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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 6, Pages 1021-1026Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0029398
Keywords
trajectory; object identity; shape; color; occlusion
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- ESRC [RES-000-23-1341] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [RES-000-23-1341] Funding Source: researchfish
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD40432, R01 HD048733, R01 HD48733, R01 HD040432, R01 HD073535] Funding Source: Medline
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Previous work has demonstrated that infants use object trajectory continuity as a cue to the constant identity of an object, but results are equivocal regarding the role of object features, with some work suggesting that a change in the appearance of an object does not cue a change in identity. In an experiment involving 72 participants, we investigated the effects of changing object shape and color, singly and in combination, on 4-month-olds' perception of object continuity. A change in the shape of an object while it passed behind an occluder had no effect on perception of continuity, whereas a change in shape and color led to perception of discontinuity, and a change in color led to no clear percept regarding continuity or discontinuity. These results are discussed in terms of a perceptual learning model of development of object identity.
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