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- Describe
The phenomenon I choose is infants’ utilization of motion to perceive shape. Infant tend to perceive shape of objects using motion. Infants have a tendency of exploiting lawful transformations within the retinal projection in order to perceive boundaries of surfaces, boundary depth of surfaces, the relationship between the figure and ground and also an objects shape (Gibson & Pick, 2000).
- Interesting
I find this phenomenon to be interesting because it tries to give an understanding of how humans perceive shape using motion at their early stages of life during infancy. The concept on how an infant perceives shape using motion raises curiosity within me that makes me want to really get a clear understanding of how that phenomenon is possible.
- Research
Motion of the object or the infant enables the infant to perceive objects and their shapes. The influence caused by motion on the infant is noted at differing levels of visual processing (Gibson & Pick, 2000). It is determined that infants have a tendency of exploiting lawful transformations within the retinal projection in order to perceive boundaries of surfaces, boundary depth of surfaces, the relationship between the figure and ground and also an object’s shape that is occluded(Gibson & Pick, 2000). Moreover, young infants uses ordinary motion while in three-dimension of the visible part of an object under occlusion like the information of the unified object (Gibson & Pick, 2000). Contrary to the development of such abilities research implies that it is until when the first year of the infant’s life ends when the infants are capable of integrating successful partial views of the object in an amalgamated representation.
- Relate/Follow up
Infants’ utilization of motion to perceive shape relates to infant’s perception of motion. It is determined that visual perception in early infancy is associated with high level of sensitive visual events such as temporal varying visual motion (Gibson & Pick, 2000). Both phenomena are associated with infant’s motion. However, it is not clearly illustrated on how the kinetic optical information is organized to produce visual input of objects so as to determine the shape of the object (Gibson & Pick, 2000). Further research has to be done to determine how the infants’ kinetic optical information is organized to produce visual input of the shape of objects.