Infants' ability to process spatial information : comparing action and perception

2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20539004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: TSURUHARA Aki Chuo University, 研究開発機構, 機構助教 (40342688)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2010
• Keywords: 感覚・知覚 / 発達 / 空間知覚

Research Abstract

With behavioral experiments, this study examined infants' ability to perceive depth from various visual cues. The results suggested that young infants who didn't show the ability to perceive depth from pictorial cues in the reaching task could perceive depth in looking behavior. It was also suggested that 6-7-month-old infants could transfer 3D shape perception across different pictorial depth cues, and 6-month-old infants could perceive depth from vertical disparity.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The development of the ability of infants to utilize static cues to create and access representations of object shape. (2010)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Sawada T., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M.K., Corrow S., Yonas A.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Vision 10(12) : 2 Pages: 1-11
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Infants' perception of human body orientation and the effect of a surrounding square. (2010)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M.K.
  • Journal Title: Japanese Psychological Research 52(4) Pages: 281-290
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Infant's ability to form a common representation of an object's shape from different pictorial depth cues : a transfer-across-cues study. (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Sawada T., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M.K., Yonas A.
  • Journal Title: Infant Behavior and Development 32(4) Pages: 468-475
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Infants can't discriminate the orientation of a grating surrounded by an oblique square. (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M.K.
  • Journal Title: Perception 38(7) Pages: 1035-1044
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Infants' perception of depth from a pictorial cue : Comparing monocular and binocular preferential-looking. (2010)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Corrow S., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M. K., Albert Yonas A.
  • Organizer: The 33rd European Conference on Visual Perception
  • Place of Presentation: Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Year and Date: 20100822-20100826
• [Presentation] A transfer-across-depth-cues study of the ability of infants to access a representation of 3-D shape from shading and line junction information. (2010)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Sawada T., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M.K., Yonas A.
  • Organizer: Vision Sciences Society 10th Annual Meeting.
  • Place of Presentation: Florida, USA
  • Year and Date: 20100700-20101200
• [Presentation] Infants' visually induced postural sway : The effect of the attractiveness of fixation mark. (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Katsumata Y., Kitazaki M., Hanazawa A., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M. K.
  • Organizer: The 15th International Conference on Perception and Action.
  • Place of Presentation: Minnesota, USA
  • Year and Date: 20090712-20090717
• [Presentation] Infants' ability to perceive 3D shape from pictorial cues : Transfer-across-depth-cues study. (2009)
  • Author(s): Tsuruhara A., Sawada T., Kanazawa S., Yamaguchi M.K., Yonas A.
  • Organizer: The Vision Sciences Society 9th Annual Meeting.
  • Place of Presentation: Florida, USA
  • Year and Date: 20090508-20090513