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

ABSTRACT: 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 comp

SUBMITTER: AlAhmed F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10610448 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature