Chapter Six
The information content of scene categories
Michelle R. Greene* Department of Psychology, Program in Neuroscience, Bates College, Lewiston, ME, United States* Corresponding author: email address: mgreene2@bates.edu
Abstract
Visual scenes, like other natural kinds, have a rich category structure. How do observers use this structure to aid perception? In this chapter, I will examine the link between scene category labels and perceptual processes. Scenes in the same category tend to share a number of features that can help the observer classify the scene. However, this process is bi-directional: given a scene label, observers are better able to classify visual content. Altogether, these results illustrate that visual perception and semantic ...
