Good continuation affects discrimination of visual pattern information in young infants |
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Authors: | Quinn Paul C Bhatt Ramesh S |
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Institution: | Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. pquinn@udel.edu |
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Abstract: | A familiarization-novelty preference procedure was used to determine whether 3- to 4-month-old and 6- to 7-month-old infants utilize the Gestalt principle of good continuation to organize visual patterns. The study involved presentation of a target item (i.e., a square or diamond) either in-line or off-line with a set of distractor items (i.e., circles). Infants in both age groups responded to a change in the target element in the off-line, but not in the in-line, condition. The results suggest that infants organize visual pattern information in accord with the principle of good continuation. Implications of this finding for models of the ontogenesis and microgenesis of object perception in infants and adults are discussed. |
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