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Mondloch, Catherine J.; Segalowitz, Sidney J.; Lewis, Terri L.; Dywan, Jane; Le Grand, Richard; Maurer, Daphne – Developmental Science, 2013
The expertise of adults in face perception is facilitated by their ability to rapidly detect that a stimulus is a face. In two experiments, we examined the role of early visual input in the development of face detection by testing patients who had been treated as infants for bilateral congenital cataract. Experiment 1 indicated that, at age 9 to…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Recognition (Psychology), Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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Smith, Hayley; Milne, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2009
Background: The phenomenon of change blindness illustrates that a limited number of items within the visual scene are attended to at any one time. It has been suggested that individuals with autism focus attention on less contextually relevant aspects of the visual scene, show superior perceptual discrimination and notice details which are often…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Error Patterns, Task Analysis