We used primed matching to examine the microgenesis of perceptual organization for familiar (upright letters) and unfamiliar (inverted letters) visual configurations that varied in the connectedness between their line components. The configurations of upright letters were available for priming as early as 40 ms, irrespective of connectedness between their line components. The configurations of ...

Primed matching was used to examine the microgenesis of perceptual organization for line configurations that vary in the connectedness between their four line components, and for hierarchical patterns composed of four outline closed figures. The results for the line configurations showed that the configural organization of the disconnected line segments was available for priming very early, and...

THE MAIN QUESTIONS WE ASKED IN THIS WORK ARE THE FOLLOWING: Where are representations of shape, color, depth, and lighting mostly located? Does their formation take time to develop? How do they contribute to determining and defining a visual object, and how do they differ? How do visual artists use them to create objects and scenes? Is the way artists use them related to the way we perceive the...

In two experiments, visual search and speeded classification were used to study perception of hierarchical patterns among participants aged 5 to 23 years. Perception of global configurations of few-element patterns and local elements of many-element patterns showed large age-related improvements. Only minor age-related changes were observed in perception of global configurations of many-element...

I present a Universal Theory Model of Concepts (UTMC) that helps dissolve a well-known Puzzle of Concept Acquisition: how can a person ever acquire a “new” concept? The key state variables of the UTMC are illustrated in an microgenesis experiment where adult subjects attempt to learn the meaning of 3 new verbs in a “Causal Blocksworld” computer application. The puzzle is dissolved by recognizin...

Abstract The study of ageing, which received growing attention over the past 30 years, has progressively realised importance cultural, historical, and socio-economical environment for various courses ageing. However, we believe that it could be further conceptualised. First, propose to enrich through notion “landscape care” developed by geography. Second, distinction sociocultural psychologists...

This paper presents and analyzes vignettes selected from empirical data gathered in a designbased research study investigating the microgenesis of proportional reasoning through technology-mediated embodied interaction. 22 Grades 4-6 students participated in individual or paired semi-structured clinical interviews in which they engaged in problem-solving activities involving remote manipulation...

We report on a case of a French-speaking patient whose performance on reading aloud single words was characteristically deep dyslexic (in spite of preserved ability to identify letters), and whose comprehension on silent sentence reading was agrammatic and strikingly poorer than on oral reading. The first part of the study is mainly informative as regards (i) the relationship between letter ide...

Using metacontrast masking we examined the temporal dynamics of surface completion in object vision. By varying the stimulus onset asynchrony between the target object and the flanking mask(s), we obtained estimates of the time required for the entire surface contrast to fill out within the area delimited by the contours/edges of the target. The estimated speed of the filling-out process was 36...