Influence of the Orientation of Geometric Forms on Their Recognition by Children

Ghent, Lila; Bernstein, Lilly

doi:10.2466/pms.1961.12.1.95

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“…It has frequently been demonstrated (e.g., Braine, 1972;Bryden, 1960;Ghent & Bernstein, 1961;Heron, 1957) that human subjects usually recognize images in a complex field one after the other. Moreover, the experiments of Ghent and Bernstein establish that not only are different figures recognized one after the other but also that parts of the same figure are processed in sequence, especially if the figure is complex and unfamiliar.…”

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A model for visual shape recognition.

Milner

1974

Psychological Review

542

294

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Many examples of stimulus equivalence may be explained by angle and length-ratio feature detectors whose outputs are generalized over the visual field. Problems of interference between a number of figures simultaneously present and of localizing the figure that is being recognized require a mechanism of selective attention. This could involve the temporal segregation of signals from different figures as they pass through the recognition circuits. The figure to which attention is directed feeds a signal back to an earlier stage to enhance the corresponding input before the generalization process deprives it of its spatial information.

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Section: Some Problems In the Application Ofmentioning

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A model for visual shape recognition.

Milner

1974

Psychological Review

542

294

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“…70-71, 78). The only dissenters, prior to the Brooks-Goldstein experiment, were Ghent (3,4,5) and Hunton (6) who had demonstrated with other classes of stimuli the superior ability of the older child to recognize upside-down stimuli.…”

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Recognition of Children's Faces

Goldstein¹,

Chance²

1964

Child Development

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“…This required them to move their eyes a good deal over the visual field. Such forms of scanning eye movements have been suggested as a kind of basis for all form perception (see, for example, ref 5). But the present results occur in a situation in which scanning eye movements (contour-tracing), even if the subjects had time enough to scan, would produce failure rather than success, since the figures of the upper row are filled with visual noise.…”

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