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Tag: greeble

Recognitions – part 3 – Tarr’s Fribbles, Yadgits, and such

April 23, 2012 Martin Gardiner

Professor Michael J. Tarr, Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Co-Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) was co-developer of The Greeble (see  part 2). His laboratory  t a r r l a b  not only provides an on-line downloadable zip-based resource of the entire Greeble family (both symmetric and asymmetric) but also : […]

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Recognitions – part 2 – Recognizing a Greeble and Its Parts

April 20, 2012 Martin Gardiner

Inspired, in part, by Tanaka and Farah’s 1993 work on people’s ability (or not) to recognise faces with noses in the wrong place (see  part 1) professors Isabel Gauthier and Michael J. Tarr decided to refine the research by creating their own ‘families’ of recognisable non-face entities – which they called ‘Greebles’. A Greeble has […]

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