Bob Teghtsoonian and
George Robinson are studying how people perceive stimuli that result from morphing one figure into another. Almost nonexistant in the natural world, morphed images provide a tool we use to try to answer the following questions:
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How do we distinguish similar figures?
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How do we impose categories on what is really an unbroken continuum?
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How does previous training and experience affect the way we impose these categories?
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How is our tendency to categorize affected by the number of features distinguishing the endpoints of the morphed sequence?
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Do we treat abstract morphs differently from those made from familiar objects, like faces?
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Can exposure to morphed sequences affect our perception of the stimuli and perhaps even our social attitudes?
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