Infants’ integration of featural and numerical information

Integration of featural information in speech perception.

A model for the identification of speech sounds is proposed that assumes that (a) the acoustic cues are perceived independently, (b) feature evaluation provides information about the degree to which each quality is present in the speech sound, (c) each speech sound is denned by a propositional prototype in longterm memory that determines how the featural information is integrated, and (d) the s...

Factors Affecting Infants' Use of Featural Information in Object Segregation

Infants’ Use of Featural Information in the Segregation of Stationary Objects

Infants’ use of featural information (e.g. shape, color, pattern) to segregate stationary displays was investigated in three main experiments. The first experiment showed that 7.5-month-old infants, but not younger infants, were able to form a clear interpretation of a display consisting of a curved yellow cylinder and an adjacent tilted blue box as composed of two separate units. Subsequent ex...

The importance of "what": infants use featural information to index events.

Dynamic spatial indexing is the ability to encode, remember, and track the location of complex events. For example, in a previous study, 6-month-old infants were familiarized to a toy making a particular sound in a particular location, and later they fixated that empty location when they heard the sound presented alone (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2004, Vol. 133, pp. 46-62). Th...

Featural evaluation, integration, and judgment of facial affect.

The paradigm of the fuzzy logical model of perception (FLMP) is extended to the domain of perception and recognition of facial affect. Two experiments were performed using a highly realistic computer-generated face varying on 2 features of facial affect. Each experiment used the same expanded factorial design, with 5 levels of brow deflection crossed with 5 levels of mouth deflection, as well a...