Misceo G F, Hershberger W A, Mancini R L
Department of Psychology, Benedictine College, Atchison, KS 66002-1499, USA.
Percept Psychophys. 1999 May;61(4):608-14. doi: 10.3758/bf03205533.
In two size-conflict experiments, children viewed various squares through a reducing (1/2) lens while manually grasping them through a hand-concealing cloth. Then, using either vision or touch, they selected a match from a set of comparison squares. Forty 6-, 9-, and 12-year-olds participated in Experiment 1. Vision dominated the visual estimates of all three age groups; however, for the haptic estimates, the dominant modality varied developmentally: Vision dominated the 6-year-olds' haptic estimates, whereas neither modality dominated the 9-year-olds' haptic estimates, and touch dominated the 12-year-olds' haptic estimates. In Experiment 2, 24 six-year-olds were tested, as in Experiment 1; however, half of them were shown the size-distorting effects of the lens just prior to testing. Although this reduced the visual dominance of their haptic estimates, the effect was weak and short-lived. The haptic dominance seen in the data of the 12-year-olds was conspicuously absent.
在两项大小冲突实验中，孩子们透过一个缩小（1/2）的透镜观察各种正方形，同时通过一块遮住手的布手动抓取它们。然后，他们使用视觉或触觉，从一组对比正方形中选择匹配的。40名6岁、9岁和12岁的儿童参与了实验1。视觉在所有三个年龄组的视觉估计中占主导地位；然而，对于触觉估计，主导模式在发育过程中有所不同：视觉在6岁儿童的触觉估计中占主导地位，而在9岁儿童的触觉估计中两种模式都不占主导地位，触觉在12岁儿童的触觉估计中占主导地位。在实验2中，与实验1一样测试了24名6岁儿童；然而，其中一半儿童在测试前被展示了透镜的大小扭曲效果。尽管这降低了他们触觉估计中的视觉主导地位，但效果微弱且短暂。在12岁儿童的数据中明显可见的触觉主导地位并未出现。
