Here is the “outro” sequence from Thunderbirds.

Can you identify the vehicle from the opening detail shot?

I will choose a fixed set of objects (e.g. chair, key, cat, person, Volkswagen) and look at what their recognition trigger features are.

I will use a number of pictures from classic recognition tests and test-sets.

Please  http://www.cogsci.nl/stimulus-sets for examples and overview.

Here is one of the stimulus sets from the classic 1962 study:

 

 

Looking at rubbish is hard. It’s hard to discriminate actual object. Scale is tricky. There will be more rubbish soon..