?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Learning+an+Artist's+Style%3A+Just+What+Does+a+Pigeon+See+in+a+Picasso%3F&rft.creator=Vokey%2C+John+R&rft.creator=Tangen%2C+Jason+M&rft.subject=Animal+Cognition&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Comparative+Psychology&rft.subject=Neural+Modelling&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Judgments+of+style+in+art%2C+music%2C+and+literature+are+commonplace%2C+although+the+mechanisms+providing+for+this+structural+sensitivity+are+not+well+understood.++Watanabe%2C+Sakamoto%2C+and+Wakita+(1995)+showed+that+pigeons+trained+to+discriminate+colour+slides+of+paintings+of+Picasso+from+those+of+Monet+could+generalise+this+discrimination+not+only+to+new+paintings+of+Picasso+and+Monet%2C+but+also+to+paintings+of+other+cubist+and+impressionist+painters.++These+results+suggest+that+the+bases+for+such+judgments+of+artistic+style+may+be+simpler+than+normally+thought.++This+tacit+sensitivity+to+artistic+style+is+explored+in+terms+of+a+simple+PCA+network+model+applied+to+pixel-maps+of+the+paintings.++The+eigenvectors+obtained+from+the+singular+value+decomposition+of+sets+of+these+pixel-maps+provide+for+descriptions+of+the+stimuli+in+terms+of+visual+%C2%93macro-features%C2%94.++These+macro-features+provide+a+simple+basis+not+only+for+recognising+previously-experienced+paintings%2C+but+for+the+successful+discrimination+of+novel+paintings+into+various+style+categories.++A+summary+of+simulations+of+the+performance+of+Watanabe+et+al.%C2%92s+pigeons+using+precisely+the+same+stimuli+and+tasks+is+provided.++The+results+suggest+that+the+eigen-decomposition+is+a+necessary+first-step%2C+and+that+the+bases+for+judgments+of+style+may+indeed+be+quite+simple.&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Conference+Poster&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2125%2F3%2Fposter.pdf&rft.identifier=++Vokey%2C+John+R+and+Tangen%2C+Jason+M++(2001)+Learning+an+Artist's+Style%3A+Just+What+Does+a+Pigeon+See+in+a+Picasso%3F++%5BConference+Poster%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F2125%2F