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Yonas, Albert; And Others – Child Development, 1987
A test for sensitivity to binocular disparity and a shape perception test were administered to four-month-olds. Results indicated that disparity-sensitive infants could perceive three-dimensional-object shape from kinetic and binocular depth information. (PCB)
Descriptors: Depth Perception, Dimensional Preference, Eye Fixations, Infants
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Bertenthal, Bennett I.; Longo, Matthew R.; Kenny, Sarah – Child Development, 2007
The perceived spatiotemporal continuity of objects depends on the way they appear and disappear as they move in the spatial layout. This study investigated whether infants' predictive tracking of a briefly occluded object is sensitive to the manner by which the object disappears and reappears. Five-, 7-, and 9-month-old infants were shown a ball…
Descriptors: Kinetics, Infants, Visual Perception, Object Permanence
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Kaiser, Mary Kister; Proffitt, Dennis R. – Child Development, 1984
Examines whether kindergarteners, second-graders, fourth-graders, and adults can extract relative weight information from observing collisions and lifting events, and if they can judge whether or not collisions are momentum-conserving. Subjects saw either videotapes of events or sequences of static images; younger children appeared to be…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Physics), Adults, Age Differences, Children