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SOME STUDIES OF PERCEPTION IN RELATION TO AGE
Author(s) -
WALLACE JEAN G.
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1956.tb00590.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , visual perception , audiology , time perception , age groups , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , demography , neuroscience , medicine , sociology
A series of experiments to discover extent of age differences in visual perception when temporal integration was required suggested that:1 Whore displays were simple, performance of different age groups was nearly equal, but with increasing complexity of displays older subjects were relatively increasingly slow in making correct identifications. 2 With complex displays there was a relationship between degree of correct identification and ( a ) cumulative viewing time; ( b ) amount of display seen at one moment, such that an increase in both led to a greater improvement in performance of older subjects than an increase in either time or amount alone. Given a sufficient increase, performance of older subjects equalled that of younger. 3 greater difficulty of older subjects with complex material appeared to be due mainly to greater amount of temporal integration required with such material.