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PICTORIAL DEPTH PERCEPTION: A DEVELOPMENTAL STUDY
Author(s) -
JAHODA GUSTAV,
McGURK HARRY
Publication year - 1974
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.2044-8295.1974.tb02780.x
Subject(s) - psychology , depth perception , perception , spatial ability , construct (python library) , communication , cognitive psychology , cognition , computer science , neuroscience , programming language
Children between 4 and 10 years participated in a study of their ability to discriminate pictorially represented depth. Stimuli comprised pictures in which depth cues were systematically manipulated. Subjects were required to construct three‐dimensional models representing the size and spatial relationships between figures in the pictures. Models were scored for size and spatial accuracy. Size accuracy, relatively high at 4 years, increased with increase in age and number of depth cues. Spatial accuracy was poor below 8 years, but increased to near perfection between 8 and 10 years. However, spatial accuracy decreased slightly with increase in cues to depth. Poor spatial accuracy at younger ages is attributed to response failure rather than to a failure to perceive depth in the pictures.