Viewing a real-world scene (picture) from several perspectives enhanced recognition of 16 and 36 college students of that scene from a new perspective but reduced detection of the new perspective as such. The accuracy of recognition for mirror-image transformed scenes declined slowly in comparison to the accuracy of detecting the transformed scenes as such. These findings support the notion that prototypes are abstracted from real-world scenes.
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