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SENSORY PROCESSING AND THE RECOGNITION OF FORMS IN NURSERY‐SCHOOL CHILDREN
Author(s) -
DENNER BRUCE,
CASHDAN SHELDON
Publication year - 1967
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.2044-8295.1967.tb01062.x
Subject(s) - psychology , facilitation , recall , sensory system , object (grammar) , haptic technology , cognitive psychology , cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition , developmental psychology , communication , artificial intelligence , computer science , neuroscience
Recognition of forms under varying sensory input conditions was studied in three groups of pre‐school children. One group inspected an object visually while the two other groups were given the additional experience of handling the object either directly or encased in a ball of clear plastic (haptic and manual conditions). Recognition and verbal recall measures were obtained two days later. No differences in verbal recall were observed. In agreement with previous research, performance by the ‘visual only’ group was worse than by the other two groups. Since the recognition by first two groups was equally good, it is suggested that the component underlying haptic facilitation of learning may simply be the amount of concrete activity involved.