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The Figural Simplicity of Parallel Lines
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Abravanel, Eugene – Child Development, 1977
The figural simplicity or salience of parallel lines was studied in 3- and 4-year-olds by means of a figural matching procedure where parallelism was a basis for judging similarity. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Pattern Recognition, Perceptual Development, Preschool Education
Complexity Levels, Habituation, and Individual Differences in Early Infancy
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Greenberg, David J.; And Others – Child Development, 1973
To demonstrate a relationship between rate of habituation and complexity levels, 11-week-old infants (N=51) were each given a rate-of-habituation and complexity-level test. Rapid habituators looked longer at complex patterns. Irregular habituators responded randomly to tests or resembled slow habituators in terms of complexity preferred. (ST)
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Difficulty Level, Infants
Visual Perception of Numerosity in Infancy.
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van Loosbroek, Erik; Smitsman, Ad. W. – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Infants were tested at 5, 8, and 13 months of age for numerosity perception. Subjects observed displayed figures on a screen moving at constant speed with irregular trajectories and occasional occlusions. Results demonstrated that discrimination of units, and not of characteristic patterns, underlies numerosity perception. (BC)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Pattern Recognition
Do Children Find Complex Patterns Interesting or Pleasing?
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Aitken, P. P.; Hutt, Corinne – Child Development, 1974
Children, ages 3 to 10 were asked to rank random polygons, which differed in complexity according to interestingness and pleasingness. Complexity preferences varied with age. (ST)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Interest Research, Pattern Recognition
The Human Face: A View From the Infant's Eye.
Souther, Arthur F.; Banks, Martin S. – 1979
This study explores the reason why very young infants are unable to respond differentially to faces and the cause for developmental changes in infant face perception by age 3 months. Linear systems analysis (LSA) and the contrast sensitivity function (CSF) were used to estimate the facial pattern information available to 1- and 3-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Pattern Recognition, Perceptual Development, Recognition (Psychology)
Perceiving Layout without Effective Schemas.
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Klopfer, Dale S. – 1983
The processing of mental structures in perception appears to be serial, in that viewers can fill in missing parts from an impoverished stimulus following a top down process. To investigate the effects of unfamiliarity, complexity, and legibility on object and layout perception of unfamiliar stimuli, ten subjects were shown one of four ribbon…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Pattern Recognition, Perception
Visual Preferences of Down's Syndrome and Normal Infants
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Fantz, Robert L.; Miranda, Simon B. – Child Development, 1973
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Downs Syndrome
Perceptual Sensitivity to Dimensional and Similarity Relations in Free and Rule-Governed Classifications.
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Cook, Gregory L.; Odom, Richard D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1988
Two experiments investigated perceptual primacy of dimensional and similarity relations in stimulus classifications of younger and older subjects. Results support a differential-sensitivity view of perceptual development which asserts that individuals at all ages primarily perceive and use separate relations. (RWB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Comparative Testing, Early Childhood Education