Developmental changes in the effect of dimensional salience on the discriminability of object relations

Article Abstract:

Two experiments were conducted to examine three concerns about perceptual development in 5- and 10-year-old children and adults. These are the function of featural discriminability, the facilitatory function of identity relations and the function of salience in a task context for reducing the possibility of attention-switching between dimensions during perceptual processing. Findings were in agreement with Odom and Cook's differential-sensitivity concept of perceptual development. Results also indicated that salience effects in perceptual processing are present even when the observer is selectively noting a specific dimension.

Psychological aspects, Children, Perception, Perception (Psychology), Developmental psychology

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Influence of visual projection on young children's depictions of object proportions

Article Abstract:

Children, 5 and 6 year olds, are unwilling to forgo from the original proportions, but both groups happen to foreshorten line lengths, pointing to reduction in surface from vantage points. The results of study have important implications for local-solution theories of drawing, which suggest that the appearance of an object at a vantage point possibly have little to do with development.

Children's drawings

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What's in a shape? Children represent shape variability differently than adults when naming objects

Article Abstract:

Research describing the perception of shapes by children is presented. Particular attention is given to perceptual similarities of different shapes and generalization techniques children use to categorize objects. Comparisons between adult and infant shape perceptions are drawn.

Methods, Child development, Semantic differential technique, Rating scales (Social science research)

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