Cutaneous Pattern Perception on Foreheads in 3- and 4-Year-Old Children |
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Authors: | Shoji Itakura |
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Institution: | Department of Communication , Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture |
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Abstract: | In the present study, we investigated how 3- and 4-year-old children perceived mirror-image stimuli traced on their foreheads. First, the subjects were taught matching-to-sample tasks with symmetrically shaped and asymmetrically shaped figures (called mirror-image stimuli) on cards. Then the subjects were taught cutaneous perception of a figure traced by the experimenter's finger on the forehead. Last, the subjects were tested with mirror-image stimuli in cutaneous perception tasks. The results of these experiments indicated that the subjects who could discriminate the mirror-image stimuli could also perceive asymmetrical stimuli as mirror reversals. |
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Keywords: | Animate monitoring inattentional blindness snake detection threat superiority |
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