond to dark bars in a light field and have an "on/off" spherical region

Question 24

Which technique was famously used by Hubel and Wiesel (1962, 1979) to investigate visual processes in cats and monkeys?

A) EEG
B) Single-cell recording
C) MEG
D) fMRI
E) Lesions