Here, we examined further the nature of object information that is available for general and specific categorisations.
Human observers can recognise objects at different scales.
The task was to decide whether two sequentially presented animals were the same, at a general or a specific level. Stimuli were presented at a large, or a small scale. We hypothesised that critical information for specific categorisations would be removed from small-scale objects. Results indicate that similarity judgments were less accurate when the two animals were presented at a small scale for specific judgments. This difference, however, was not observed for judgments at a more general level of categorisation.