Submissions tagged with perception
(3 documents)
Weight Stigma and Educators’ Perceptions of Children’s Psychological Symptoms
Objective: To investigate whether weight stigma influences educators’ judgments about psychological symptoms in children.Design: Experimental study manipulating the weight status of children ...
Received 29 July 2008 20:30 GMT; Posted 01 August 2008
Posted to: Developmental Biology
Young children do not integrate visual and haptic information
Several studies have shown that adults integrate visual and haptic information (and information from other modalities) in a statistically optimal fashion, weighting each sense according to its reli...
Received 16 January 2008 06:54 GMT; Posted 16 January 2008
Posted to: Neuroscience
A visual sense of number
Evidence exists for a non-verbal capacity to apprehend number, in humans1 (including infants2,3) and in other primates4-6. Here we show that perceived numerosity is susceptible to adaptation, along...
Received 20 November 2007 08:56 GMT; Posted 20 November 2007
Posted to: Neuroscience