Scale Errors Offer Evidence for a Perception-Action Dissociation Early in Life

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5673, 2004, Pages 1027-1029

  DeLoache, Judy S ^a   Uttal, David H ^b   Rosengren, Karl S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DISSOCIATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

INHIBITORY CONTROL; MINIATURE OBJECTS; VISUAL INFORMATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROL SYSTEM; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE PROJECTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SIZE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 2342502641     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093567     Document Type: Article

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21. We thank D. Profitt and P. Vishton for their helpful suggestions about the research and the manuscript and E. Ware for comments on earlier drafts. We thank K. Anderson, A. Raustol, M. Bloom, and T. Carr for assistance with the research. The three authors collaborated on the design of the research, but the studies were conducted in the lab of the first author, who wrote the report. The work was supported in part by NIH grant HD-25271 (J.S.D.) and by Neurobiological and Behavioral Development Training grant 5 T32 HD007323-18 from the National Institute on Deafness and Communication Disorders (D. Hill).