Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4035975 Vision Research 2008 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

Previous research has indicated that the ability to integrate individual elements in the presence of noise is immature in 3-month-old infants. The present study extended the developmental timeline by investigating 6-month-olds’ ability to integrate individual elements into whole contours through an assessment of their capability to discriminate circle and square contours constructed from oriented Gabor patches via a newly designed cueing paradigm for infants. If infants discriminate the centrally-presented contour cues, then their eye movements would correctly anticipate subsequent target presentation at a rate greater than chance. The results indicated that infants integrated the contours and discriminated the different shapes, but, consistent with past research, this ability is still fairly immature at this age, tolerating limited amount of noise.

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