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Houtkamp, Roos; Roelfsema, Pieter R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The visual system groups image elements that belong to an object and segregates them from other objects and the background. Important cues for this grouping process are the Gestalt criteria, and most theories propose that these are applied in parallel across the visual scene. Here, we find that Gestalt grouping can indeed occur in parallel in some…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Cognitive Development, Attention
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Keen, Rachel; Berthier, Neil; Sylvia, Monica R.; Butler, Samantha; Prunty, Patricia K.; Baker, Rachel K. – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Search for a ball that has undergone hidden motion rapidly improves during the second year of life ("Dev. Psychol.," 2000; 36:394-401). In three experiments we investigated whether the poor performance of younger toddlers was due to attentional failure by highlighting the major cue for the hidden object. We observed only slight improvement in…
Descriptors: Cues, Toddlers, Cognitive Development, Experimental Psychology