Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development

GIBSON, ELEANOR J.

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“…It is now common to argue that spatial properties of the environment (e.g., shape and place) number among a range of "amodal" sensations which are specified in a redundant manner across modalities (e.g., Bahrick & Lickliter, 2000;Gibson, 1969;Walker-Andrews, 1994). Developmental scientists have been by no means idle when it comes to addressing the question of how infants and young children develop in their ability to perceive such aspects of the multisensory environment (for a recent review see Bahrick & Lickliter, 2012;although note that there is some disagreement concerning what counts as an amodal property, Lewkowicz & Kraebel, 2004).…”

Section: Visual-tactile Co-location In Infantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perception of visual-tactile colocation in the first year of life.

Freier¹,

Mason²,

Bremner³

2016

Developmental Psychology

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Section: Visual-tactile Co-location In Infantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perception of visual-tactile colocation in the first year of life.

Freier¹,

Mason²,

Bremner³

2016

Developmental Psychology

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“…More complex attributes such as edginess, curvature, obliqueness, straightness and intersection have been proposed (Gibson 1969). With regard to letter recognition, Gibson (1969) has specified certain features for capital letters, Bouma (197 1) aimed at the same for lower-case letters. With regard to words, various models have been proposed in the literature.…”

Section: Recognitionmentioning

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Global attributes in visual word recognition: Contour perception of three-letter strings

Schiepers¹

1978

Acta Psychologica

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“…Gibson's (1969) specificity theory and Rasmussen's (1985) notion of abstraction hierarchy; but they claim that its application to explain expertise effects in memory recall is novel.…”

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Expertise effects in memory recall: Comment on Vicente and Wang (1998).

Simon¹,

Gobet²

2000

Psychological Review

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proposed a "constraint attunement hypothesis" to explain the large effects of domain expertise on memory recall observed in a number of task domains. They claimed to have found serious defects in alternative explanations of these effects, which their theory overcomes. Reexamination of the evidence shows that their theory is not novel but has been anticipated by those they criticized and that other current published theories of the phenomena do not have the defects that Vicente and Wang attributed to them. Vicente and Wang's views reflect underlying differences about (a) emphasis on performance versus process in psychology and (b) how theories and empirical knowledge interact and progress with the development of a science.Vicente and Wang (1998) used an ecological approach to explain the "significant correlation between domain expertise and memory recall performance after a very brief exposure time" (p. 33). They claimed that "this constraint attunement hypothesis[CAH] . .. predicts ... a memory expertise advantage in cases in which experts are attuned to the goal-relevant constraints in the material to be recalled and that the more constraint available, the greater the expertise advantage can be" (p. 33) and explains "several findings in the literature [that] have no satisfactory theoretical explanation" (p. 33). We claim that, on the contrary, these findings have already been explained by process theories and the memory advantage has long been understood in terms of its goal relevance.After summarizing Vicente and Wang's (1998) theoretical proposal, we address several errors in their account of past and current research on expertise. We then show why the 10 experiments that Vicente and Wang reviewed do not support CAH unless one adds to it a number of auxiliary assumptions and why they provide better support for the contemporary process theories criticized by Vicente and Wang. Process theories need not wait and have not waited for product theories such as CAH to clear the way for progress.

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Principles of Perceptual Learning and Development

Cited by 385 publications

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Perception of visual-tactile colocation in the first year of life.

Perception of visual-tactile colocation in the first year of life.

Global attributes in visual word recognition: Contour perception of three-letter strings

Expertise effects in memory recall: Comment on Vicente and Wang (1998).

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