What goes up may come down: perceptual process and knowledge access in the organization of complex visual patterns by young infants

@article{citeulike:3017719, abstract = {The relationship between perceptual categorization and organization processes in 3- to 4-month-old infants was explored. The question was whether an invariant part abstracted during category learning could interfere with Gestalt organizational processes. Experiment 1 showed that the infants could parse a circle in accord with good continuation from visual patterns consisting of a circle and a complex polygon. In Experiments 2 and 3, however, this parsing was interfered with by a prior category familiarization experience in which infants were presented with visual patterns consisting of a pacman shape and a complex polygon. Part 1 of Experiments 2 and 3 showed that the infants recognized the pacman as familiar, and Part 2 demonstrated that the representation of the pacman blocked the subsequent parsing of the circle. The results suggest that a cognitive system of flexible feature creation can override organizational principles with which a perceptual system may come pre-equipped.}, author = {Quinn, Paul C. and Schyns, Philippe G. }, citeulike-article-id = {3017719}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.07.001}, journal = {Cognitive Science}, month = {}, number = {6}, pages = {923--935}, posted-at = {2008-07-18 12:41:27}, priority = {2}, title = {What goes up may come down: perceptual process and knowledge access in the organization of complex visual patterns by young infants}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.07.001}, volume = {27}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3017719 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3017719 TI - What goes up may come down: perceptual process and knowledge access in the organization of complex visual patterns by young infants JF - Cognitive Science VL - 27 IS - 6 SP - 923 EP - 935 N2 - The relationship between perceptual categorization and organization processes in 3- to 4-month-old infants was explored. The question was whether an invariant part abstracted during category learning could interfere with Gestalt organizational processes. Experiment 1 showed that the infants could parse a circle in accord with good continuation from visual patterns consisting of a circle and a complex polygon. In Experiments 2 and 3, however, this parsing was interfered with by a prior category familiarization experience in which infants were presented with visual patterns consisting of a pacman shape and a complex polygon. Part 1 of Experiments 2 and 3 showed that the infants recognized the pacman as familiar, and Part 2 demonstrated that the representation of the pacman blocked the subsequent parsing of the circle. The results suggest that a cognitive system of flexible feature creation can override organizational principles with which a perceptual system may come pre-equipped. AU - Quinn, Paul AU - Schyns, Philippe PY - 2003/0// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.07.001 ER -