The Relationship between Sitting and the Use of Symmetry As a Cue to Figure-Ground Assignment in 6.5-Month-Old Infants

Shannon Ross-Sheehy; Sammy Perone; Shaun P Vecera; Lisa M Oakes

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00759

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The Relationship between Sitting and the Use of Symmetry As a Cue to Figure-Ground Assignment in 6.5-Month-Old Infants

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The Relationship between Sitting and the Use of Symmetry As a Cue to Figure-Ground Assignment in 6.5-Month-Old Infants

Shannon Ross-Sheehy, Sammy Perone, Shaun P Vecera and Lisa M Oakes

Frontiers in psychology, Vol.7(MAY), pp.759-759

2016

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00759

PMCID: PMC4885854

PMID: 27303326

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Abstract

Two experiments examined the relationship between emerging sitting ability and sensitivity to symmetry as a cue to figure-ground (FG) assignment in 6.5-month-old infants ( N = 80). In each experiment, infants who could sit unassisted (as indicated by parental report in Experiment 1 and by an in-lab assessment in Experiment 2) exhibited sensitivity to symmetry as a cue to FG assignment, whereas non-sitting infants did not. Experiment 2 further revealed that sensitivity to this cue is not related to general cognitive abilities as indexed using a non-related visual habituation task. Results demonstrate an important relationship between motor development and visual perception and further suggest that the achievement of important motor milestones such as stable sitting may be related to qualitative changes in sensitivity to monocular depth assignment cues such as symmetry.

motor development

figure-ground segregation

infant perception

sitting ability

symmetry

Psychology

perception for action

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Title: Subtitle: The Relationship between Sitting and the Use of Symmetry As a Cue to Figure-Ground Assignment in 6.5-Month-Old Infants
Creators: Shannon Ross-Sheehy - Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee
Sammy Perone - Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
Shaun P Vecera - Department of Psychology, The University of Iowa
Lisa M Oakes - Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Frontiers in psychology, Vol.7(MAY), pp.759-759
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00759
PMID: 27303326
PMCID: PMC4885854
NLM abbreviation: Front Psychol
ISSN: 1664-1078
eISSN: 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A
Grant note: MH64020; EY022525; 1F31MH068934-01A1 / National Institutes of Health
Language: English
Date published: 2016
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984002331802771

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