Cornell E H
Percept Mot Skills. 1975 Apr;40(2):651-7. doi: 10.2466/pms.1975.40.2.651.
In two experiments preschool children chose one of two test forms that looked like previously exposed distortions of a letterlike-form. In Exp. I a distance metric was defined to measure the physical discrepancy between forms. It was found that the distance relationship between distortions and particular test forms did not designate the children's choice behavior. In Exp. II the children were able to choose previously exposed distortions when particular test forms contained novel features. The results are related to distinctive feature and prototype hypotheses to account for children's performance in recognizing forms.
在两项实验中，学龄前儿童从两种测试形式中选择一种，这两种测试形式看起来像是之前呈现过的字母形状的变形。在实验一中，定义了一种距离度量来测量形式之间的物理差异。结果发现，变形与特定测试形式之间的距离关系并不能决定儿童的选择行为。在实验二中，当特定测试形式包含新特征时，儿童能够选择之前呈现过的变形。这些结果与用于解释儿童在识别形式方面表现的独特特征和原型假设相关。
