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In one experiment, Cerella (1980) trained pigeons to
discriminate intact drawings of Charlie Brown from normal drawings of other
Peanuts characters. Then, Cerella reorganized Charlie Brown by altering the
relations between the head, torso, and legs. He discovered that the pigeons
responded to scrambled versions of Charlie Brown in the same manner as the
original, intact drawings. Therefore, he concluded that the pigeon must be
insensitive to global organizational properties of objects. Insensitivity to
global object properties is one attribute of a particulate perceiver.
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