I dont think the study can be used to draw the conclusions that the article is trying to draw. The study presents new objects which are derived from skeletons f

I dont think the study can be used to draw the conclusions that the article is trying to draw. The study presents new objects which are derived from skeletons for people to learn and identify. IMO people learn differently in short term vs long term. Short term, we try to reduce the dimensionality of the input to things we can hold in working memory. In this study that would be the skeleton of the object. That doesnt mean that that pattern holds up for long term learning (which is mostly how we visually identify things, because we've seen them many times already). The main reason I bring this up is because it seems to be in direct contrast with studies which show the opposite (i.e. that humans do operate like machines in identifying objects). That study was done by comparing the brain regions which activated when the person was exposed to visual input and found a consistent location which was activated due to seeing a horizontal / vertical line.