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Johnson, Scott P.; Mason, Uschi – Child Development, 2002
Examined 2-month-old infants' perception of sparse random-dot displays depicting an illusory shape against a background in three experiments in which background texture, luminance cues, and relative motion information were added or deleted. Found that infants preferred novel stimuli in each condition, revealing an early capacity to perceive shape…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Infants, Kinesthetic Perception, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
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Rakover, Sam S.; Cahlon, Baruch – Cognitive Psychology, 1989
A technique and mathematical model--the "Catch Model"--for identifying a face previously seen are presented. Three experiments, involving a total of 38 American and 30 Israeli college students, supported the model for identification of a target face. Practical implications are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Facial Expressions, Foreign Countries, Identification
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Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Hunt, Dennis – 1976
Individual differences in perceptual information processing were tested using 327 ten year old children, with verbal tasks representing successive information processing and spatial tasks representing simultaneous information processing. Three sets of tasks, (1) visual/reconstruction (V/R), (2) visual/verbal (V/VL), and (3) verbal/reconstruction…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Individual Characteristics