Infants' responsiveness to line junctions in curved objects
Infants' responsiveness to line junctions in curved objects
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DOI:
10.1006/jecp.1999.2488
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发表时间:
1999-03-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
Kavsek, MJ
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作者:
Kavsek, MJ
Several empirical studies demonstrate that infants under 6-7 months of age are unable to extract static-monocular depth information from their environment. The aim of this study was to extend these findings by using a three-dimensional structure indicated by curved Y junctions. Infants 5 and 8 months of age were habituated to the line drawing of a cylinder. During test trials, the infants viewed two displays, one in which a surface marking had been deleted from the habituation figure and one in which an edge had been erased. An ANOVA revealed that the I-month-ord subjects looked significantly longer at the dishabituation display lacking the edge, whereas the 5-month-olds did not. The results provide evidence that 8-month-old infants distinguish between lines indicating edges and lines indicating markings and that they are able to use line junctions to perceive line drawings as depictions of three-dimensional objects in the picture plane. (C) 1999 Academic Press.