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When subjects see the novel
clay object depicted at left
rotated 90 degrees (shown at
right), their recognition of it as
the same object is little better
than chance.
In our laboratory when novel
three-dimensional objects
(such as that pictured at left)
are seen rotated by 90 degrees
about their vertical axis,
recognition is little better than
chance. Failure of recognition
here can be regarded as failure
of shape constancy. However,
the matter is still controversial
and some research points in
the other direction. Of course
in daily life we generally do
recognize objects from virtually
any perspective; the question is
why we doΓÇöΓÇôBecause we have
seen them from many angles
and thus built up a three-
dimensional representation in
our minds, or because we
recognize some distinct part
which leads on to recognition
of the entire object? This line
of research is just in its
infancy.