Article
Frames of reference in preschoolers’ perception of motion
Perception and Psychophysics
(1984)
Abstract
Experiments 1 and 2 established children’s (mean age 3 years, 7 months) subject-relative and object-relative motion thresholds at 1°31.37′/sec and 1°9.33′/sec, respectively, speeds well above those found for adults. Experiment 3 established that preschoolers, like adults, attribute object-relative motion to the smaller of two objects, with the inducing properties of the larger stimulus greatest when it is surrounding rather than adjacent to a smaller stimulus. The inducing advantage of surroundedness was equivalent for a single-element square frame and a multielement six-dot frame.
Disciplines
Publication Date
1984
DOI
10.3758/BF03206357
Citation Information
Cheryl A Camenzuli and Celia B. Fisher. "Frames of reference in preschoolers’ perception of motion" Perception and Psychophysics Vol. 36 (1984) p. 84 - 91 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cheryl-camenzuli/4/