Garbin C P
Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68588-0308.
Percept Psychophys. 1990 Sep;48(3):271-9. doi: 10.3758/bf03211528.
Although there has been substantial developmental research which has compared shape information processing performance under visual and touch conditions, there has been little work that bears on the shape attributes that are routinely employed, or on the similarity between shape attributes employed by adults and those employed by children. The present research was carried out to investigate the visual-touch perceptual equivalence of young children, using multidimensional scaling techniques, and to compare the visual and touch perceptual structures of this age group with those of adults. The results provide evidence for adult-like perceptions of shape among 6-year-olds, in terms of both the patterns of interstimulus similarities and the shape attributes attended to by children using each modality. In addition, it was found that children have somewhat more visual-touch perceptual equivalence than adults do.
尽管已经有大量的发展性研究比较了视觉和触觉条件下形状信息处理的表现，但对于常规使用的形状属性，或者成人和儿童所使用的形状属性之间的相似性，相关研究却很少。本研究旨在使用多维标度技术调查幼儿的视觉 - 触觉感知等效性，并将该年龄组的视觉和触觉感知结构与成人的进行比较。研究结果为6岁儿童在形状感知方面与成人相似提供了证据，这体现在刺激间相似性模式以及儿童使用每种模态时所关注的形状属性方面。此外，研究发现儿童的视觉 - 触觉感知等效性比成人略高。
