doi: 10.18178/ijssh.2024.14.6.1232
The Efficiency in the Spot the Difference Task with Illusory Pictures Solved by Preschool Children
Valeriia Karpinskaia
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Arina Dotdaeva
- Institute of Cognitive Studies, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- Manuscript received March 5, 2024
- revised April 22, 2024
- accepted May 24, 2024
- published December 25, 2024
Abstract
Twenty children, 5 to 6 years old, were offered a series of paired images. The task was to find the differences in details as quickly as possible. The images could be the same or one picture could be 10% larger than another, or, one picture could seem larger than another (visual illusion of Ponzo and Delboeuf). The time and the accuracy were measured for each pair of images. Significant differences in visual search were found for images with illusory differences, real differences in size, and identical ones. Children need more time to make the decision in the pictures illusory different in size. We did not find significant influence of illusion on the accuracy in the task. We suggest to take the factors related to the development of perception or cognition into the account, since it can lead to different results in visual search tasks for groups of children of the same age.
Keywords
- visual illusions
- visual search
- preschool children
How to Cite
Valeriia Karpinskaia and Arina Dotdaeva, "The Efficiency in the Spot the Difference Task with Illusory Pictures Solved by Preschool Children," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 306-309, 2024. https://doi.org/ 10.18178/ijssh.2024.14.6.1232
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