The role of kinetic information in newborns' perception of illusory contours

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 492-501

  Valenza, Eloisa ^a,b   Bulf, Hermann ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Psicologia Dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; KINETICS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEWBORN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; KINETICS; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 34249782839     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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