ERIC Number: EJ754567
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 11
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Perceiving "Outside the Box" Occurs Early in Development: Evidence for Boundary Extension in Three- to Seven-Month-Old Infants
Quinn, Paul C.; Intraub, Helene
Child Development, v78 n1 p324-334 Jan-Feb 2007
This investigation examined whether infants display "boundary extension"--a tendency to remember more of a visual scene than was presented. Three- to 7-month-olds were familiarized with a photograph of a visual scene, and tested with wide-angle versus close-up views of the scene. Infants preferred the close-up, indicating that they perceived the wide angle (the one consistent with boundary extension) as more familiar. Converging experiments showed that: (a) infants did not spontaneously prefer the close-up, (b) adults did not judge the wide angle to be more similar to the familiarization stimulus, and (c) infants spontaneously preferred the close-up when the photographs depicted outline objects without backgrounds. The findings suggest that infants anticipate information that lies beyond the borders of a scene view.
Descriptors: Photography, Infants, Pictorial Stimuli, Visual Perception, Recall (Psychology), Recognition (Psychology), Visual Arts, Familiarity, Infant Behavior
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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