ABSTRACT
This study compared participants’ target recognition performance after training with three different views of target stimuli. In experiment 1 target recognition training was conducted using whole-views or both whole- and part-views of armoured vehicles. Participants then completed a whole-view target recognition test. Participants’ target recognition time and accuracy were measured. Recognition times for both training conditions were similar. However, the whole-view group committed significantly fewer target identification errors than the both-views group at the visual ranges of 104, 146, and 264 metres. In experiment 2, each picture was presented one at a time and a part-view group was added. The mean recognition times of the whole-view and the both-views groups were significantly better than that of the part-view only group. There was an interaction effect between visual ranges and vehicle images. There was no statistically significant difference in accuracy among the three groups except at the 264 metre visual range, where the part-view group committed more errors than the other groups. These results suggest that target recognition training for armoured vehicle images should use only whole-view images at different visual ranges.
