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Perceptual development.

R N Aslin1, L B Smith

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Rochester, New York 14627.

Annual Review of Psychology
|January 1, 1988
PubMed
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Perceptual development involves sensory primitives, representations, and higher-order operations, with interactions influencing abilities. Future research aims to integrate perspectives and refine hypotheses using computational methods.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Perceptual development is examined across three structural levels: sensory primitives, perceptual representations, and higher-order operations.
  • Development within and between these levels significantly impacts perceptual abilities.
  • Distinctions between levels can be task-dependent and elusive.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and highlight the structural levels of perceptual development.
  • To explore the interplay between sensory primitives, perceptual representations, and cognitive operations.
  • To identify future research directions in perceptual development.

Main Methods:

  • Selective review of existing literature on perceptual development.
  • Analysis of developmental influences on sensory primitives and perceptual representations.

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  • Discussion of challenges in disentangling experience from higher-order cognitive effects.

    • Main Results:

    • Emergence of sensory primitives can constrain perceptual representations, with distal stimulation being primary.
    • Perceptual representations, especially for speech, undergo reorganization influenced by cognitive and linguistic processes.
    • Separating experiential effects from higher-order processes in human development is methodologically challenging.

    Conclusions:

    • Perceptual development is a multi-level process with complex interactions.
    • Future research should integrate ecological and psychophysical approaches, employ computational techniques for precise predictions, and develop methods to assess higher-order process roles.