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AttributePair-BasedVisualRecognitionandMemory MasahikoMorita1*,ShigemitsuMorokami2,HiromiMorita3 1DepartmentofIntelligentInteractionTechnology,GraduateSchoolofSystemsandInformationEngineering,UniversityofTsukuba,Tsukuba,Ibaraki,Japan,2Facultyof Letters,AichiShukutokuUniversity,Nagakute,Aichi,Japan,3GraduateSchoolofLibrary,InformationandMediaStudies,UniversityofTsukuba,Tsukuba,Ibaraki,Japan Abstract Background:Inthehumanvisualsystem,differentattributesofanobject,suchasshape,color,andmotion,areprocessed separately in different areas of the brain. This raises a fundamental question of how are these attributes integrated to produce a unified perception and a specific response. This ‘‘binding problem’’ is computationally difficult because all attributesareassumedtobeboundtogethertoformasingleobjectrepresentation.However,thereisnofirmevidenceto confirmthatsuchrepresentationsexistforgeneralobjects. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here we propose a paired-attribute model in which cognitive processes are based on multiplerepresentationsofpairedattributes.Inlinewiththemodel’sprediction,wefoundthatmultiattributestimulican produceanillusoryperceptionofamultiattributeobjectarisingfromerroneousintegrationofattributepairs,implyingthat object recognition is based on parallel perception of paired attributes. Moreover, in a change-detection task, a feature change in a single attribute frequently caused an illusory perception of change in another attribute, suggesting that multiplepairsofattributesarestoredinmemory. Conclusions/Significance:Thepaired-attributemodelcanaccountforsomenovelillusionsandcontroversialfindingson binocularrivalryandshort-termmemory.Ourresultssuggestthatmanycognitiveprocessesareperformedatthelevelof paired attributes rather than integrated objects, which greatly facilitates the binding problem and provides simpler solutionsforit. Citation:MoritaM,MorokamiS,MoritaH(2010)AttributePair-BasedVisualRecognitionandMemory.PLoSONE5(3):e9571.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.00