May 2008
Volume 8, Issue 6
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Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting Abstract  |   May 2008
Effects of reference frame on the perception of human-body orientation in infancy
Author Affiliations
  • Aki Tsuruhara
    Chuo University
  • So Kanazawa
    Shukutoku University
  • Masami Yamaguchi
    Chuo University, and PRESTO, JST
Journal of Vision May 2008, Vol.8, 953. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/8.6.953
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      Aki Tsuruhara, So Kanazawa, Masami Yamaguchi; Effects of reference frame on the perception of human-body orientation in infancy. Journal of Vision 2008;8(6):953. https://doi.org/10.1167/8.6.953.

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Abstract

We investigated the effects of reference frame on the perception of stimulus orientation in infancy. The human-body figure was used as the stimulus, because the human-body is an ecologically important stimulus. This result was compared with the results of previous studies using a grating as the stimulus (Jouen, 1985; Tsuruhara et al. 2007). We used the preferential looking technique. The stimuli were vertical and oblique human-body silhouette. The infants' looking times for each stimulus were measured. In Experiment 1, only human-body figures were presented. In Experiment 2, each human-body figure was surrounded by a vertical square, and in Experiment 3, the surrounding square was oblique. Additionally, control experiments were conducted. In the control experiments, the stimuli in each experiments were inverted. These inverted human-body figures didn't seem to be human-bodies. The results showed that, in Experiment 2 and 3, the results using the human-body figure were similar to the previous results using a grating stimulus. Vertical surrounding squares induced the preference to the oblique human-body figure and the grating over the vertical human-body figure and the grating. Oblique surrounding squares induced no preference. In the control experiments, the inverted human-body figure produced the same results. On the other hand, in Experiment 1, the results using the human-body figure differed from the previous results using a grating stimulus. Previous studies showed that infants preferred the vertical grating over the oblique grating. By contrast, in our experiment, infants preferred the oblique human-body figure over the vertical human-body figure. In the control experiments, the inverted human-body figure produced no preference. The results of this study suggest that, in infancy, the perception of human-body orientation differs from the perception of grating orientation, although the reference frame have the similar effects on these two stimuli.

Tsuruhara, A. Kanazawa, S. Yamaguchi, M. (2008). Effects of reference frame on the perception of human-body orientation in infancy [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(6):953, 953a, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/953/, doi:10.1167/8.6.953. [CrossRef]
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 This study was supported by PRESTO, JST and a Grant-in-Aid for scientific research(18000090) from JSPS.
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