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Study on the concepts of moving objects in naive physics and naite biology

Research Project

Project/Area Number 03831018
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 認知科学
Research InstitutionToyoko Gakuen Women's College

Principal Investigator

SHIMOMURA Kumiko  Toyoko Women's Junior College, Department of Liberal Arts, Assistant Professor, 教養系, 助教授 (10179012)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UENO Naoki  National Institute for Educational Research, Department of Learning and Instruct, 教育指導部, 主任研究員 (40124177)
Project Period (FY) 1991
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1991)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
KeywordsScience education / Visual perception / Motion perception / Naive physics / Naive biology / Ecological approach
Research Abstract

This study investigated the nature and origin of naive physics and naive biology and found that they are crucially linked to the perception of objects' motion.
Specifically, we conducted the following experiments and obtained the following results.
1. Adult subjects observed on a computer monitor various motion patterns of one luminous dot differing in speed, acceleration rate, and direction and asked to rate for each motion pattern "force in notion" and "control in motion". It was found that motion in horizontal direction was generally perceived as a result of some force excerted or applied and motion in vertical direction (downward) as natural notioii with no force excerted or applied. This result corresponds perfectly to a novice's preconception in physics that " Object's motion is caused by force and if the object is rest-in-stasis, no force is applied" and to the novice's undifferentiation between mass and weight, thus suggesting the close link between naive physics and motion perce … More ption.
2. Adult subjects observed on a computer monitor the locomotion patterns of an insect, a hamster, a ball, and a dry leaf which were represented by (1) a luminous dot or (2) luminous line indicating object's head and tail. They also observe (3) body-part movements of a running animal and a puppet animal represented by several luminous dots attached to their major joints. When asked to judge each motion pattern's "animacy" impression, the subjects clearly discriminate animal's motion pattern, and this holds true at any representation mode. It was also found that when, at mode (2), the swaying movement of the line was experimentally changed to its mirror-image movement while the overall locomotion trail was intact, the line's animacy impression dissipated, indicating that inter -level relations of the nested structure of animal locomotion is one of the important source of information yeilding animacy impression. The study thus showed that there is everyday understanding of animate and inanimate objects separately from school biology and that is critically based on the perception of object's motion. Less

Report

(2 results)
  • 1991 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All Other

All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 川村 久美子: "「概念を知覚する」" 現代のエスプリ 特集『認識のエコロジ-』. (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kumiko Kawamura & Norifumi Arimoto: "Reexamining Biology using moving obdects as stimuli--Perceiving animacy in an object's motion" The 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association,Chicago.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Ueno,Norifumi Arimoto,& Arifumi Yoshioka: ""Conceptual change" in mass and weight--Gibsonian perspective" The 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association,Chicago.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 上野 直樹,有元 典文,吉岡 有文: "運動力学についてのAgencyの知覚とPreconception" 日本認知科学会第8回大会 1991年7月4日ー6日.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kumiko Kawamura (Shimomura) & Norifumi Arimoto: "Reexaming Biology using moving objects as stimuli -- Perceiving animacy in an object's motion" The 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Ueno, Norifumi Arimoto, & Arifumi Yoshioka: ""Conceptual change" in mass and weight -- Gibsonian perspective" The 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Naoki Ueno, Norifumi Arimoto, & Arifumi Yoshioka: "The perception of agency and preconceptions in naive Physics" The 8th meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. (1991)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kumiko Kawamura: ""Perceiving" concepts" Gendai no Espri. (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1991 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 川村 久美子: "「概念を知覚する」" 現代のエスプリ 特集『認識のエコロジ-』至文堂. (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Kumiko Kawamura & Norifumi Arimoto: "Reexamining Biology using moving objects as stimuli--Perceiving animacy in an object's motion" The 1991 meeting of the American Educational Research Association,Chicago.

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Naoki Ueno,Norifumi Arimoto & Arifumi Yoshioka: ""Conceptual change"in mass and weight --Gibsonian perspective" The 1991 meeting of the Amerian Educational Research Association,Chicago.

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 上野 直樹,有元 典文,吉岡 有文: "運動力学についてのAgencyの知覚とPreconception" 日本認知科学会第8回大会 1991年7月4日・6日.

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report

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