TY - JOUR
T1 - A developmental approach to the study of shape processing
AU - Girgus, Joan S.
N1 - Funding Information:
‘This research was submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. The author thanks Julian Hochberg for his assistance in all phases of the research process, and Stanley Coren for his critical reading of the manuscript. ‘The author’s mailing address is as follows: Dr. Joan S. Girgus, Department of Psychology, The City College of the C.U.N.Y., Convent Avenue and 138th Street, New York 10031. a Most of this research was conducted while the author was supported by National Institutes of Mental Health Predoctoral Fellowship l-Fl-MH-36, 924-01 (PS). Additional support was provided by NSF-GB-5270.
PY - 1973/10
Y1 - 1973/10
N2 - Young children show deficits in shape recognition under piecemeal presentation (i.e., sequential, aperture-viewing) conditions for forms that they can recognize accurately under free-viewing conditions. Two factors that differentiate between these two situations are: (1) S can look at each view more than once in the free-viewing but not in the previously used aperture-viewing situations, and (2) the amount of the shape visible per view may not have been the Ss' preferred unit for processing. The experiment reported here uses Ss, aged 4.7-10.7 years, to explore the relative contributions of these factors. Both increasing the number of "looks" per view and the amount of shape available per view increased the number of correct recognitions at all ages. It seems likely that both of these factors are often involved in accurate shape processing.
AB - Young children show deficits in shape recognition under piecemeal presentation (i.e., sequential, aperture-viewing) conditions for forms that they can recognize accurately under free-viewing conditions. Two factors that differentiate between these two situations are: (1) S can look at each view more than once in the free-viewing but not in the previously used aperture-viewing situations, and (2) the amount of the shape visible per view may not have been the Ss' preferred unit for processing. The experiment reported here uses Ss, aged 4.7-10.7 years, to explore the relative contributions of these factors. Both increasing the number of "looks" per view and the amount of shape available per view increased the number of correct recognitions at all ages. It seems likely that both of these factors are often involved in accurate shape processing.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-0965(73)90173-2
DO - 10.1016/0022-0965(73)90173-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 4773591
AN - SCOPUS:0015908747
SN - 0022-0965
VL - 16
SP - 363
EP - 374
JO - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
IS - 2
ER -