Preference for impossible figures in 4-month-olds

Can infants use interposition and line junction cues to infer three-dimensional (3D) structure? Previous work has shown that in a task that required 4-month-olds to discriminate between static two-dimensional (2D) pictures of possible and impossible cubes, infants exhibited a spontaneous preference...

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Published in:Journal of experimental child psychology 2009-09, Vol.104 (1), p.115-123
Main Author: Shuwairi, Sarah M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
3D coherence
Biological and medical sciences
Child Development
Cue integration
Cues
Depth Perception
Developmental psychology
Dimensional Preference
Discrimination (Psychology)
Experiments
Female
Form Perception
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Impossible objects
Infant
Infant Behavior
Infant Behavior - psychology
Infants
Male
Neuropsychological Tests
Newborn. Infant
Object perception in infancy
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Perceptual Development
Photic Stimulation - methods
Pictorial depth cues
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Space Perception
Visual development
Visual Discrimination
Visual Stimuli
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Summary:Can infants use interposition and line junction cues to infer three-dimensional (3D) structure? Previous work has shown that in a task that required 4-month-olds to discriminate between static two-dimensional (2D) pictures of possible and impossible cubes, infants exhibited a spontaneous preference for displays of the impossible cube but left open the question of whether they did so on the basis of purely local “critical regions” or whether they were able to employ more global clues. Here infants were presented with possible and impossible cubes in which the strictly local cues that could have derived from exterior binding contours were deleted. Results showed that infants were still able to discriminate possible cubes from impossible cubes, suggesting that longer looking infants are sensitive to global properties and that the capacity to integrate pictorial information to perceive aspects of global 3D shape may develop earlier than demonstrated previously using reaching tasks.
ISSN:0022-0965
1096-0457
DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2008.10.001