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Kalagher, Hilary; Jones, Susan S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Adults vary their haptic exploratory behavior reliably with variation both in the sensory input and in the task goals. Little is known about the development of these connections between perceptual goals and exploratory behaviors. A total of 36 children ages 3, 4, and 5 years and 20 adults completed a haptic intramodal match-to-sample task.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Development, Young Children, Adults
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Gao, Xiaoqing; Maurer, Daphne; Nishimura, Mayu – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
We explored the perceptual structure of facial expressions of six basic emotions, varying systematically in intensity, in adults and children aged 7 and 14 years. Multidimensional scaling suggested that three- or four-dimensional structures were optimal for all groups. Two groups of adults demonstrated nearly identical structure, which had…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Models, Multidimensional Scaling, Children
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Johnson, Scott P.; Bremner, J. Gavin; Slater, Alan M.; Mason, Uschi C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Three experiments investigated whether 4-month-olds would attend to and utilize the global configuration ("good form") of a partly occluded, moving object to perceive its unit and coherence behind the occluder. Results indicated that curvature per se provided information in support of completion, in addition to global configuration and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Habituation, Infant Behavior
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Webb, Sara J.; Nelson, Charles A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Used event-related potentials to novel and primed upright and inverted faces to examine evidence of repetition priming in 6-month-olds. Found that repeated faces demonstrated greater negativity than novel faces, and upright faces demonstrated greater negativity than inverted faces. Comparisons with adults tested in a similar experiment support the…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Hynd, George W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1979
The magnitude of the dichotic right-ear advantage was assessed in 48 normal and 48 learning-disabled children representing an age range of approximately five years. (MP)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cerebral Dominance, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition
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Schwarzer, Gudrun; Massaro, Dominic W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Two experiments studied whether and how 5-year-olds integrate single facial features to identify faces. Results indicated that children could evaluate and integrate information from eye and mouth features to identify a face when salience of features was varied. A weighted Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception fit better than a Single Channel Model,…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Models
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Ward, Thomas B.; Vela, Edward – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes two studies that demonstrate young children's perception of color materials differs from that of adults in two ways: (1) the stimulus dimensions of hue, chroma, and value appear to result in somewhat more separable perception for young children than for adults, and (2) the perceived similarities the color materials are not the same for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, College Students, Color
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Massaro, Dominic W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Reports on three experiments that investigated why young children's perceptions of bimodal speech are less influenced by the visual component of speech than adults' perceptions are. Results argue in favor of the explanation that children are poorer lipreaders than adults. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Comparative Analysis, Lipreading
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Freire, Alejo; Lee, Kang – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Tested in two studies 4- to 7-year-olds' face recognition by manipulating the faces' configural and featural information. Found that even with only a single 5-second exposure, most children could use configural and featural cues to make identity judgments. Repeated exposure and feedback improved others' performance. Even proficient memories were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
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Quinn, Paul C.; Schyns, Philippe G.; Goldstone, Robert L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
The relation between perceptual organization and categorization processes in 3- and 4-month-olds was explored. The question was whether an invariant part abstracted during category learning could interfere with Gestalt organizational processes. A 2003 study by Quinn and Schyns had reported that an initial category familiarization experience in…
Descriptors: Perceptual Development, Classification, Infants, Infant Behavior
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Schmidt, Constance R.; Schmidt, Stephen R. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes two experiments that investigated the effects of two thematic retrieval cues on the types of information recalled from short stories by elementary school children and adults. Shows adults and fourth graders, but not younger children, spontaneously generated thematic retrieval plans which enabled them to remember information from both…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
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Arnold, Kevin D.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Compares kindergartners' and third and sixth graders' understanding of an illusion reported by the philosopher John Locke, in which two hands simultaneously experience two different temperatures from a container of water at one temperature. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation
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Cohen, Michelle E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes two experiments that examined whether the amplitude of the human eyeblink by a mild tap between the eyebrows can be increased if a brief tone is presented simultaneously with the tap and how these effects change from newborn infants to adults. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Stimuli, Behavior Modification
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Jager, Stephan; Wilkening, Friedrich – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Two experiments examined developmental changes in reasoning about intensive quantities--predicting mixture intensity of pairs of liquids with different intensities of red color. Results showed that cognitive averaging in this domain developed late and slowly. Predominating up to 12 years was an extensivity bias, a strong tendency to use rules that…
Descriptors: Addition, Adults, Age Differences, Bias
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Chromiak, Walter; Weisberg, Robert W. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1981
Adults' ability to track a moving target was examined in two experiments in order to compare their performance with that of very young infants. Results indicated that (1) adults'"overshoot" errors resembled those reported for young infants; and (2) adults had problems tracking a moving target which unexpectedly changed direction. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Error Patterns