Mirror, peephole and video - The role of contiguity in children's perception of reference in iconic signs
(2020) In Frontiers in Psychology 11.- Abstract
- The present study looked at the extent to which 2-year-old children benefited from information conveyed by viewing a hiding event through an opening in a cardboard screen, seeing it as live video, as pre-recorded video, or by way of a mirror. Being encouraged to find the hidden object by selecting one out of two cups, the children successfully picked the baited cup significantly more often when they had viewed the hiding through the opening, or in live video, than when they viewed it in pre-recorded video, or by way of a mirror. All conditions rely on the perception of similarity. The study suggests, however, that contiguity – i.e., the perception of temporal and physical closeness between events – rather than similarity is the principal... (More)
- The present study looked at the extent to which 2-year-old children benefited from information conveyed by viewing a hiding event through an opening in a cardboard screen, seeing it as live video, as pre-recorded video, or by way of a mirror. Being encouraged to find the hidden object by selecting one out of two cups, the children successfully picked the baited cup significantly more often when they had viewed the hiding through the opening, or in live video, than when they viewed it in pre-recorded video, or by way of a mirror. All conditions rely on the perception of similarity. The study suggests, however, that contiguity – i.e., the perception of temporal and physical closeness between events – rather than similarity is the principal factor accounting for the results. (Less)
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- Lenninger, Sara LU ; Persson, Tomas LU ; van de Weijer, Joost LU and Sonesson, Göran LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-07-14
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- contiguity, children, sign use, indexicality, semiotic resource, visual iconic media, mirror, video
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- Frontiers in Psychology
- volume
- 11
- article number
- 1622
- pages
- 14 pages
- publisher
- Frontiers Media S. A.
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- scopus:85088789909
- pmid:32760329
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01622
- project
- Precursors of Sign Use in Intersubjectivity and Imitation (PSUII)
- language
- English
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- yes
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- a7d8f0a4-f25b-4677-a176-a4c50eaf7fca
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