A professor in an online lecture I was watching referenced a study which he said showed that our ability as humans to detect objects within scenes (especially complex scenes) was very much connected with our familiarity to the objects in the scene.In particular, one of the images in the study was this one:He said that the study reported that if the subjects had never seen a dalmation before then they often failed to segment the picture accurately.
What study showed that humans can successfully detect objects within images once they are able to recognize those objects?
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