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ERIC Number: EJ544978
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1996
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Spatiotemporal Integration and Object Perception in Infancy: Perceiving Unity versus Form.
Van de Walle, Gretchen A.; Spelke, Elizabeth S.
Child Development, v67 n6 p2621-40 Dec 1996
Investigated 5-month-olds' perception of an object whose center was occluded and whose ends were visible only in succession. Found that infants perceived the object as one connected whole when the ends underwent common motion but not when the ends were stationary. Results suggest that infants perceive object unity but not object form. (Author/BC)
Descriptors: Infants, Motion, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Object Unity; Partial Occlusion; Shapes