The Salience of Orientation in Young Children's Perception of Form NICHD

Author(s):

McGurk, Harry

Publication Year:

1972

Report Number:

RB-72-13

Source:

ETS Research Bulletin

Document Type:

Report

Page Count:

15

Subject/Key Words:

National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Social Science Research Council, London, England, Discrimination Learning, Perception Tests, Preschool Children, Visual Perception

Abstract

Forty-two nursery school children were exposed to two procedures designed to assess their discrimination of orientation. Under one procedure, subjects had no difficulty in discriminating between stimuli which differed only in orientation. Under a second procedure, where color and size of stimuli were also varied, orientation proved to be a discriminative cue of relatively low salience. These findings obtained for perception both of realistic and of abstract forms. (Author) (15pp.)

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