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Direct linkWoods, Adam J.; Philbeck, John W.; Danoff, Jerome V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
D. R. Proffitt and colleagues (e. g., D. R. Proffitt, J. Stefanucci, T. Banton, & W. Epstein, 2003) have suggested that objects appear farther away if more effort is required to act upon them (e.g., by having to throw a ball). The authors attempted to replicate several findings supporting this view but found no effort-related effects in a variety…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception, Dimensional Preference
Peer reviewedLazzaro, Peter; Cook, Harold – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Investigates effects of perceptual salience and specific orientation values on 16 kindergarten and fourth-grade children executing a speeded sorting task. Kindergarten results supported the cognitive processing prediction that orientation sorting times would vary as a function of condition, but no differences were obtained for the fourth-grade…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Dimensional Preference, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
