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Peer reviewedColombo, John; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1984
In three experiments, the effect of additional "contextual" elements on the discrimination of the orientation of linear and curvilinear segments was investigated with four-month-old infants. Results suggest that, regarding certain stimuli and techniques of measurement, surrounding contextual segments can aid the discrimination of linear…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Infant Behavior, Infants, Spatial Ability
Peer reviewedScher, Anat – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Forty five-year-olds compared two arms of an L-shaped figure on-axis or perpendicular to axis inside circles of different diameters. In making perceptual judgments about the relative length, the children tended to describe the on-axis line as longer. The context model of visual anomalies was supported. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary Education, Hypothesis Testing, Pictorial Stimuli
