Preference for Impossible Figures in 4-Month-Olds

Autor/in	Shuwairi, Sarah M.
Titel	Preference for Impossible Figures in 4-Month-Olds
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104 (2009) 1, S.115-123 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2008.10.001
Schlagwörter	Infants; Cues; Visual Discrimination; Visual Stimuli; Dimensional Preference; Infant Behavior; Perceptual Development; Experiments + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Stichwort; Wahrnehmungsentwicklung; Erprobung
Abstract	Can infants use interposition and line junction cues to infer three-dimensional (3D) structure? Previous work has shown that in a task that required 4-month-olds to discriminate between static two-dimensional (2D) pictures of possible and impossible cubes, infants exhibited a spontaneous preference for displays of the impossible cube but left open the question of whether they did so on the basis of purely local "critical regions" or whether they were able to employ more global clues. Here infants were presented with possible and impossible cubes in which the strictly local cues that could have derived from exterior binding contours were deleted. Results showed that infants were still able to discriminate possible cubes from impossible cubes, suggesting that longer looking infants are sensitive to global properties and that the capacity to integrate pictorial information to perceive aspects of global 3D shape may develop earlier than demonstrated previously using reaching tasks. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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