1. Recognising objects and faces

2. General problems Given that objects move on a surface, why do they not appear to change shape? How do we recognise objects that we can only partially see? How do we extract the definitive properties of each object from stimulation on the retina? How do we match the definitive object properties to a stored item in long-term memory (LTM)?

3. How do we refer to these problems? shape constancy occlusion extracting the definitive properties finding a match in LTM

4. Basic theoretical accounts of object representation Templates and Alignment theories (e.g., Ullman, 1989; Bülthoff & Edelman, 1992)

11. Features (Selfridge, 1961).

12. Structural descriptions (e.g. Marr, 1982)

14. Part-based theories (e.g., Marr & Nishihara, 1978; Biederman, 1987)

18. Representing faces Faces as wholes not parts (in contrast to houses) Effect of inversion on face processing (in contrast to houses)

19. Effects of probe type (Tanaka and Farah, 1993; Donnelly and Davidoff, 1999)

21. Scrambled stimuli

23. Effects of inversion on face processing

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