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Measurement of developmental susceptibility to the horizontal‐vertical illusion
Author(s) -
Grieve Robert,
Hogben John,
Williams Aileen
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1983.tb00553.x
Subject(s) - illusion , psychology , horizontal and vertical , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , geodesy , geography
Previous attempts to estimate developmental susceptibility to the horizontal‐vertical illusion have produced contradictory results. When susceptibility to the illusion is measured using a procedure appropriate to work with both adults and young children—namely, Pollack's rules for Taylor & Creelman's (1967) Parametric Estimation by Sequential Testing (PEST) procedure—it is found that susceptibility to the illusion does not significantly change in development from age three years to adulthood.