@article{4d2ef3eec12a4701af3e4e7ea5a50e64,
title = "Orientation and experience in the perception of form: A study with the arizona whale-kangaroo",
abstract = "When subjects are presented with the Arizona whale-kangaroo, an ambiguous figure, perception of the whale is more common than perception of the kangaroo. However, this difference is smaller in Australian than American subjects. Perception of the kangaroo is more orientation dependent than perception of the whale, which is perceived at all orientations of the stimulus. Together with the difference between subject populations, this effect reveals an influence of past experience on the perception of this new ambiguous figure. Perception of the whale versus the kangaroo differs in both reconstrual of parts and realignment of the object-centered reference frame. Observers report reference frame reconstruals before reference frame reversals, shedding light on the organization of object memory.",
keywords = "Ambiguous figures, Bistable figures, Category clustering, Culture and perception, Form perception, Multistable figures, Object recognition, Orientation, Past experience, Perception, Reversible figures, Shape recognition",
author = "Kihlstrom, {John F.} and Peterson, {Mary A.} and Mconkey, {Kevin M.} and Jacquelyn Cranney and Glisky, {Marth A.L.} and Rose, {Patricia M.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research reported here was supported by grant #MH-35856 from the National Institute of Mental Health to John F. Kihlstrom and grant #BNS-90-09100 from the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to Mary A. Peterson. Mary A. Peterson was supported by a grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR N00014-14-1-061) while writing this article. We thank Elsie Vezey for her assistance in preparing various preliminary versions of the AWK figure. We also owe a special debt to Amanda Barnier, Denis Burnham, Sandra Hejtmanek, and Suzanne Roche for their willingness to gather data for us. A preliminary report of this research was presented at the 2006 meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. Address correspondence about this article to John F. Kihlstrom?Department of ?sychology?MC 650?University of California, Berkeley, 3210 Tolman Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650 (e-mail: jfkihlstrom@berkeley.edu); or Mary A. ? eterson? Department of ?sychology?University of Arizona? Tucson, AZ 85721 (e-mail: mapeters@u.arizona.edu). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.",
year = "2018",
month = jun,
day = "1",
doi = "10.5406/amerjpsyc.131.2.0129",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "131",
pages = "129--139",
journal = "American Journal of Psychology",
issn = "0002-9556",
publisher = "University of Illinois Press",
number = "2",
}