?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Representation+of+Object+Similarity+in+Human+Vision%3A+Psychophysics+and+a+Computational+Model&rft.creator=Cutzu%2C+Florin&rft.creator=Edelman%2C+Shimon&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=We+report+results+from+perceptual+judgment%2C+delayed+matching+to+sample%2C+and+long-term+memory+recall+experiments%2C+which+indicate+that+the+human+visual+system+can+support+metrically+veridical+representations+of+similarities+among+3D+objects.+In+all+the+experiments%2C+animal-like+computer-rendered+stimuli+formed+regular+planar+configurations+in+a+common+70-dimensional+parameter+space.+These+configurations+were+fully+recovered+by+multidimensional+scaling+from+proximity+tables+derived+from+the+subject+data.+This+is+possible+if+shapes+are+encoded+by+their+similarities+to+a+number+of+reference+(prototypical)+shapes+(as+in+the+computational+model+that+accompanies+the+psychophysical+data)%2C+but+not+if+the+system+stores+merely+the+distinctive+features+of+the+objects%2C+or+their+structural+descriptions+(which+were+the+same+for+all+the+stimuli).&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F567%2F2%2F199711001.ps&rft.identifier=++Cutzu%2C+Florin+and+Edelman%2C+Shimon++(1997)+Representation+of+Object+Similarity+in+Human+Vision%3A+Psychophysics+and+a+Computational+Model.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F567%2F<script src='//archive-bar.soton.ac.uk/archive-bar.js'></script>