Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology‐Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 10

Tang, Hongsi; Song, Rujiao; Hu, Yueyan; Tian, Yongchao; Lu, Zhonghua; Chen, Lin; Huang, Yan

doi:10.1111/cdev.13629

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“…Our results provide some potential insights into the role of topology in object representation. Previous work showed that topological class is processed earlier in vision (e.g., Chen, 1985 ), earlier in development (e.g., Chen et al, 2003 ; Chien et al, 2012 ; but see also Tang et al, 2021 ), and plays a significant role in the way objects are represented, tracked, and attended to across the lifespan (e.g., Baillargeon et al, 2012 ; He et al, 2015 ; Hespos & Baillargeon, 2001a , 2001b , 2006 ; Kibbe & Leslie, 2016 ; Rips, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2005 ; Wei et al, 2019 ; Wolfe & Horowitz, 2017 ; Zhou et al, 2010 ; Zhuo et al, 2003 ). Our results suggest that objects’ topological properties may also play a role in the formation of object categories, but topology does not necessarily take precedence over surface features in the extension of labels.…”

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Competition Between Object Topology and Surface Features in Children’s Extension of Novel Nouns

2023

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Objects’ topological properties play a central role in object perception, superseding objects’ surface features in object representation and tracking from early in development. We asked about the role of objects’ topological properties in children’s generalization of novel labels to objects. We adapted the classic name generalization task of Landau et al. (1988, 1992). In three experiments, we showed children (n = 151; 3–8-year-olds) a novel object (the standard) and gave the object a novel label. We then showed children three potential target objects and asked children which of the objects shared the same label as the standard. In Experiment 1, the standard object either did or did not contain a hole, and we asked whether children would extend the standard’s label to a target object that shared either metric shape or topology with the standard. Experiment 2 served as a control condition for Experiment 1. In Experiment 3, we pitted topology against another surface feature, color. We found that objects’ topology competed with objects’ surface features (both shape and color) in children’s extension of labels to novel objects. We discuss possible implications for our understanding of the inductive potential of objects’ topologies for making inferences about objects’ categories across early development.

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Competition Between Object Topology and Surface Features in Children’s Extension of Novel Nouns

2023

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“…In a study comparing children to adults in a multisensory, audiovisual task [15], showed that older children (11 years old) performed better than younger ones (8 years old) in both accuracy and speed of learning novel stimuli, with adults outperforming both groups of children, indicating continued development beyond 11 years. [16] compared adults' and children's Topological Property (TP) processing patterns in central and peripheral vision and found that at the age of 10 years and older their processing of patterns was as fast as the adults', while children between the ages of 6-8 years were slower and showed lower priority to TP elements in peripheral vision.…”

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Visuo-haptic processing of unfamiliar shapes: Comparing children and adults

AlAhmed,

Rau,

Wallraven

2023

PLoS ONE

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The question of how our sensory perception abilities develop has been an active area of research, establishing trajectories of development from infancy that last well into late childhood and even adolescence. In this context, several studies have established changes in sensory processing of vision and touch around the age of 8 to 9 years. In this experiment, we explored the visual and haptic perceptual development of elementary school children of ages 6–11 in similarity-rating tasks of unfamiliar objects and compared their performance to adults. The participants were presented with parametrically-defined objects to be explored haptically and visually in separate groups for both children and adults. Our results showed that the raw similarity ratings of the children had more variability compared to adults. A detailed multidimensional scaling analysis revealed that the reconstructed perceptual space of the adult haptic group was significantly closer to the parameter space compared to the children group, whereas both groups’ visual perceptual space was similarly well reconstructed. Beyond this, however, we found no clear evidence for an age effect in either modality within the children group. These results suggest that haptic processing of unfamiliar, abstract shapes may continue to develop beyond the age of 11 years later into adolescence.

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Late Development of Early Visual Perception: No Topology‐Priority in Peripheral Vision Until Age 10

Cited by 2 publications

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Competition Between Object Topology and Surface Features in Children’s Extension of Novel Nouns

Competition Between Object Topology and Surface Features in Children’s Extension of Novel Nouns

Visuo-haptic processing of unfamiliar shapes: Comparing children and adults

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