Gestalt relations and object perception: a developmental study. Spelke, E. S., Breinlinger, K., Jacobson, K., & Phillips, A. Perception, 22(12):1483-501, 1993. abstract bibtex We investigated whether adults and infants aged 3, 5, and 9 months perceive the unity and boundaries of visible objects in accord with the Gestalt relations of color and texture similarity, good continuation, or good form. Adults and infants were presented with simple but unfamiliar displays in which all three Gestalt relations specified either one object or two objects-perception of the objects was assessed by a verbal rating method in the adults and by a preferential looking method in the infants. The Gestalt relations appeared to influence the adults' perceptions strongly. However, the relations appeared to have no effect on the perceptions of 3-month-old infants and weak effects on the perceptions of 5-month-old and 9-month-old infants. The findings support the suggestion that developmental changes in object perception occur slowly. These changes, and the organizational phenomena to which Gestalt psychology called attention, may depend in part on the child's developing ability to recognize objects of particular kinds.
@Article{Spelke1993,
author = {E. S. Spelke and K. Breinlinger and K. Jacobson and A. Phillips},
journal = {Perception},
title = {Gestalt relations and object perception: a developmental study.},
year = {1993},
number = {12},
pages = {1483-501},
volume = {22},
abstract = {We investigated whether adults and infants aged 3, 5, and 9 months
perceive the unity and boundaries of visible objects in accord with
the Gestalt relations of color and texture similarity, good continuation,
or good form. Adults and infants were presented with simple but unfamiliar
displays in which all three Gestalt relations specified either one
object or two objects-perception of the objects was assessed by a
verbal rating method in the adults and by a preferential looking
method in the infants. The Gestalt relations appeared to influence
the adults' perceptions strongly. However, the relations appeared
to have no effect on the perceptions of 3-month-old infants and weak
effects on the perceptions of 5-month-old and 9-month-old infants.
The findings support the suggestion that developmental changes in
object perception occur slowly. These changes, and the organizational
phenomena to which Gestalt psychology called attention, may depend
in part on the child's developing ability to recognize objects of
particular kinds.},
keywords = {Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Attention, Discrimination Learning, Female, Gestalt Theory, Humans, Infant, Male, Mental Recall, Optical Illusions, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Perceptual Closure, Psychophysics, Visual, 8090623},
}
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