First Came the Trees, Then the Forest: Developmental Changes During Childhood in the Processing of Visual Local-Global Patterns According to the Meaningfulness of the Stimuli

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 245-253

  Poirel, Nicolas ^a   Mellet, Emmanuel ^a   Houdé, Olivier ^a   Pineau, Arlette ^a  

^a DIF   (France)

Author keywords

cognitive development; global local processing; hierarchical stimuli; object identification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; VISION; WRITING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRITING;

EID: 38749097738     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.1.245     Document Type: Article

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