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Skelton, Alice E.; Maule, John; Franklin, Anna – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
A remarkable amount of perceptual development occurs in the first year after birth. In this article, we spotlight the case of color perception. We outline how within just 6 months, infants go from very limited detection of color as newborns to a more sophisticated perception of color that enables them to make sense of objects and the world around…
Descriptors: Infants, Visual Perception, Perceptual Development, Color
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Clifford, Alexandra; Franklin, Anna; Holmes, Amanda; Drivonikou, Vicky G.; Ozgen, Emre; Davies, Ian R. L. – Brain and Cognition, 2012
Category training can induce category effects, whereby color discrimination of stimuli spanning a newly learned category boundary is enhanced relative to equivalently spaced stimuli from within the newly learned category (e.g., categorical perception). However, the underlying mechanisms of these acquired category effects are not fully understood.…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Stimuli, Classification, Correlation
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Clifford, Alexandra; Franklin, Anna; Davies, Ian R. L.; Holmes, Amanda – Brain and Cognition, 2009
The origin of color categories has been debated by psychologists, linguists and cognitive scientists for many decades. Here, we present the first electrophysiological evidence for categorical responding to color before color terms are acquired. Event-related potentials were recorded on a visual oddball task in 7-month old infants. Infants were…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Psychologists, Infants, Cognitive Processes
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Franklin, Anna; Wright, Oliver; Davies, Ian R. L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
We comment on Goldstein, Davidoff, and Roberson's replication and extension ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102", 219-238 [2009]) of our study of the effect of toddlers' color term knowledge on their categorical perception (CP) of color ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90", 114-141 [2005]). First, we discuss how best to…
Descriptors: Investigations, Toddlers, Word Recognition, Child Psychology
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Daoutis, Christine A.; Franklin, Anna; Riddett, Amy; Clifford, Alexandra; Davies, Ian R. L. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
In adults, visual search for a colour target is facilitated if the target and distractors fall in different colour categories (e.g. Daoutis, Pilling, & Davies, in press). The present study explored category effects in children's colour search. The relationship between linguistic colour categories and perceptual categories was addressed by…
Descriptors: Color, Visual Perception, Young Children, Classification