Open AccessTHE SALIENCE OF ORIENTATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN'S PERCEPTION OF FORM 1
Author(s) -
McGurk Harry
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
ets research bulletin series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2333-8504
pISSN - 0424-6144
DOI - 10.1002/j.2333-8504.1972.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , orientation (vector space) , psychology , perception , discriminative model , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , computer science , geometry , neuroscience
Forty‐two nursery school children were exposed to two procedures designed to assess their discrimination of orientation. Under one procedure subjects had no difficulty in discriminating between stimuli which differed only in orientation. Under a second procedure, where color and size of stimuli were also varied, orientation proved to be a discriminative cue of relatively low salience. These findings obtained for perception both of realistic and of abstract forms.