Infant's ability to form a common representation of an object's shape from different pictorial depth cues: A transfer-across-cues study

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 468-475

  Tsuruhara, Aki ^a   Sawada, Tadamasa ^b   Kanazawa, So ^c   Yamaguchi, Masami K ^a,d   Yonas, Albert ^e  

^a CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth perception; Pictorial depth cues; Shading; Surface contours; Transfer across depth cues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CUES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70350375274     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.09.002     Document Type: Article

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