Previous studies show that following disorientation children use the geometry of an enclosed space to locate an object hidden in one of the corners [e.g. (Harmer, L., & Spelke, E. (1996). Modularity and development: A case of spatial reorientation. "Cognition, 61," 195-232)]. These studies have used a disorientation procedure that involves…

Four experiments investigated how readily infants achieve perceptual organization by lightness and form similarity. Infants were (a) familiarized with elements that could be organized into rows or columns on the basis of lightness or form similarity and tested with vertical versus horizontal bars depicting the familiar versus novel organization or…

This study was designed to determine whether the effectiveness of stimulus intensity declines with age. The results indicated that infants 10 weeks and younger responded on the basis of size, while infants between 10 and 24 weeks looked more at a bull's-eye than at a striped pattern regardless of size. (JMB)

Three experiments investigated the ability of seven-month-olds to categorize the facial expressions of happiness, fear, and surprise, which were depicted by degrees of intensity. Happiness could be distinguished in mild and extreme forms, but fear was difficult to discriminate from happiness or surprise. (SKC)

Studied 2 1/2- to 6-year-old children's judgments of age category and relative age of stimulus faces, using a paired-comparison task. Faces showed variations in craniofacial profile shape, frontal face feature vertical placement, and facial wrinkling. (Author/NH)

In a study involving 48 kindergarten children, tests using tachistoscopic exposures, divided form boards, and grooved pegboards, all showed significant correlations with readiness. Results of the Auditory-Visual Integration Test were not significant at the kindergarten level. Findings suggest that individuals with good perceptual skills are likely…

Ten kindergarteners with no known communication problems were given 10 sets of the "Repetition Task," a procedure used to assess auditory perception, over a span of 5 days. Results suggest the possibility that differences between dysphasic and normal children on the "Repetition Task" may result from differences in perceptual learning. (Author/CL)

Concludes that there is little or no relationship between creativity and perception variables and relates conclusions to art education. (This report is part of a larger study in Creativity and Perceptual Learning in Art, done under a U.S.O.E. grant.) (DR)

To test whether six-month-old infants recognize the auditory similarity of speech sounds sharing a value on a phonetic-feature dimension, an operant head turn procedure was used. Results indicated that the performance of infants trained on phonetically related speech sounds was far superior to that of infants in the nonphonetic control group.…

Four experiments were conducted to investigate the development of visual accommodation in one- to three-month-old infants. Accommodation responses and pupil diameters were measured at various stimulus distances. Results suggest that changes in depth of focus in the first three months are largely responsible for growth in accommodation. (Author/SS)

Three studies explored preschoolers' assertions that objects come closer together when part of the distance between them is occluded. Findings indicated that preschoolers do not appear to change the geometries they use to represent space, but do show increases in the generality and explicitness with which they map spatial knowledge onto spatial…

Explores how a dyadic understanding of perception cancels the validity it might have as a model for the linguistic process. Discusses commonly misunderstood exhibits in the gallery of perception studies--the duck-rabbit and Magritte's pipe. (RS)

Perception training can be an integral part of management development programs. These games can help trainees understand what perception is, how it works, and how it applies in the workplace. (JOW)