Children's understanding of ambiguous figures: Which cognitive developments are necessary to experience reversal?

Doherty, Martin; Wimmer, Marina C.

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2005.05.003

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“…When looking at these-objectively stable-pictures, people continuously alternate between two mutually exclusive interpretations (e.g., from a face to a vase and vice versa; Kleinschmidt, Büchel, Zeki, & Frackowiak, 1998;Long & Toppino, 2004). These stimuli have been used to explore numerous perceptual phenomena, including binocular rivalry (Blake & Logothetis, 2002;Meng & Tong, 2004), the influence of cues on perception (Panichello, Cheung, & Bar, 2013, for an overview), the ability of children to switch between the two interpretations (Doherty & Wimmer, 2005;Gopnik & Rosati, 2001; M.C. Wimmer & Doherty, 2011), the brain areas associated with perceptual switches (Britz, Landis, & Michel, 2009;Kleinschmidt et al 1998;Lumer, Friston, & Rees, 1998;Zaretskaya, Thielscher, Logothetis, & Bartels, 2010), and perceptual hysteresis (Hock et al, 1993).…”

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Assessing perceptual change with an ambiguous figures task: Normative data for 40 standard picture sets

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In many research domains, researchers have employed gradually morphing pictures to study perception under ambiguity. Despite their inherent utility, only a limited number of stimulus sets are available, and those sets vary substantially in quality and perceptual complexity. Here we present normative data for 40 morphing picture series. In all sets, line drawings of pictures of common objects are morphed over 15 iterations into a completely different object. Objects are either morphed from an animate to an inanimate object (or vice versa) or morphed within the animate and inanimate object categories. These pictures, together with the normative naming data presented here, will be of value for research on a diverse range of questions, from perceptual processing to decision making.

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Assessing perceptual change with an ambiguous figures task: Normative data for 40 standard picture sets

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“…In addition, there are significant performance differences as well, within the age range from 3 to 5 years. Doherty and Wimmer (2005) found that 3-year-old children cannot even report both interpretations of such ambiguous images as the duck-rabbit or the man-mouse figures. However, 4-year-old children can easily interpret the ambiguous figures in both ways.…”

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Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual Integration

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Kovács

2013

Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology

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In this chapter, data concerning the development of principal aspects of vision is reviewed. First, the development of colour vision and luminance perception is discussed. Relevant data accumulated so far indicates that perception of colour and luminance is present by 6-9 months of age. The presence of typical color illusions at this age suggests that the phenomenal character of color experience is comparable to that of adults well before the first birthday. Thus it seems plausible that color perception develops on the grounds of genetically preprogrammed maturation, in which perceptual learning and plasticity play a limited role. This claim also seems to be supported by case studies of newly sighted patients. On the other hand, perceptual integration of edges and forms in the visual environment as well as the development of binocular vision, and the perception of ambiguous figures seem to depend crucially on early perceptual learning. Both developmental and clinical data indicate a more significant involvement of perceptual learning in such mid-level and higher level perceptual phenomena.

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“…Criticizing this assumption of automatic and spontaneous reversal, the main alternative approach puts the emphasis on knowledge of ambiguity and reversibility of a given pattern (Doherty & Wimmer, 2005). For example, Rock, Gopnik, and Hall (1994) and Rock and Mitchener (1992) have shown that many subjects fail to report spontaneous reversal if they were not informed of the possible interpretations before viewing the ambiguous pictures.…”

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Perceptual Reversal Guided by Integration Between Bottom-Up Input and Top-Down Feedback Over Time Course

Lee

2014

PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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A computational model of perceptual reversal alternating between two interpretations is presented. Initially, the model represents the ambiguous state of a reversible picture, such as the bistable face-vase image. The internal state of the network evolves to settle into a stable state, which corresponds to one of two alternatives. Top-down feedback proves a deciding factor in leading the system into a modeled perceptual state over the time course. At any given time, top-down input from temporal associative memory provides contextual modulation of bottom-up input in the network. The model accounts for the role of top-down knowledge in resolving perceptual ambiguity as well as reversibility from one state to another.

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Children's understanding of ambiguous figures: Which cognitive developments are necessary to experience reversal?

Cited by 52 publications

References 17 publications

Assessing perceptual change with an ambiguous figures task: Normative data for 40 standard picture sets

Assessing perceptual change with an ambiguous figures task: Normative data for 40 standard picture sets

Phenomenal Qualities and the Development of Perceptual Integration

Perceptual Reversal Guided by Integration Between Bottom-Up Input and Top-Down Feedback Over Time Course

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