Effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion on children’s perception and grasping
Effects of the Ebbinghaus illusion on children’s perception and grasping
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艾宾浩斯错觉对儿童感知和抓握的影响
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发表时间:
2008
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2
通讯作者:
G. Schwarzer
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作者:
Thomas Duemmler;V. Franz;Bianca Jovanovic;G. Schwarzer
We investigated the development of the Ebbinghaus illusion in children’s perception and grasping. A previous study (Hanisch et al. 2001) had reported negative illusion effects on 5- to 12-year-olds’ grasping as compared to their perception. We attempted to replicate this finding and to test different hypotheses based on a direct influence of the context elements on the trajectories of the fingers which could explain this reversal of the illusion effects. For 5- to 7- and 9- to 11-year-olds we observed the classical illusion effects in perception. Illusion effects were perfectly similar for perception and grasping in 9- to 11-year-olds, while there was a non-significant trend toward smaller illusion effects in grasping for the 5- to 7-year-olds. This could be due to a slightly different effect of the illusion on younger children’s grasping. However, it seems clear that there are no qualitative changes, as a reversal of the illusion effects in grasping of younger children. Finally, we show that our grasping data conform well to the motor literature for children’s grasping, thereby strengthening our conclusions.