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Berger, Carole; Hatwell, Yvette – Cognitive Development, 1993
The developmental change from global toward dimensional classifications, usually observed in vision, was investigated in haptics with stimuli varying according to their size and roughness. Results indicated that, although more overall similarity classifications were observed in children than in adults, this kind of classification was never…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Classification

Berger, Carole; Hatwell, Yvette – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1996
Two experiments studied the impact of the nature of information available at different processing levels on differences in haptic (tactile) and in visual, free classification development. Found that exploration characteristics (involving simultaneous versus independent processing of stimulus dimensions) and presentation of the stimulus dimensions…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Processes