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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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Dubova, Marina; Goldstone, Robert L. – Cognitive Science, 2021
We explore different ways in which the human visual system can adapt for perceiving and categorizing the environment. There are various accounts of supervised (categorical) and unsupervised perceptual learning, and different perspectives on the functional relationship between perception and categorization. We suggest that common experimental…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Perceptual Development, Correlation, Classification
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Redford, Joshua S. – Psychological Record, 2010
Recently, Redford (2010) found that monkeys seemed to exert metacognitive control in a category-learning paradigm. Specifically, they selected more trials to view as the difficulty of the category-learning task increased. However, category-learning difficulty was determined by manipulating the family resemblance across the to-be-learned exemplars.…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Animals, Metacognition, Perceptual Development
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Davidoff, Jules; Goldstein, Julie; Roberson, Debi – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
We respond to the commentary of Franklin, Wright, and Davies ("Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102", 239-245 [2009]) by returning to the simple contrast between nature and nurture. We find no evidence from the toddler data that makes us revise our ideas that color categories are learned and never innate. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Nature Nurture Controversy, Toddlers, Color
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de Haan, Michelle; Nelson, Charles A. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Used event-related potentials to determine whether infants show differences in spatial and temporal characteristics of brain activation during face and object recognition. Found that infants' experience with specific examples within categories and their general category knowledge influenced the neural correlates of visual processing. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Brain, Classification, Infants, Perceptual Development
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Younger, Barbara – Child Development, 1992
Tested 7 and 10 month olds for perception of correlations among facial features. After habituation to faces displaying a pattern of correlation, 10 month olds generalized to a novel face that preserved the pattern of correlation but showed increased attention to a novel face that violated the pattern. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Infants, Perceptual Development
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Quinn, Paul C.; Eimas, Peter D.; Tarr, Michael – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Four experiments utilizing the familiarization-novelty preference procedure examined whether 3- and 4-month-olds could form categorical representations for cats versus dogs from the perceptual information available in silhouettes. Findings indicated that general shape or external contour information centered about the head was sufficient for…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1983
Researched the possibility that four- to six-year-old children are competent and systematic classifiers, at least making classifications by overall similarity. In three experiments, young children classified various sets of multidimensional stimuli that could be organized into catagories by overall similarity or by diminsional attributes. Children…
Descriptors: Classification, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten Children, Perceptual Development
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Oakes, Lisa M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Infants were familiarized with plastic animals from one of two categories (land or sea) that were judged similar or variable by adults. Infants were then tested with novel animals from the same or a different category. Thirteen-month-olds in the similar familiarization condition dishabituated to novel animals of a different category and, to a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Animals, Classification, Infants
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Smith, Linda B.; Kemler, Deborah G. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Two studies explored the hypothesis that young children perceive integrally some stimuli that older children perceive separably. In both experiments, kindergarten, second- and fifth-grade children were required to classify sets of stimuli that varied in size and brightness. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
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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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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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Schwarzer, Gudrun – Child Development, 2000
Examined degree to which analytic and holistic modes of processing play a role in children's and adults' categorization of faces. Found a developmental trend from analytic to holistic processing and an effect of face inversion with increasing age. Seven-year-olds processed faces comparably to nonfacial visual stimuli, whereas a growing proportion…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Classification
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Quinn, Paul C.; Eimas, Peter D. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1986
Reviews the research literature on the abilities of infants to categorize visual information on dot patterns; schematic faces; hue; and orientation. (HOD)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology
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Sloutsky, Vladimir M.; Napolitano, Amanda C. – Child Development, 2003
Four experiments tested the hypothesis that the importance of linguistic labels for young children's conceptual organization stems from a privileged processing status of auditory input over visual input. Findings indicated that when auditory and visual stimuli were presented separately, 4-year-olds were likely to process both kinds of stimuli,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Classification, Cognitive Processes
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