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The Salience of Orientation in Young Children's Perception of Form
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McGurk, Harry – Child Development, 1972
Results indicate that for children in this study's age range orientation is a less salient discriminative cue than either size or color. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Orientation, Preschool Children
Perception of Symmetry in Infancy: The Salience of Vertical Symmetry and the Perception of Pattern Wholes.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Krinsky, Sharon J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Four experiments assessed converging aspects of four-month-old infants' perceptions of visual patterns. Results together corroborate and extend previous findings that vertical symmetry has a special status in early perceptual development and that infants can perceive pattern wholes. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Infants, Perception
Dimensional Effects in Cross-modal Transfer of Discrimination Learning in Children
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Tyrrell, Donald J. – Child Development, 1977
Analysis of 40 first-grade children's performance on two discrimination learning problems revealed that children do transfer dimensional information between the visual and tactual modalities. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Learning Modalities, Primary Education
Individual Differences in Infant Fixation Duration: Dominance of Global versus Local Stimulus Properties.
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Colombo, John; And Others – Cognitive Development, 1995
Investigates the dominance of global versus local visual properties in four-month-old infants as a function of individual differences in fixation duration. Suggests that long-looking infants process visual information more slowly than short-looking infants, and there may be qualitative differences in the manner in which the two groups of infants…
Descriptors: Attention, Cognitive Processes, Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning
Children's Probability Learning: An Analysis of Errors.
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Hartley, Deborah G. – 1971
The present study examines the relationship between alternation behavior and performance, and in addition, the effects of reinforcement configuration and relevant dimension upon the use of alternation strategies in probability learning. Also investigated is the hypothesis that children's errors at terminal levels of performance in a two-choice…
Descriptors: Dimensional Preference, Discrimination Learning, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Number Bias for the Discrimination of Large Visual Sets in Infancy
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Brannon, Elizabeth M.; Abbott, Sara; Lutz, Donna J. – Cognition, 2004
This brief report attempts to resolve the claim that infants preferentially attend to continuous variables over number [e.g. Psychol. Sci. 10 (1999) 408; Cognit. Psychol.44 (2002) 33] with the finding that when continuous variables are controlled, infants as young as 6-months of age discriminate large numerical values [e.g. Psychol. Sci. 14 (2003)…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, Infants, Discrimination Learning
Developmental Changes in the Effect of Dimensional Salience on the Dimensionality of Object Relations.
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Markson, Lori; Thompson, Laura A. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1998
Two experiments explored the nature of perceptual development in 5- and 10-year olds and adults. The primary finding was that preassessed salience significantly influenced 5-year olds' ability to discriminate two objects, while salience did not affect 10-year olds' or adults' response times. Results showed that salience effects in perceptual…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Children