Uneven integration for perception and action cues in children's working memory

Nardini, Marko; Braddick, Oliver; Atkinson, Janette; Cowie, Dorothy; Ahmed, Taski; Reidy, Hannah

doi:10.1080/02643290701866028

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“…In adults and older children, the perception of an object and the organization of object-related actions are smoothly integrated (e.g., Bertenthal, 2008;Bruno & Battaglini, 2008;Nardini et al, 2008). Young children, however, sometimes make serious attempts to perform impossible actions on miniature objects as if they were full-size objects (e.g., Brownell, Zerwas & Ramani, 2007;DeLoache, Uttal & Rosengren, 2004;Rosengren, Carmichael, Schein, Anderson, Gutierrez, 2009;Rosengren, Schein, & Gutierrez, 2010;Ware, Uttal, DeLoache, 2010).…”

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Decreased attention to object size information in scale errors performers

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Cangelosi

Cattani

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Infant Behavior and Development

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Young children sometimes make serious attempts to perform impossible actions on miniature objects as if they were full-size objects. The existing explanations of these curious action errors assume (but never explicitly tested) children's decreased attention to object size information. This study investigated the attention to object size information in scale errors performers. Two groups of children aged 18-25 months (N=52) and 48-60 months (N=23) were tested in two consecutive tasks: an action task that replicated the original scale errors elicitation situation, and a looking task that involved watching on a computer screen actions performed with adequate to inadequate size object. Our key finding - that children performing scale errors in the action task subsequently pay less attention to size changes than non-scale errors performers in the looking task - suggests that the origins of scale errors in childhood operate already at the perceptual level, and not at the action level.

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Decreased attention to object size information in scale errors performers

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Cattani

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Infant Behavior and Development

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“…Bloch & Carchon 1992; Kremenitzer, Vaughan, Kurtzberg & Dowling, 1979), interactions between perception and action become better tuned as a function of neural development and experience (e.g. DeLoache, Uttal & Rosengren, 2004; Nardini, Braddick, Atkinson, Cowie, Ahmed & Reidy, 2008).…”

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Functional dissociation between perception and action is evident early in life

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Avidan

Ganel

2012

Developmental Science

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The functional distinction between vision for perception and vision for action is well documented in the mature visual system. Ganel and colleagues recently provided direct evidence for this dissociation, showing that while visual processing for perception follows Weber's fundamental law of psychophysics, action violates this law. We tracked the developmental trajectory of this functional dissociation, asking whether the qualitatively different pattern observed in adults of adherence of perception but not of action to Weber's law would also be evident early in life. Children aged 5-8 and adults were asked to either estimate the size of discs (perception) or grasp discs (action) varying in diameter. Interestingly, variability of perceptual estimates increased as a function of object size in accord with Weber's law, while variability of grasping did not scale with object size, at all ages tested. This provides the first clear evidence for an early emergence of the dissociation between perception and action.

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“…In terms of function, this trajectory may be predicted from the suggestion that children's ability to integrate information encoded by dorsal visual processing streams (such as action) with information encoded by ventral visual processing streams (such as color or other identity features of objects) develops unevenly, with the integration of some kinds of features occurring before others (Nardini et al, 2008). Thus, infants may first be more selective and detect few correlations among features, and with age, they would detect increasingly more relations among features.…”

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Infants' Developing Sensitivity to Object Function: Attention to Features and Feature Correlations

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Oakes

2011

Journal of Cognition and Development

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When learning object function, infants must detect relations among featuresfor example, that squeezing is associated with squeaking or that objects with wheels roll. Previously, Perone and Oakes (2006) found 10-month-old infants were sensitive to relations between object appearances and actions, but not to relations between appearances and sounds or actions and sounds. In this article the authors probed the development of infants' attention to feature correlations critical for representing function by testing 8-and 12-month-old infants' (N ¼ 126) sensitivity to such relations. Eight-month-old infants learned individual features but were not sensitive to the relations between those features. Twelve-month-old infants were sensitive to the relation among the features and significantly responded to violations in learned relations between object appearances and actions and between appearances and sounds. Thus, across development, infants become sensitive to an increasing number of relations with age, supporting an information-processing account of the development of object function.Understanding the function of objects is important for learning how to act on and categorize objects. Function is considered central to infants' conceptual development (Keil, 1989;Nelson, 1973Nelson, , 1974Nelson, , 1979), yet there is no standard definition for function in the field of psychological research.Correspondence should be sent to Lisa M. Oakes

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Uneven integration for perception and action cues in children's working memory

Cited by 14 publications

References 46 publications

Decreased attention to object size information in scale errors performers

Decreased attention to object size information in scale errors performers

Functional dissociation between perception and action is evident early in life

Infants' Developing Sensitivity to Object Function: Attention to Features and Feature Correlations

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