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O'Hearn, Kirsten; Franconeri, Steven; Wright, Catherine; Minshew, Nancy; Luna, Beatriz – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Evidence suggests that people with autism rely less on holistic visual information than typical adults. The current studies examine this by investigating core visual processes that contribute to holistic processing--namely, individuation and element grouping--and how they develop in participants with autism and typically developing (TD)…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Visual Stimuli
Salvin, Hannah E.; McGreevy, Paul D.; Sachdev, Perminder S.; Valenzuela, Michael J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Aged dogs exhibit a spectrum of cognitive abilities including a syndrome similar to Alzheimer's disease. A major impediment to research so far has been the lack of a quick and accurate test of visuospatial memory appropriate for community-based animals. We therefore report on the development and validation of the Canine Sand Maze. A 4.5-m-diameter…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Memory, Rewards, Cognitive Ability
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Cheung, Olivia S.; Gauthier, Isabel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Faces and objects of expertise compete for early perceptual processes and holistic processing resources (Gauthier, Curran, Curby, & Collins, 2003). Here, we examined the nature of interference on holistic face processing in working memory by comparing how various types of loads affect selective attention to parts of face composites. In dual…
Descriptors: Attention, Short Term Memory, Cognitive Processes, Experimental Psychology
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Kuefner, Dana; Cassia, Viola Macchi; Picozzi, Marta; Bricolo, Emanuela – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
The current study provides evidence for the existence of an other-age effect (OAE), analogous to the well-documented other-race effect. Experiments 1 and 2 demonstrate that adults are better at recognizing adult faces compared with faces of newborns and children. Results from Experiment 3 indicate that the OAE obtained with child faces can be…
Descriptors: Neonates, Visual Perception, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Processes
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Gredeback, Gustaf; von Hofsten, Claes – Infancy, 2004
Infants' ability to track temporarily occluded objects that moved on circular trajectories was investigated in 20 infants using a longitudinal design. They were first seen at 6 months and then every 2nd month until the end of their 1st year. Infants were presented with occlusion events covering 20% of the target's trajectory (effective occlusion…
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Eye Movements, Age Differences
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Guajardo, Jose J.; Woodward, Amanda L. – Infancy, 2004
Three studies investigated the role of surface attributes in infants' identification of agents, using a habituation paradigm designed to tap infants' interpretation of grasping as goal directed (Woodward, 1998). When they viewed a bare human hand grasping objects, 7- and 12-month-old infants focused on the relation between the hand and its goal.…
Descriptors: Infants, Habituation, Cognitive Processes, Visual Stimuli
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Brainerd, C. J. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2004
The aim of this article is to introduce readers to an alternative way of applying U-shaped functions to understand development, especially cognitive development. In classical developmental applications, age is the abscissa; that is, in the fundamental equation B = f(A), some behavioral variable (B) plots as a U-shaped or inverted U-shaped function…
Descriptors: Infants, Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition