Experimental psychological research on infants' perceptual development using illusory figures

在本研究中，我们利用各种视觉图像对婴儿的知觉发展进行了实验研究。在第一年，我们研究了婴儿1)扩张和收缩运动的知觉不对称，2)无节律完成和3)知觉透明，并显示了多大年龄的婴儿可以识别每个知觉线索。我们在《婴儿行为与发育》国际期刊上发表了关于扩张和收缩的研究结果，其中一项发表在《知觉》上，另一篇发表在《知觉》上。在本研究项目的第二年，我们使用项目成员之一Kitaoka的刺激，考察了1)运动透明度和2)颜色诱导的知觉发展。我们在《知觉》和《婴幼儿发展》国际期刊上发表了这些结果。并从1)婴幼儿运动刺激的颜色知觉，2)婴幼儿运动信息的图形整合，3)图画深度线索的知觉发展三个方面进行了研究，直到本研究项目期末，2008年3月。这些研究的论文将发表在国际婴儿行为和发育杂志、实验心理学和视觉研究杂志上。

In this research, we conducted experiments on infants' perceptual development using various kinds of visual images. In first year, we investigated 1) perceptual asymmetry of expansion and contraction motion, 2) amodal completion and 3) perceptual transparency in infants and showed what age of infants can recognize each perceptual cue. We published the result of expansion and contraction works in the international journal of Infant Behaviour and Development, amodal one in Perception and transparency one in Perception, too. In second year of this research project, we investigated perceptual development of 1) motion transparency and 2) color induction using the stimuli made by one of project member, Kitaoka. We published these results in the international journals of Perception and Infant and Child Development. And we progressed the researches of 1) perception of color from motion stimuli in infants, 2) figure integration from motion information in infants and 3) perceptual development of pictorial depth cue until the end of this research project term, March 2008. Papers of these researches will appear in the international journal of Infant Behaviour and Development, Journal of Experimental Psychology and Vision Research.