Experimental psychological research on infants' perceptual development using illusory figures

在本研究中，我们利用不同类型的视觉图像对婴儿的知觉发展进行了实验。在第一年，我们研究了1)扩张和收缩运动的知觉不对称性，2)模态完成和3)知觉透明度，并显示了什么年龄的婴儿可以识别每个知觉线索。我们在《婴儿行为与发展》的国际期刊上发表了扩张和收缩工作的结果，也发表在《感知》的模态和《感知》的透明度上。在这个研究项目的第二年，我们使用一个项目成员Kitaoka制作的刺激来研究1)运动透明度和2)颜色感应的知觉发展。我们将这些结果发表在知觉和婴幼儿发展的国际期刊上。在此基础上，我们进一步研究了1)婴儿运动刺激对颜色的感知，2)婴儿运动信息对图形整合的认知，以及3)图像深度线索的感知发展。这些研究论文将发表在国际期刊《婴儿行为与发展》、《实验心理学》和《视觉研究》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.