Late development of metric part-relational processing in object recognition.

JÜTTNER, Martin, PETTERS, Dean, WAKUI, Elley and DAVIDOFF, Jules (2014). Late development of metric part-relational processing in object recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40 (4), 1718-1734.

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Abstract

Four experiments with unfamiliar objects examined the remarkably late consolidation of part-relational relative to part-based object recognition (Jüttner, Wakui, Petters, Kaur, & Davidoff, 2013). Our results indicate a particularly protracted developmental trajectory for the processing of metric part relations. Schoolchildren aged 7 to 14 years and adults were tested in 3-Alternative-Forced-Choice tasks to judge the correct appearance of upright and inverted newly learned multipart objects that had been manipulated in terms of individual parts or part relations. Experiment 1 showed that even the youngest tested children were close to adult levels of performance for recognizing categorical changes of individual parts and relative part position. By contrast, Experiment 2 demonstrated that performance for detecting metric changes of relative part position was distinctly reduced in young children compared with recognizing metric changes of individual parts, and did not approach the latter until 11 to 12 years. A similar developmental dissociation was observed in Experiment 3, which contrasted the detection of metric relative-size changes and metric part changes. Experiment 4 showed that manipulations of metric size that were perceived as part (rather than part-relational) changes eliminated this dissociation. Implications for theories of object recognition and similarities to the development of face perception are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Experimental Psychology; 1701 Psychology; 1702 Cognitive Sciences
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037288
Page Range:	1718-1734
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2020 11:41
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2021 23:48
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/25443

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