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Rodríguez, Gabriel; Angulo, Rocío – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2014
An experiment with human participants established a novel procedure to assess perceptual learning with tactile stimuli. Participants received unsupervised exposure to two sandpaper surfaces differing in roughness (A and B). The ability of the participants to discriminate between the stimuli was subsequently assessed on a same/different test. It…
Descriptors: Experimental Psychology, Perceptual Motor Learning, Perceptual Development, Tactual Perception
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Simpson, Andrew; Riggs, Kevin J. – Infant and Child Development, 2009
Understanding how responses become prepotent is essential for understanding when inhibitory control is needed in everyday behaviour. We investigated prepotency in the grass-snow task--in which a child points to a green card when the experimenter says "snow" and a white card when the experimenter says "grass". Experiment 1 (n =…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Child Behavior, Perceptual Development, Neuropsychology