Infants' Response to Pictures of Impossible Objects

Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
Sarah M ShuwairiScott P Johnson

Abstract

Previous work has shown that 4-month-olds can discriminate between two-dimensional (2D) depictions of structurally possible and impossible objects [S. M. Shuwairi (2009), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 115; S. M. Shuwairi, M. K. Albert, & S. P. Johnson (2007), Psychological Science, 18, 303]. Here, we asked whether evidence of discrimination of possible and impossible pictures would also be revealed in infants' patterns of reaching and manual exploration. Nine-month-old infants were presented with realistic photograph displays of structurally possible and impossible cubes along with a series of perceptual controls, and engaged in more frequent manual exploration of pictures of impossible objects. In addition, the impossible cube display elicited significantly more social referencing and vocalizations than the possible cube and perceptual control displays. The increased manual gestures associated with the incoherent figure suggest that perceptual and manual action mechanisms are interrelated in early development. The infant's visual system extracts structural information contained in 2D images in analyzing the projected 3D configuration, and this information serves to control both the oculomotor and manual action...Continue Reading

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May 7, 2013·Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies·Sarah M Shuwairi, Scott P Johnson
Jun 14, 2014·Attention, Perception & Psychophysics·Sarah M ShuwairiGregory L Murphy
Sep 1, 2012·Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies·Christine J ZiemerAnne D Pick

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