"Mirror-image" errors without mirror-image stimuli |
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| Authors: | F Barroso L G Braine |
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| Affiliation: | New York University USA;Barnard College, Columbia University USA |
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| Abstract: | Recent work has indicated that discrimination between upright and inverted stimuli is difficult when stimuli are one above the other, and discrimination between stimuli turned left and right is difficult when stimuli are side by side. That is, errors are frequent under conditions in which mirror-image confusions can be made. Young children were given a task requiring the matching of orientation of (a) identical realistic figures that could form mirror images of each other or (b) nonidentical realistic figures that could not form mirror images. The same pattern of errors appeared for the identical and nonidentical figures, indicating that the errors are not mirror-image confusions. It is argued that the errors are due to a strategy of matching analogous parts of the two figures. |
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| Keywords: | Reprints may be obtained from both authors: Felix Barroso Psychology Department New York University New York NY 10003 and Lila G. Braine Psychology Department Barnard College Columbia University New York NY 10027. |
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