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Perceptual gestalt emerges from redundant contexts: comparative developmental studies

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25730100
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Cognitive science
Research InstitutionSagami Women's University

Principal Investigator

Goto Kazuhiro  相模女子大学, 人間社会学部, 講師 (20546725)

Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywordsパターン優位性効果 / 文脈効果 / ゲシュタルト知覚 / 視線 / 知覚的体制化 / まとまり / ゲシュタルト心理学 / チンパンジー / 顔知覚 / 創発的特徴 / 探索非対称性 / 発達的変化 / 幼児
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Human adults perceptually group multiple component parts as a whole. In the present study, I compared chimpanzees and humans to examine what aspects of perceptual grouping is unique to humans. I also compared human children and adults to examine how perceptual grouping develops. In a series of experiments, I was particularly interested in the configural superiority effect: despite its irrelevance, redundant contexts improve the participants' performance when the context perceptually grouped with the task-related stimuli. When the shape perception was examined using geometric figures, chimpanzees and human children showed similar configural superiority effect to human adults. However, they failed to show the effect in face perception. I also revealed that human gaze and objects is perceptually grouped when the gaze is oriented towards the objects. In summary, basic principles of perceptual gestalts are shared between humans and chimpanzees, as well as human adults and children.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2015 2014

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Pigeons (Columba livia) fail to connect dots in learning biological motion.2015

    • Author(s)
      Yamamoto, E., Goto, K., Watanabe, S.
    • Journal Title

      Animal Cognition

      Volume: 18 Issue: 5 Pages: 1187-1191

    • DOI

      10.1007/s10071-015-0880-2

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Pigeons (Columba livia) fail to connect dots in learning biological motion2015

    • Author(s)
      Yamamoto, E., Goto, K., & Watanabe, S.
    • Organizer
      第75回日本動物心理学会
    • Place of Presentation
      日本女子大学
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-10
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ヒト幼児におけるパターン優位性効果と探索非対称性2014

    • Author(s)
      後藤和宏・飯島真央・板倉昭二
    • Organizer
      日本基礎心理学会第33回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      首都大学東京 南大沢キャンパス
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-06 – 2014-12-07
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 動物たちは何を考えている? -動物心理学の挑戦- (知りたい! サイエンス)2015

    • Author(s)
      藤田 和生 (著, 編集), 日本動物心理学会 (監修)
    • Total Pages
      304
    • Publisher
      技術評論社
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 動物たちは何を考えている? -動物心理学の挑戦-2015

    • Author(s)
      藤田和生 編著
    • Total Pages
      304
    • Publisher
      技術評論社
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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