Publication Date:
2004-05-15
Description:
We report a perception-action dissociation in the behavior of normally developing young children. In adults and older children, the perception of an object and the organization of actions on it are seamlessly integrated. However, as documented here, 18- to 30-month-old children sometimes fail to use information about object size and make serious attempts to perform impossible actions on miniature objects. They try, for example, to sit in a dollhouse chair or to get into a small toy car. We interpret scale errors as reflecting problems with inhibitory control and with the integration of visual information for perception and action.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉DeLoache, Judy S -- Uttal, David H -- Rosengren, Karl S -- 5 T32 HD007323-18/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- HD-25271/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 May 14;304(5673):1027-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA. jdeloache@virginia.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15143286" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Cerebral Cortex/physiology
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*Child Development
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Child, Preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
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Mental Processes
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Motor Activity
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Psychomotor Performance
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*Size Perception
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Visual Perception
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
